"We must first limit visits to the maximum," insisted Emmanuel Macron Friday, during a visit to a retirement home in the capital. The President of the Republic, in fact, invited the French not to go to these establishments welcoming "the people who are most vulnerable to" the coronavirus.
A double-edged sword for Pascal Champvert, president of the Association of Directors for the Service of the Elderly (AD-PA). "Limiting even more is absolutely not desirable for people because not seeing the people you love for three months is unbearable", he denounces on Europe 1 before admitting that this question arises in view of "the very particular period which is that in which we are. But it deserves to be examined from the angle of benefit and risk".
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"The benefit, of course, is that if visits are suspended there is little likelihood that the virus will enter an establishment," said Pascal Champvert. But he adds: "The risk is that we can have people who, for two or three months, have no visit." "Would you agree not to see the people you love, your parents, your family, your friends for three months? I'm not sure," he finally concludes.