Every morning, Nicolas Beytout analyzes the political news and gives us his opinion.
This Wednesday, he is interested in doctors who tour the media to say everything and its opposite concerning the pandemic.
Some want to put pressure on the executive but do not realize that their words have a direct impact on the morale of the French.
Finally, the third confinement will wait ...
Before making his decision, Emmanuel Macron wants to have in hand the results of 15 days of curfew at 6 p.m.
It is therefore this weekend that the countdown will be restarted.
For a probable decision next week?
Exactly.
What this postponement of one week reflects is both Emmanuel Macron's desire to be as close as possible to the reality of the epidemic, and the fear of seeing the French reluctant in the face of a third confinement.
Because the morale of the population is severely tested, we oscillate between hope and despair, we go from vaccine to variant, in a permanent instability.
The Head of State is also right to be concerned about the psychology of the French.
Because in the end, it is he who will be held responsible, who will have to account politically for what he has decided on the health plan.
It is him, even if he is not the only one to count.
And who else?
The doctors ?
But yes, the doctors.
Those who spend part of their time in the media, morning, noon and night.
More often than not, their word is useful.
But what about those who say white one day, black the next day, who call for urgent confinement one evening and recognize the next day that it can wait?
What about those who are urging a total blockade until summer or even September, or those who are now suggesting victory over the virus would be impossible?
They have doubts, very well;
the virus is mutant, too bad.
But they should realize, these media-doctors with changing certainties, that the morale of the French is indexed on their varying opinions.
And that the indecision of policies is subject to their random prescriptions.
Except that in a health crisis, it seems impossible to do without the advice of doctors.
It's impossible.
But we have to understand how we got there.
During the first confinement, when Emmanuel Macron gave absolute priority to health, whatever the cost, he linked his decisions to the opinion of doctors.
Their word then became political, their opinions motivated the shutdowns of entire sectors of the economy, the blockade of schools and the ban on going wherever we wanted.
Since the second confinement, more light, things have rebalanced, the politician has regained a share of autonomy over the medical sector.
But the doctors continued to believe (or hope) that it was they who decided.
And to express themselves as decision-makers.
This is what they should fail.