LE FIGARO. - France has been confined for almost a month and we do not see the outcome of the crisis. What to do?
Jean-Pierre CHEVÈNEMENT. - The coronavirus epidemic reminds us that history is tragic. It is not " an ultimatum of nature " as Nicolas Hulot said. This is in no way the consequence of global warming. This pandemic is one of the most pleasant aspects of globalization left to itself. Unpredictable by its suddenness, its brutality, the almost universal nature of its expansion, this pandemic reveals our inability to cope in the absence of a vaccine. I would add that it highlights the dependencies that France, among others, has allowed to create by transferring half of its industry, notably pharmaceutical and medical, to the other side of the world.
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The only strategy I see is the multiplication of tests, tracing, confinement of patients and people at risk while waiting for a year or two to produce a vaccine.
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