Emmanuel Macron, let’s face it, is a lucky guy. His luck, historic indeed, is to have to confront a virus, deceitful, changing, contagious like a plague and willingly fatal. Almost two years that the epidemic has played with our health and our nerves. Two years that the executive has sailed as close as possible to its threats, to contain them as well as possible without making our life impossible.
It turns out that France is not doing so badly. Of course, the political authorities react too late or too early, of course they do too much or not enough, obviously they take measures to kill freedom unless, on the contrary, they do not strike hard enough. But, all in all, and without having finished yet, 91% of French people are vaccinated, essentially escaping the risk of a fatal outcome …
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