In the News: Relax!

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By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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Yes but not too quickly ... This is how we could sum up the state of mind of the press this morning. 

"  Today, May 11, begins the truce of the containers , notes Liberation . Are we moving on , the newspaper wonders, through the effect of this semi-freedom, from being put in the shade in the light ? Far from there. Whether it is green or red, France is in fact entering a gray area , notes Liberation . Half free, half constrained. Until now enclosed between four walls, it will now be enclosed by a thousand precautions. Contacts resume, provided they do not take place, individuals get closer, provided they keep their distance. It is a meticulous police of the bodies that we will have to respect to avoid this "second wave"which, it is said, is likely to form offshore before surging among us. And despite everything, all of this will be felt as a liberation.  "

"  We must not, on this Monday, overplay the de-confinement !" , insists L'Union . This is only a step, a prudent easing, in the management of a dangerous and still powerful pandemic in the world, by asking citizens to appropriate all the tools most capable of protecting them from Covid-19. (…) In short, it is above all not a return to life before but the experimentation of a collective life in a still limited perimeter and under close surveillance to ensure that the recommendations made have become automatic mechanisms. accepted and shared.  "

Risk taking ...

"  This May 11th in the air of liberation is indeed only a stage ," adds La Dépêche . First because the epidemic, lessened is still there, we saw it again this weekend with new sources of contamination in New Aquitaine. It will therefore be necessary to remain vigilant, to show good citizenship and to continue to observe this social distancing which weighs on our vision of social, friendly and family relations, in order to avoid this second wave which many epidemiologists fear.  "

Finally, Pointe Sud-Ouest , “  in this strange year 2020, this first day of the rest of our life promises to be at least as difficult for our leaders as for all French people. For the former, the time for uniform measurements is over, basically the easiest to impose, place for hand sewing. For the latter, the era of the cocoon certainly more or less easy to bear, here is the time for risk-taking, the return to a life which should be normal and which however will not be.  "

Long-term telework ?

Among the practices imposed by confinement, there is one that should continue: it is teleworking ... This is what Le Figaro notes  : "  They were not regulars working at home, but on March 16 last, with the announcement of confinement, many French people were forced to do so. After eight weeks of remote work, the results are rather positive : 73% of teleworkers wish to continue, after this transitional period, on a regular or ad hoc basis. This new method of organization, which in two months has proven to be effective, opens up new perspectives in tertiary activities.  "

And Le Figaro to wonder: "  Relation to work, transport, housing ... the surprise guest of the confinement that is telework authorizes, it is true, to think all kinds of boldness. It remains to prove their virtues. Will employees really gain by trading their boss for algorithms ? Will they be stronger when they are dispersed, and happier, trapped in a family circle whose borders they will have a hard time preserving ? It is also not impossible to forget that teleworking only concerns a part of the French , Le Figaro still points out , and that the "front line" trades , the crisis of which has underlined the indispensable character , are excluded from it. nobility ; those who, precisely, have reminded our memories of the meaning of work.  "

Tribute to those on the front line

Precisely, Le Parisien pays tribute this morning to all these frontline workers ... "  If we restart, it's thanks to them!"  “, Says Le Parisien on the first page. “  On the front line, there were and still are caregivers. Loyal to the job for weeks, often on the brink of breakdown, they will remain the heroes of this health crisis.  "

There are also all these workers in the shadows, Le Parisien underlines  : “The delivery men, the police, the garbage collectors, the associations more mobilized than ever with the poorest, or even the thousands of seamstresses who devoted themselves to making masks.  "

Finally, we come back to Liberation with this long report by the writer and journalist Jean-Paul Mari on these caregivers on the front line: “  Heroes, soldiers, last of the ropes promoted first, the qualifiers were not lacking. Only now they are afraid again , he says. Again ? Yes. But something else. At the time of deconfinement, when the epidemic has subsided, when the brazen law of the economy will impose its diktat, will it always be up to health to pay the bill ? Are we still going to be forgotten ? Will we have to learn to live on our knees as before? Or suffering, certainly, but standing, as we lived in the time of the great fear of the Covid?  "

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