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Coronavirus: "Collective responsibility"

2020-04-29T20:02:25.143Z


The editorial of Figaro, by Vincent Trémolet de Villers.


Agent Longtarin, the famous police officer of Gaston Lagaffe, will end up getting lost. After the fines for lack of departure exemption, the Secretary of State for Transport added to the strains of his ticket book a new sanction: from May 11, transport users may be penalized if they do not wear mask. The citizen, good apple, to whom it was explained that the mask was useless, then that one was in desperate need of it, then that he could make it himself, should not be, like the public authorities , late on ignition. He will wear his mask. The fact remains that the passion for fines as well as fiscal compulsion are once again part of French genius.

To be derisory, this anecdote sheds light on a paradox which for weeks crosses our social body. The French have long understood the threat posed by the virus. Neither in denial nor in psychosis, they never blame the powers

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Source: lefigaro

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