When we speak of hope today, it is not one of the three theological virtues necessary for the salvation of Christians (with faith and charity) that comes to mind, but more prosaically the "hope of life".
We have our feet on the ground and want to stay there as long as possible.
This is why the Covid-19 epidemic is causing such dread.
The 40,169 deaths that we deplore (as of November 7) in France, including about 30,000 during the "first wave", paralyze us.
And since September some 10,000 additional people have been victims, the “second wave”, as Emmanuel Macron calls it, who therefore fears a third.
Otherwise the President of the Republic would have spoken of "second wave" (the second and last).
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However, paradoxically, “life expectancy”, the term used by demographers in everyday language to designate the theoretical duration which is “promised” to us, is hardly affected by the excess mortality linked to the epidemic.
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