The majority of European countries have not, to date, reconfined their entire population!

Agnès Verdier-Molinié is director of the iFRAP Foundation (liberal think-tank).

Michaël Peyromaure is head of the urology department at Hôpital Cochin and publishes “Hôpital, what we never told you…” (Ed. Albin Michel, 240 p. € 18.90).

Panic seems to have won.

Again, we are waiting for new announcements "

" as we say now.

Supposedly doing like “

” are doing?

But, to this day, when we look into the detail, apart from Ireland, no country around us has really confined its entire population again.

In Spain?

restaurants are open until midnight.

Admittedly, Madrid and a few other Spanish cities are partially reconfigured, but in these same cities, restaurants, bars, hotels are still open and close… at 11pm.

In Berlin, the curfew begins at 11 p.m.

In the United Kingdom, shops selling food for consumption on the premises must close at 10 p.m. and teleworking, recommended, is not compulsory.

Only Wales has re-confined its entire population.

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France has already, during the spring confinement, applied a much harsher and stricter confinement than in most of the countries of the Union.

We are already at 10 points of loss of national wealth while the Germans who have confined less than us, who have not stopped their production chains, who have allowed so-called "non-essential" sectors to operate will be at -5 , 8% of GDP.

In the euro zone, the average is -7.9%.

Do we want to go deeper into the recession?

Our businesses will not support it and neither will our jobs.

Unlike the previous confinement, no activity should be completely stopped.

Everything must keep turning.

And no distinction between essential or non-essential activity should be made.

Unlike the previous confinement, no activity should be completely stopped.

Neither shops, nor restaurants, nor public transport, nor the post office, nor industry nor services.

Everything must keep turning.

And no distinction between essential or non-essential activity should be made.

For each of us, the business in which we work, or the association or company, whatever it is, is essential.

Who can determine what is and what is not essential in our economy?

Politicians, unions, doctors?

It would be very presumptuous.

It would still be an avenue for online platforms.

Continuity of work must be the common thread of public decisions.

Telework incentive yes but no brake on non-

activities

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France is not made only of geeks or traders who can work remotely.

France is not made only of incumbents of positions for life who do not fear unemployment.

France is also made up of small traders, very small businesses, small businesses, liberal professions who are already over-indebted and who could not bear a new stop on their activity.

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Needless to say that the State will provide aid and cover certain current expenses.

These additional aids will in no way prevent or prevent the disintegration of our entrepreneurial ecosystem.

They would only hide poorly the cracks that are already cracking our economy.

Let's choose work first.

This would not be possible because the sanitary must take precedence, in the name of the occupancy rate of the resuscitation beds which we do not even understand how it is calculated?

2,918 patients with Covid in intensive care beds, does Public Health France tell us?

But then we understand that we mix all types of beds in this statistic.

That many of these patients are actually in intensive care beds or in continuous monitoring unit beds.

That is, according to figures from DREES 2018, 18,917 beds in mainland France across all health establishments and not 5,800 beds as displayed.

What is the real occupancy rate of intensive care beds today?

How to understand that the call of resuscitators to train their colleagues of which this is not the specialty has not yet been heard?

In addition, should the number of deaths in nursing homes not be dissociated from the number of deaths in hospital to avoid, as for October 27, a catastrophic display of 523 deaths during the day, while the number of deaths in hospital? hospital is 290 and that the number of deaths in Ehpad is a compilation of data over several days?

Should we not also monitor the total number of deaths from all causes, comparing with previous years?

Where is the transparency on these statistics which are and will be decisive in the new decisions of the government?

The classification of a department in red or scarlet is based in particular on two indicators: the number of new positive cases greater than more than 250 per 100,000 inhabitants (incidence rate) and the occupancy rate of intensive care beds greater than 30% .

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In addition, and this is to be welcomed, the evolution of treatments (by antithrombotic and high flow oxygen without intubation) decreases the need for intensive care beds and associated personnel.

On October 2, the government spokesperson explained: "

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How is it that retired doctors and nurses are not already requisitioned?

Where has the health reserve gone?

How is it that home care specialists who know how to oxygenate patients with telemonitoring are not more involved in health decisions at this time?

How is it that retired doctors and nurses are not already requisitioned?

Where did the health reserve already largely underutilized in March-April go?

How to understand that the call of resuscitators to train their colleagues of which this is not the specialty has not yet been heard?

City medicine, hospitals, private clinics, follow-up care, home hospitalization, home care, the solution is based on the entire chain of care and not just the hospital as our hospital system systematically makes us think (or believe). center.

What is the strategy since the first wave?

Are we going to sacrifice the French economy on the altar of coordination and anticipation problems in our healthcare system?

Have we really come to this?