"Deconfinement: the cold shower"

By fixing May 11 as the end of the house arrest, Emmanuel Macron had had a word of hope. Speaking on Tuesday, Edouard Philippe wanted to hold a speech of truth. In his eyes, the health crisis is so virulent and the horizon, so strewn with unknowns that only an exit with counted steps seems conceivable. In other words, during deconfinement, containment continues. What a cold shower!

According to a strategy worthy of a puzzle from which the economy is strangely absent, school, commercial and social life should resume in small touches only, under very strict conditions. First, small classes and, later, perhaps, middle and high schools; shops, but not cafes or restaurants. As for teleworking, it will still be required. Finally, in this country steeped in Jacobinism, it will for once be up to local authorities to decide, in the last resort, who can do what. Depending on their exposure to the virus, the departments

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