INTERVIEW
Should all French people wear masks to limit the spread of the coronavirus epidemic? This is now what the Academy of Medicine recommends, believing that cloth masks can slow the circulation of infection within the population. For Damien Abad, president of the LR group in the National Assembly, this instruction deserves a clarification from the government. "I think we should avoid contradictory injunctions," he warns in Le Grand rendez-vous , on Europe 1.
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"A discourse which fluctuates according to deficiencies"
"The government cannot say in March that the mask is useless and in April that we must encourage the wearing of the mask," denounces Damien Abad. "We need to tell the truth. The truth is what the Academy of Medicine says," he said.
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Consequently, the deputy of Ain "asks the government to clarify its doctrine, to tell the truth to the French." And to support: "I think that the French expect this from our public officials, clarity and not a discourse that fluctuates according to shortages and occasional shortages."
"Rethink everything, especially on our autonomy"
"Our health system is failing because it depends on the rest of the world," said Damien Abad, calling on "to rethink everything, especially on our autonomy, our health sovereignty". "When Xavier Bertrand left his responsibilities (in 2007, note ), there was a stock of 1.4 billion masks in France, and since then, with a change of doctrine in 2013, we have lost almost all of this stock . "
The boss of the Republicans in the Assembly also indicates that he hopes that Parliament will take up the question of "tracking", the way in which citizens could be geolocated in their movements to stem the epidemic. Damien Abad calls for the drafting of a law on the question, "to find a balance between the need to get out of confinement safely public liberties".