Headlines: what will the president say tonight?
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French President Emmanuel Macron during the Defense Council of November 12, 2020 at the Elysée Palace in Paris Thibault Camus POOL / AFP / Archives
By: Frédéric Couteau Follow
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This is the frequently asked questions this morning in the dailies ...
"
Where are we going, Monsieur Macron
?"
», Launches
Le Courrier Picard
.
"
Soon a little more freedom
?"
“Asks
L'Aisne Nouvelle
.
"
What course for Christmas
?
Asks
L'Union
.
“
Suspended from advertisements,
” notes
L'Ardennais
.
“
Macron expected as the Messiah,
” sighs
La Provence
.
In any case, "
sacred puzzle
", reports
Southwest
.
Indeed, the essential question is how to get out of confinement and not have to face a new wave of contamination?
Well, we have to go slowly, "
little by little
" for
Liberation
;
"
Gradually
", for
Le Parisien
, "
by step
s", for
Le Figaro
.
Already, there is a word to ban, points out
Le Monde
: “
Do not call it deconfinement anymore.
Rather speak of
"stress relief",
to use a term in vogue at the top of the state.
This evening at 8 p.m., Emmanuel Macron must therefore deliver a new televised address to present the strategy of the executive in the coming months in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic.
The opportunity to give the French a
"course"
over the long term and to draw them a corner of blue sky.
"
Three steps
So,
Le Monde
understands, Emmanuel Macron must announce a three-step plan: “
The short term, first.
The government is preparing to put an end to the nagging controversy over the closure of small businesses.
The latter will be able to reopen
"around December 1",
assured the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, on Saturday.
»As well as places of worship and perhaps also certain cultural places.
“
Bars and restaurants, on the other hand, will remain closed for the time being.
(…)
The medium term, now
, continues
Le Monde
.
Emmanuel Macron must specify during his speech the way in which he envisages the trips of the French for the end of the year celebrations.
If the constraints were relaxed, its application would begin around December 20.
(…)
Finally, there is the long term
”: with the vaccination campaign:“
Which populations will be targeted as a priority
?
Where can we get vaccinated
?
The High Authority for Health is due to issue a final opinion on this campaign in mid-December, which will start in early 2021.
"
The truth !
"
So no question of a spectacular announcement
, sighs
Liberation
- even if Emmanuel Macron should record the reopening of so-called non-essential shops -
and certainly no question of decreeing a new deconfinement, which, according to medical experts, would risk today d 'fail just as much as the first.
But then what to say
?
The truth, quite simply,
exclaims
Liberation
,
which viewers can guess anyway
: our vaccination campaign is not ready, our understanding of the situation is limited, we have to hold out for a long time.
(…)
What else
?
Christmas obviously, which will not be a Christmas like the others
, is still
Liberation
.
Can we consider family reunions with grandparents, often linked to crowded trains, endless hugs, shared meals, heated discussions without masks in more than one sense
?
Obviously, no.
"
Find the right note
So for
Le Figaro
, the president will have to be very convincing… “The
whole stake for Emmanuel Macron is to prevent the wave of suspicion from breaking.
Get rid, first, of the rhetoric of fear, which infuriates more than it breeds worry.
Then describe with precision and height the strategy for living with the virus until the vaccine arrives.
Finally show the horizon of rediscovered freedoms
(their suspension only lasted too long).
Emmanuel Macron knows it: a speech will not dispel the unease that runs through our democracy.
But when the note is right, even the most skeptical listeners.
"
Better insulate ...
Finally, this appeal in
Le Parisien
, launched by the powerful association France Assos Santé, which brings together 85 associations of health users: "
To achieve deconfinement, the authorities must create the complete conditions for the systematic isolation of patients and their contact cases, says France Assos Santé.
This requires the provision of dedicated places, but also the guarantee of salary or financial compensation for all the people who have to take shelter for a few days.
Finally, the creation of a network of volunteers to support those who need it: shopping, picking up medicines…
(…) "Until now, points out geneticist Axel Khan, isolation has been the poor relation. of the triptych test-tracer-isolate. We must now make it a success. The more we support it, the more it will work. Ultimately, the end of yo-yo games with the virus… ""
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