Macron ignores scientists and refuses to tighten coronavirus restrictions

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Professor Jean François Delfraissy, president of the scientific council that advises the French government, called on him a week ago to "make difficult decisions."

But the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, said not to further toughen the restrictions on citizenship due to Covid-19.

Its prime minister,

, verbalized it in the Assembly: "The coherence of the government's policy is simple: it

."

So the obligation to wear a mask, in force in Paris and other metropolises as well as in public transport, will not be extended indiscriminately.

Nor will the bars be closed.

In two defense councils, a restricted body of the Executive with key ministers, has set the course "convinced that we must let the people live and protect the most fragile."

Words that

attributes to someone close to the Elysee's tenant.

Stéphane Séjourné, MEP and former adviser to the president, added another reason: "Restricting the circulation of the virus is the priority but the president wants to avoid at all costs an escalation of restrictions on freedoms that a part of the population might not accept."

The annual Ipsos survey "French Fractures", published this week by

, measures that risk well.

Why?

63% doubt its effectiveness and 46% fear its side effects.

Interesting: 56% of refractory Gauls vote for Le Pen.

The French Executive acts under the legal coverage of the

It ends on October 30 but will present a new bill to extend it until March 31.

The procedure leaves in the hands of the prefects (equivalent to our subdelegates of the government in each province) the adoption of measures that limit the freedoms.

The mask is mandatory in Paris, for example, but

Restrictions in Nice, Marseille and Bordeaux

This Friday the prefect of Nice has

in parks and beaches

, ordered that the bars close half an hour after midnight and imposed that the league match between the local club and PSG be played without public.

Similar measures have been adopted in the conurbations of Marseille and Bordeaux (where drinking standing up in bars or on the street is prohibited).

Lyon must adopt them in the next few days.

In the rest of the country, attendance at stadiums is limited to 5,000 people.

This tension sometimes reaches the courts.

Thus, the administrative court of Strasbourg has twice rejected the extension to the entire Alsatian capital of the mandatory nature of the mask.

It considers that the decision taken by the prefect Josiane Chevalier was "manifestly serious and a serious attack on individual freedom."

She also demanded that she identify "neighborhoods with a high density or high frequentation."

Another ruling in Lyon was in the same direction.

In short: the restrictions, tailored and duly justified.

So, the situation in France is not serious?

Have not contagions soared?

Be careful, it's serious.

And the epidemic has spread again:

.

The alert level is set at 50 positives per 100,000 inhabitants.

In Paris we are at 140. Another dozen cities are on alert.

The worst records, Bordeaux (201) and Marseille (279).

But the key number is not that.

The contagion rate is 1.2 when in the spring peak it passed 3. That data is worrying.

Above 1.2, it is considered difficult to stop the advance of an epidemic.

Now,

.

In spring, every three days.

We put the magnifying glass on the

.

In spring it was a territory where the virus did not circulate much.

To the extent that serious patients were transferred there from other regions.

Of the 537 ICU beds, on April 10 there were 441 occupied.

On August 14, only 13 patients remained.

Currently, there are 139 patients admitted.

26%, double the national occupancy rate.

The problem is the speed of contagion.

If the restrictions fail to halt the progression, by the end of September there will be 300 patients in the emergency room and by

In other words, things can get very ugly again.

But Macron prefers to spin fine.

In some cases squeezing.

In others, loosening.

For example, in schools.

From now on, it

Because it is important that children continue to go to class and because, according to all experts, "children are very low transmitters."

To date, 81 schools are closed.

That is, 0.13% of the more than 60,000.

That does not mean that everything works well in France.

At the Defense Council on September 11, Macron abrogated the Minister of Health.

Olivier Verin, who is a doctor to make matters worse, boasted that France has already managed to perform more than a million tests a week.

.. but results take more than a week.

And there are long lines at all the labs.

"The government lost the communication battle on masks, lacking the humility to confess its initial inexperience. Macron does not want to lose the battle of tests in the same way," concluded Guillaume Tabard, political analyst at

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