“From the beginning of August, the health pass will apply in cafes, restaurants, shopping centers, hospitals, retirement homes but also in planes, trains and coaches for long journeys.“, said Emmanuel Macron, during his televised intervention this Monday, July 12, 2021. With, pending clarification, an essential question: the government will retain what definition of the shopping center? For example, the European definition, ie more than 20 stores, more than 5,000 m², with centralized management… The question of the vaccination of employees is also raised (with obviously a shorter timeframe than for caregivers !, at the beginning of August for the first and 15 September for the second) as well as the method of controls (and what should a merchant do in the event of conflicts with refractory customers?). How do you know that the health pass is not fraudulent? Knowing that only a judicial police officer can check someone’s identity. Another example of a question, what happens for a hypermarket with entrances outside the shopping center? And in an emergency for a person without a health pass, for a pharmacy in a shopping center when this same pharmacy is the only one miles away? And what will the cost be for malls that sometimes have more than 10 entrances?
As we can see, traders have a great need for clarification as the declaration of the President of the Republic has remained vague. Especially since the representatives of the traders were obviously not consulted beforehand. Before the modalities are specified, probably today since a meeting should be held in the afternoon (at 5:00 p.m.) in Bercy with representatives of the trade, here are the first reactions on twitter.
‘Surprise’ announcement by@EmmanuelMacron on shopping centers. It is essential to encourage vaccination as much as possible, but the obligation of a health pass at the entrance to shopping centers will pose enormous practical problems (1) https://t.co/2sAcWAFxzZ
– Jacques Creyssel (@JacquesCreyssel) July 12, 2021
1. What about food stores or pharmacies that do not have specific doors? Difficult to imagine the obligation of access to eat or… to be vaccinated ????????? https://t.co/L8GHLuHCJN
– Jacques Creyssel (@JacquesCreyssel) July 12, 2021
It is therefore essential (1) that the public authorities set up vaccination tents in front of our stores as quickly as possible (2) that all our employees who have had their first injection be given a deadline (3) that the measure be limited to largest shopping centers https://t.co/mQGSi3OOWL
– Jacques Creyssel (@JacquesCreyssel) July 12, 2021
2. Will our employees, who are young and therefore little vaccinated, have to do a PCR test every 3 days between now and their second dose + 15 days, ie at least 1.5 months? If so, it would be a more restrictive regime than for caregivers who have until 9/15 to be vaccinated ????????? https://t.co/j4UTX4Ni6d
– Jacques Creyssel (@JacquesCreyssel) July 12, 2021
At this moment we still do not know what “health pass in shopping centers on August 1” means. Which businesses are affected according to what terms? Answers at 5 p.m. during a ministerial meeting with @BrunoLeMaire and @alaingriset.
– Dominique Schelcher (@schelcher) July 13, 2021
Putting in place a health pass at the entrance of a supermarket would raise these questions: Who would control the entrance? What would happen in the event of a conflict? What would become of unvaccinated employees? And this point: to condition food shopping to a constraint?
– Dominique Schelcher (@schelcher) July 13, 2021
Extension of the health pass: a decision taken “without consultation”, regrets the general delegate of the National Council of shopping centershttps://t.co/FodcXB9Jq2 pic.twitter.com/pROLTLZR0c
– franceinfo (@franceinfo) July 12, 2021
926,000 appointments made for a first dose of vaccine on Monday https://t.co/Z6RvVBiAhe
— 20 Minutes (@20Minutes) July 13, 2021
“From September 15, if you are a caregiver and you are not vaccinated, you will no longer be able to work and you will no longer be paid,” said Mr. Véran on LCI, after the announcement by Emmanuel Macron of compulsory vaccination for this population category #AFP pic.twitter.com/fjA3cr0qS5
– Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) July 12, 2021
Many reactions following the PR yesterday.
Let us reason by the absurd.
Imagine “non-vaccine” businesses, as there were smoking and non-smoking areas.
Who would dare to work there?
Who would dare to go there?
Let everyone stop focusing their safety on others and get vaccinated.— Philippe Goetzmann (@pgoetzmann) July 13, 2021
Elisabeth Borne: it is up to the traders “to check the sanitary pass, it is not complicated”https://t.co/mnMoIvgEEM pic.twitter.com/bGT8TER7lM
— BFM Business (@bfmbusiness) July 13, 2021
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