Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, reporter for the weekly
L'Alceste,
began his investigation of "France in the Great Pandemic" with a meeting with Olivier Véran, the Minister in charge of Health.
Poquelin was surprised at such a commotion in public affairs, when everything seemed calm to him. In his distant country, during an epidemic, the corpses piled up on the carts and the pyres. The Minister corrected him:
'You are not mistaken, Mr. Poquelin. Every healthy Frenchman is an unwitting contaminate. Test, trace, isolate! This is the truth. Drawing, especially. Know where all those reckless French people are going. I see them on the terraces of cafes. Without a mask! Without a mask! This closes your mouth to everything, without a mask! So, I close, I prohibit, I confine. And I vaccinate, I vaccinate, I vaccinate! The vaccine, Mr. Poquelin, I don't know any other truth than that. I make a point of imposing the fifth dose before the end of the quinquennium. How much grain do you need...
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