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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Anti-covid measures: the moralizing temptation"

2020-10-16T18:16:00.715Z


CHRONICLE - From one society to another, the measures are not exactly the same but they are accompanied everywhere by a similar rhetoric: faced with the carelessness of the population, health order should be restored.


Almost everywhere, in the face of the second wave of the pandemic, Western companies are embarking on a more or less extensive reconfinement enterprise, which they are however reluctant to name as such in certain cases, to avoid traumatizing a population affected by the latter. month.

We see it in particular in the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

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In Quebec, the authorities present this period as a great collective challenge of 28 days to end the epidemic.

The restaurants are closed, the theaters too, and individuals are no longer allowed to receive anyone in their homes.

In France, Emmanuel Macron gives himself a martial air by decreeing a curfew of several weeks, in addition to announcing that one way or another, the health measures will continue at least until the summer of 2021 .

One thing is striking: if, from one company to another, the measures are not exactly the same, however, they are accompanied everywhere by a similar rhetoric: before

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Source: lefigaro

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