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"Faced with the coronavirus, a labyrinth of bureaucratic procedures"

2020-04-19T20:28:10.477Z


The editorial of Figaro, by Yves Thréard.


The decision on March 17 to place the entire population under house arrest was brutal. Fear in the stomach, faced with a virus of which they ignored everything, or almost, the French have bowed to it with good grace. It is now around May 11 that their eyes are turned. In a completely different context, much more volcanic. For a month, controversies have been legion and the assurance that the executive power knows where it is going is far from being shared. For Emmanuel Macron and the government, the door is narrow. They have three weeks left to clear the horizon, remove doubts, allay fears.

We thought that Edouard Philippe, on Sunday, was going to do it. The ace! At the end of his very talkative press conference, an impression of deja-vu, deja-heard prevailed. Confinement certainly gives encouraging results, but we knew it. Research is certainly working hard to find a vaccine or a drug, but we imagined it. Admittedly, the State does not drop the employees

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Source: lefigaro

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