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"Each of us is responsible for himself and for the others," said Professor Raphaël Pitti, humanitarian emergency doctor, anesthesiologist and resuscitator in reinforcement at the Metz University Hospital (Lorraine). Guest of Europe 1, Saturday evening, he reacted to the discovery of a new source of contamination in the Dordogne, imploring the French to "be vigilant each for himself and each for all."
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Covid-19 "uses us to get around"
According to him, the virus is just waiting to spread. Under these conditions, the loosening of confinement is blessed bread for the Covid-19 "which uses us to move". If, as Doctor Raphaël Pitti recalls, the virus "managed to circumnavigate the Earth in 18 days", it is not surprising that it spread from person to person during funerals having gathered dozens people, many of whom came from Portugal and Switzerland. "We have to learn to discipline ourselves as strongly as the Japanese or the South Koreans know how to do," he said, when the French could again leave their homes, starting on Monday.
What happened in Dordogne will not remain an isolated case, according to the doctor. "I think there will be no peak, but we will have hotbeds of contamination from which groups of individuals will emerge," he said, insisting that this region of France was until here rather spared from the pandemic.
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Citizenship, in addition to barrier gestures
From May 11, and despite the controls that will be put in place, it will be impossible to limit all the flows of comings and goings across the territory. It is therefore good citizenship that must be in place, in addition to barrier gestures. "Each of us is responsible for ourselves and for the others," insists Professor Raphaël Pitti. "It is in this discipline that we can limit the number of victims of the coronavirus, and we must learn to live with this virus in this discipline that we must assimilate and appropriate."
A discipline that starts with simple gestures, according to him. "Keep away from each other, no longer kiss, no longer shake hands, have your alcoholic gel on you, wash your hands as often as necessary, do not touch all the vegetables and eggs in a supermarket ... ", he lists.
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Recently, a number of political leaders have succeeded each other at the Assembly desk to prepare for deconfinement, without this desk being disinfected. However, Professor Raphaël Pitti believes that political leaders have a significant role to play in this learning. "The example must start from the top, it is necessary that all those responsible begin to set the good example through their travels and in their private life," added the doctor. "It is truly a new discipline".