Headlines: "Let's stop the mistakes!"
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French Minister of Health Olivier Véran, during the information point on the coronavirus epidemic, September 23, 2020. AFP / POOL / Eliot Blondet
By: Sébastien Duhamel
11 min
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“
Raoult, scientific council, government: Faced with the epidemic, let's stop the errors!
".
A title that slams like an injunction on
L'Express
this week.
And the editorial which accompanies it does not mince its words: “
While there are more than 32,000 deaths from Covid-19, the lies around the masks, the tests, and the inability to set up a prevention are unforgivable.
But these imperities
, continues
L'Express
,
do not allow denying the reality of the threat as do the
"
r
insurers
".
These merchants of hope, "
Raoult, Toubiana, Toussain ...
" The magazine delivers an investigation of these researchers who "
assure that the epidemic is over and that the authorities deliberately scare us
”.
But, opposite, to qualify,
L'Express
also relays the voice of Professor Caumes, infectious disease specialist at Pité-Salpêtrière in Paris.
He regrets that we would run "
after the epidemic instead of being in anticipation
", and "
he spares no one
, warns
L'Express, nor those who claim that the crisis is over, nor the government
".
"
Are they up to the task?
"
But
L'Express
and Professor Caumes are not the only ones to take the threat seriously.
"
The second wave is here
" posted this morning
Le Journal du dimanche
.
“
The tide is rising
,” he
explains
, “
the alert threshold is approaching in intensive care, in Paris in particular.
The patients are certainly less numerous than in March, but the arms and the beds are lacking, ”
warns the
JDD,
which also publishes an interview with epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet, member of the scientific council.
He invites "
to limit dinner with friends and family meals
".
"
Do not expect everything from the government,
" he tells us.
For its part, the front page of Le
Point
was already wondering this week: “
Are they up to the task?
», Showing Emmanuel Macron surrounded by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health.
And the answer starts badly, because from the first lines, the article explains to us that "
the
epidemic starts again with a vengeance but at the top of the State, the errors multiply.
"
Here, the epidemiologist Catherine Hill notes, too, that"
our government runs behind the virus
. "
However, interviewed a few pages later, the Minister of Health affirms precisely that the situation today, the resurgence of contaminations, was "
expected
".
Olivier Véran once again dismisses the idea of a new generalized confinement but, anyway, "
the restrictive measures
are not a punishment
" he underlines.
A second wave as a "
stress test
"
Challenges
is also concerned about this resurgence of the epidemic.
"
Facing the wall of a second wave
", headlines the economic magazine, which sees here a "
stress test
".
On the one hand, for the French, “
morale damage
” tells us the article.
Supporting graphs and figures, he observes that confidence in the future is declining, and that a certain blockage is starting to be felt with regard to teleworking.
And a test for the economy as well.
The magazine notably delivers a dossier on the
“
mask business
” which is “
doing badly
”.
Yes "
it is also a market
", we read.
However, “French
manufacturers, importers, distributors are disillusioned today
”.
Large retailers, for example, "
stuck with stocks bought at a high price
".
They are now "
engaged in a ruinous competitive war over this apples product
".
However, more broadly, the mask may be "
good for the GDP
", considers
Challenges
.
"
The lies and truths of the GDP
"
But we can put it into perspective because another economic magazine tackles this week "
the lies and truth
" of this famous GDP.
Gross domestic product is “
the king of the economy
” recalls
Les Echos Week-End
, but it is “
shaken up like never before and its reign more and more contested
”.
In essence, the weekly traces the history of GDP, since its first use by Englishman William Petty in the 17th century.
And he takes up criticisms addressed for several years.
Those linked to the fact that the GDP does not take into account "
two essential dimensions of modern life
", namely well-being and environmental responsibility.
Les Echos
also recall that Bhutan has already taken the plunge: in 2008, "
the small country nestled in the Himalayas
" included the notion of "
gross national happiness
" in its constitution.
This is common sense!
Marianne and her dossier on separatism
Also read this week, a file by
Marianne
on separatism.
While Emmanuel Macron recently called for fighting against all separatism, by explicitly mentioning Islamism, well, “
there is not only the Islamist threat,
”
Marianne
tells us
.
The magazine denounces "
the other separatisms which lead us to civil war
".
Slightly pessimistic,
Marianne
alerts here pell-mell on "
the identitarians of the right and the left, the feminists hating the men and the totalitarian leftists
".
Slightly pessimistic
Marianne
?
Downright alarmist in the end ...
"
The man of the presidents tells
"
In
L'Obs
, finally, "
The man of the presidents tells
".
A title that announces a four-page interview with Jean-Pierre Jouyet.
He who “
served Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Hollande, before being Emmanuel Macron's mentor
,
”
recalls
L'Obs
.
And for the latter, whom he calls his “
protégé
” since 2005, Jean-Pierre Jouyet is not tender.
He denounces the rightfulness of Emmanuel Macron, while Jouyet knew him "
more to the left
" than him in the past.
He also balances "
the errors
" of François Hollande.
But it must be said that, if Jean-Pierre Jouyet speaks, it is probably because he publishes a book, “
l'Envers du décor
”
.
So we are not going to do more promotion for him,
L'Obs
and others are already doing it very well.
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