They ask me in the squad why

Macron

has once again confined the French: "Was the curfew not working?"

"Was it not respected?"

I tell you.

The French president opened the course in September with a somewhat normal motto: "Living with the virus."

In October he devised red and scarlet zones,

the "gradual and territorialized response

.

"

Then curfew.

First in Paris and eight metropolises, then for 46 million French people.

The curfew was summed up in a motto from May 68, "

métro, boulot, dodo

" (metro, curro, piltra), a synthesis of the worker's routine, oblivious to the good things in life.

In 2020, it designates the government's attempt to limit social contacts.

But the "reluctant Gauls" (which Macron once said) sought him out to do what they like the most, stay on a terrace.

Once the bars were closed, the places where people were to eat remained open.

This sign still hangs in the

Beaumarchais

brasserie

: "Let's adapt to our government: carry on your day by two hours."

After the title, the life plan: "7:00: Up, to work! (And avoid rush hour in the subway); 16:30: End of work; 17:00: Debut of the aperitif (

happy hour

of 16:00 to 18:00); 19:00: Start of dinner; 20:00: A last digestive (we also have infusions); 20:30: End of the evening. We leave ... 21:00: ¡ At home! 9:30 pm: A la piltra zzzz ".

The data on the curfew effect are conclusive: It has not been enough.

E

n four towns flattened curve contagions.

In the other five, Paris among them, it only slowed it down

.

The Pasteur Institute calculated that in mid-November there would be more than 9,000 covid patients in the ICU in France (the peak of April 8, 7,148).

That is when Macron's fear of whether his countrymen would accept more restrictions must have given way to panic to go down in history as an undertaker.

"My responsibility is to protect all French people. Despite the controversies, despite the difficult decisions to be made, I take it on in front of you," he said Wednesday.

The curfew was late and weak.

And the Gauls provided dinners and drinks.

Evident.

Macron seeks a "brutal halt to contagions."

Objective, to go down from 40,000 daily infections to 5,000 (on Saturday, 35,641).

There is no other, friends: subway, curro and piltra.

And garlic and water

.

That is, no social leisure, you have to put up with reading, virtual contacts and soccer on TV.

This I said to my crew.

I share it in good faith with all those who govern us.

Less anger and to the cut, stop the second wave

.

Let's not be the worst again.

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