Bars, restaurants still closed, and "non-essential" shops with, and everyone at home, it could be on the program in France if a strict re-containment were decreed by the government.
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In France, the number of hospitalizations for coronavirus cases is on the rise again.
And the English variant of Covid-19, which makes the disease more contagious, has appeared in France.
While England and Scotland have just opted for total reconfinement, the idea is becoming more and more pressing in France.
Contaminations that do not decrease.
Hospitalizations that are on the rise.
A feared epidemic rebound the day after the holidays.
The British variant [which makes the virus more contagious] which has appeared in France.
A vaccination campaign deemed too slow.
And about fifteen departments placed under curfew from 6 p.m.
If everyone wished their loved ones a happy new year 2021 free of Covid-19, the explosive cocktail of this return makes the coronavirus heavier than ever.
What to stir up the rumor of a third confinement (we do not have more information than you, I promise!), While at the end of December, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, explained that this solution was not excluded if the situation "were to worsen".
If the French men and women submitted to it en masse in the spring, the reconfinement at the end of October had much more difficulty in passing.
So, the possibility of a third confinement, the readers of
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welcome it with very mixed feelings.
"I am tired of paying for others"
The idea of doing it a third time is very hard for some.
“I'm 22 years old and it would be unbearable,” says Romain.
I had a terrible time with the first confinement, which exhausted me psychologically.
The second was easier because I went to work, but my daily life was heavy.
Then a third would be experienced as a punishment!
I did not celebrate Christmas with my relatives and friends and I deprived ourselves of seeing people at risk, our own grandparents, while others absolutely wanted to celebrate Christmas.
I'm tired of paying for others, it's time to come to individual responsibility.
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Antoine is quite simply against: "Containment is the method used seven hundred years ago for the Black Death, it is obsolete."
We should be able to do better, trace where people are contaminated, rather than reconfine without being effective ”.
Same credo for David: "it is essential to list the possible alternatives, such as improving respect for wearing a mask, organizing massive testing, or even making telework compulsory for vulnerable people".
Especially since, considers Petre, the critical health and economic situation "proves that the containment measures especially punish young people".
"I couldn't bear to be confined again"
For many, it is the idea of remaining isolated that is unbearable.
Morally, I will not hold, Julie crashes.
We are not made to be locked up.
I haven't seen my family, who live on the other side of France, for a year, I can't take it anymore.
I am a caregiver, and many colleagues and residents have been affected by Covid-19, but there it is!
We will have to live with it and that's it ”.
A weariness that also feels Rosy, mother of a 34-year-old autistic son.
"The first confinement, then the cancellation of his holidays in an adapted structure, as well as his support in Adapei (Departmental association of parents and friends of the mentally handicapped) which was reduced: all that makes his tocs and anxieties have multiplied, she says.
I couldn't bear to be confined again ”.
Arlette neither.
“I'm old and I live alone, it's already difficult.
But if I can no longer even go see my children and grandchildren, and all my movements are limited, it is untenable.
There are enough of all these measures which, under the pretext of preventing us from dying, prevent us from living!
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"A third confinement is inevitable and necessary"
While re-containment is not yet on the agenda, several neighboring countries have taken the plunge.
This is the case for England and Scotland.
So, inevitably, in France, the idea is gaining ground, and some are ready to submit to it a third time.
"Considering the disastrous management of the health crisis by the government, I think it is inevitable and necessary", estimates Alice, student.
Like Magali: "We must reduce contamination and it is the only thing that works".
"Better to be confined than to mourn the dead," says Xavier.
An opinion shared by Céline, saleswoman.
“I see people pass by every day who refuse the mask or the gel.
And with the New Year's Eve on December 31 and the underground parties, there is no other solution ”.
A reconfinement to which Alexandre is ready to submit, "but it will be the last one I accept," he warns.
I couldn't bear to be re-fined in four months because too few people at risk would have refused the vaccination ”.
"A prison sentence"
So even if it means playing the reconfinement card, the most pragmatic prescribe not to take half measures.
"No offense to the undisciplined - that we do not sanction enough - I am for a third total confinement of a month and more if necessary", points Johny.
As long as it is matched with "a border closure", adds Sabrina.
Because "how to get out of this pandemic if all day long, transport is crowded but at 8pm, you have to be at home?
We must stop with the curfews ", judge Amina, who thus proposes" a total confinement, strict like the first, once and for all, with closure of schools and nurseries ".
"There are enough to respect the instructions when others allow themselves to transgress them," says Dimitri.
For him, the solution is quite found: "we must sanction with a prison sentence and a six-figure fine any recurrence of non-compliance with confinement.
The simple fear of being heavily sanctioned would calm more than one!
Eulalie is less severe.
And more philosopher: "You might as well re-define yourself now once and for all, do yoga and cook, to find a normal life in a few months, right?
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There is no indication that a re-containment is on the menu for the government, but a health defense council will be held this Wednesday morning, on the eve of a press conference by Jean Castex on the vaccination strategy.
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