On the sidelines of a trip to the Institut Pasteur, the President of the Republic regretted that the instructions were not strictly applied by the French.
Emmanuel Macron encourages companies and employees to continue their activity but believes that there is still a need “reduce contacts” facing the coronavirus epidemic. “Will we have to extend” containment? “Presumably. Will we have to come back to it at other times? No doubt. We don’t know how many waves we will have and how the virus will behave”, declared the president on the sidelines of a visit to the Institut Pasteur, Thursday, March 19.
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“Everyone must already respect the rules, continued the head of state. When I see people who go to the park, who gather, who go to the beach or who rush to the open markets, it is that they did not understand the message. “
Many take this lightly. Many do not want to realize that it is to protect themselves and their loved ones.
The President believes that“we have to manage to organize work and production in such a way that there is as little contact as possible and that we conform to social distancing”. “Everyone eats, you need people to restock, to [traiter] waste. Otherwise, we are going towards cascading problems. We must ensure the continuity of the nation. But what nobody can say today is how long it will take to reduce social contact “, he said.
“This new period means asking new questions about our production chain. We must continue to produce and keep the country going. We need farmers, people who process, who sell”, pleaded Emmanuel Macron.
Where teleworking is possible, we do it. But elsewhere, we must take the time and organize production in accordance with the rules. It is not contradictory. Everything must not stop.
Asked about not having said the word “confinement” during his speech Monday, Emmanuel Macron replied: “Containment is a word that people don’t understand. They feel like we’re going to caulk everything and we can’t go out anymore. But that’s not true either. So I explained in words simple the reality of what we do, the new rules. Anything we can do without in terms of social contact, we do without it. I know the sacrifices it requires. But that doesn’t mean to stop everything . (…) There is a middle path that we must find. “
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