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"Let’s choose responsible freedom rather than prohibition and surveillance!"

2020-05-04T18:18:07.734Z


TRIBUNE - The French should not accept to be placed under guardianship like minors and forget what means political freedom and good citizenship, argues the essayist Frédéric Lazorthes *.


Against the coronavirus, France lost the initial battle, that which was fought between January and March. On March 16, Emmanuel Macron, to halt the progression of the pandemic, announced an unprecedented decision: the suspension for all citizens and throughout the territory of the freedom to circulate outside their home, except for imperative or essential professional reasons , each trip must be justified by a certificate to be presented to the police authorities. Even mourning was prohibited.

Under the shock of its vulnerability, France was resigned to adapt, in the face of the pandemic, the Chinese way, the "lockdown" , whose effectiveness rests on a conception and an exercise of antinomic authority with what we are. Even if today even half of humanity is, to varying degrees, under the regime of great confinement, how can we not see in it the sign of a terrible collective defeat? If every death rings like death, every day of confinement

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Source: lefigaro

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