A matter of life. Jean-Luc Mélenchon returned to the strike call of the CGT of trade and services from Wednesday to claim protection which, according to her, is "sorely lacking" for employees as the coronavirus epidemic strikes head on country. For the leader of La France insoumise, the recourse to strike to obtain masks is completely legitimate.
"The task of the government is not to wonder if the CGT is right [to strike] but to say to myself: how do I give masks to people who do not want to die at work […] If these people are sick they will infect others. It is nothing ideological to defend your life, "reacted the former presidential candidate to Europe 1.
As the debate over the wearing of masks is escalating in many Western countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated Monday that masks alone could not be "the miracle solution" against the pandemic of Covid-19, and that their widespread use in the population was only justified if the other barrier measures were impossible or difficult to implement. In France, where there is a shortage of masks, the government has ordered 1.6 billion units, said Minister of Health Olivier Véran on Tuesday.
"It is not possible to go to work saying to myself: I am committing suicide"
"If there are other means [than the strike] tell us which ones?" Because we have been explaining to the government for weeks that it will go wrong if we do not take the measures on the masks […]. On this question, the government was much mistaken […] and today, we are in shortage ”, continued the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, reiterating his request for a requisition of the textile industry to produce masks in large quantities.
“I ask to hear what it can hurt to say to yourself, as long as we tell you: you are heroes, the rest of the time shut your mouth. But no, people can get sick, they have families, children, it is not possible to go to work saying to myself: I am committing suicide, "insisted on Wednesday Mr. Mélenchon.
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