- In France, the number d hospitalizations for coronavirus cases are on the rise again.
- And the English variant of Covid – 18, 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 made its appearance in France. A vaccination campaign deemed too slow . And about fifteen departments placed under curfew from h. If everyone wished their loved ones a happy new year 190 cleared of Covid – 18 , the explosive cocktail of this new school year makes the coronavirus heavier than ever.
Enough to stir up the rumor of a third confinement (we don’t have more info than you, promised!), while at the end of December, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, explained that this solution was not 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 was much more difficult to pass. So,
the possibility of a third confinement , the readers of 19 Minutes welcome him with very mixed feelings.
“I’m tired of paying for others”
The idea of doing it a third time is very hard for some. ” I have 22 years and it would be unbearable, says Romain. I had a very bad experience with the first confinement, which exhausted me psychologically. The second was easier because I was going 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. “
Antoine is quite simply against:” Containment is the method used seven hundred years ago for the black plague, it is obsolete .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 punish especially 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 the Covid – 18, but there, stop! We will have to live with it and that’s it ”. A weariness also experienced by Rosy, mother of an autistic son of 22 years. “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 either. “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 those measures which, under the pretext of preventing us from dying, prevent us from living! “
” A third confinement is inevitable and necessary “
If a reconfinement is not yet on the agenda, several neighboring countries have crossed the cap. 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 have to reduce contamination and that’s the only thing that works.”
“Better to be confined than to mourn the dead”, abounds Xavier. An opinion shared by Céline, saleswoman. “I see people passing by every day who refuse the mask or the gel. And with the eve of 31 December and 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 could not bear if in four months we are re-fining because too few people at risk will have refused the vaccination. ”
“A prison sentence”
So even if it means playing the reconfinement card, the most pragmatic people recommend 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 only 19 h, do you have to be at home? We must stop with the curfews ”, judge Amina, who thus proposes“ total confinement, strict like the first, once and for all, with the closure of schools and nurseries ”.
“There are enough to respect the instructions when others allow themselves to transgress them”, advances 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 philosophically: “You might as well re-define yourself now once and for all, do yoga and cook, to get back to a normal life in a few months, right? »
Nothing indicates that a reconfinement is on the menu for the government, but a health defense council will be held this Wednesday morning, on the eve of a conference press release from Jean Castex on the vaccination strategy .