White coats and gray suits, epidemiologists and emergency doctors, virus experts and committee chairmen ... when Emmanuel Macron, at the end of January, chose not to inflict on France the ordeal of a third confinement, all of them marched on the sets television to express their concern and (mezza voce) their disapproval.
Jean Castex had his look of bad days;
Olivier Véran, black eye and frowning eyebrow.
The president's decision, we were told, was a “gamble”.
Understand: a risky bet, too risky.
The variants in ambush would not, it seems, allow us to profit for long from this too “political” reprieve to be scientifically honest.
Reconfinement, of course, would not be cut off;
and it would be all the more harsh if we took too long ...
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But often varying varies, very crazy who relies on it!
Fifteen days later, not only has the epidemic not skyrocketed but, as the variant (s) gain ground, it even seems - caution, caution
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