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The difficult consent to deconfinement

2020-05-05T18:24:36.441Z


DECRYPTION - How can we explain today that confinement would suddenly become a trap, undermining our future?


The hand of political leaders trembles as the sketch of May 11 begins. If at first the executive opted for radical containment - with the broad support of the French -, the economic consequences quickly called it to order. Despite the absence of a vaccine and effective treatment, but with a decline in the epidemic, the time has come. No matter the skepticism of the French who fear for their health and struggle to follow the erratic doctrines of power, economic pressure is untenable. Social Security, a French national jewel, is already bending dangerously with a deficit of 41 billion in 2020, happily beating the 2008 record (28 billion).

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Behind these cold figures - which some might put into perspective - there is a social disorder and its share of silent victims. However, returning to work is not obvious in a society that knows itself to be at war but that does not tolerate being confronted with it. The confinement, although binding,

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Source: lefigaro

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