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Non-containment: did Macron win his bet?

2021-02-15T19:37:40.799Z


ANALYSIS - More than fifteen days after the Head of State's decision, the level of contamination has not exploded as scientists feared. The president hopes to avoid further confinement but keeps the card in his pocket in the event of an outbreak of cases.


Now is not the time to close accounts.

But still ... While the health crisis has been raging for almost a year in France, Emmanuel Macron is on the way to winning the bet launched nearly three weeks ago, alone against all, and in particular scientists: not to reconfine the country facing the threat of Covid-19 variant viruses.

At the time, it was necessarily risky.

It was a political gamble, despite all the precautions we had taken in saying that we could not exclude a reconfinement if the situation required it

, confides a minister close to the President of the Republic.

If it had lasted a week or fifteen days, then we could have said what we wanted, the result is that we would have been wrong.

On the other hand, if we manage to last a month, then it is different.

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More than fifteen days after the choice not to reconfine, that is to say the time it takes to observe the effects of his decision on the health situation, the result is there.

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Source: lefigaro

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