Coronavirus: "Young people made enormous efforts during the crisis"

INTERVIEW

"If there are many sacrificed by this crisis, the extent of which we do not yet fully know, it is young people."

In a column published on Saturday in

, three young graduates, Emmanuel Blézès, Yama Darriet and Charles Mazé, warn about the weight that public spending caused by the coronavirus epidemic weighs on the future of young people, in particular because of the increase in public debt.

Invited Monday from Europe 1, Emmanuel Blézès returned to this text, and recalled to what extent the youth had participated in the collective effort at the height of the health crisis.

"Young people have made enormous efforts," he says, regretting the media treatment of them during the summer. 

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Because in August, while the fear of a rebound in the epidemic grew more pressing every day, several media warned about the responsibility of adolescents and young adults in the resumption of circulation of the virus, especially during their summer evenings.

"The young peril?", Had thus questioned the newspaper

n.

This one, explains Emmanuel Blézès, "seemed to say that the young were carefree and irresponsible".

However, he adds, young people have agreed to give up part of their freedom to confine themselves, and thus protect their elders.

"There was a form of sacrifice that we are proud of," he says.

"We confined ourselves for our parents, for our grandparents, for the most fragile people. It is something that my generation will remember and that we are proud of."

For the president of the Club 2030 think tank and foresight, "the perspective should not be reversed either. Young people who come together after having spent six months being out of school have the right to take a little time for them ". 

"A potentially explosive weight on the next generations"

But the column published in

is also worried about the future of this youth.

Denouncing "the mechanism of generational transfer of the weight of the debt contracted during the crisis", the authors assert, fatalistic: "The confinement generation will pay for the boomers".

"There is a potentially explosive weight on the next generations", develops Emmanuel Blézès.  

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"There are two types of debt that we are going to have to settle: the public debt and the ecological debt", continues the guest from Europe 1. "And when you put these two elements together, there may be in our generation the feeling that we are being left with a world that is going to be difficult, and that we will have to face these two problems head on ".