Numbers summarize all thought, said Pythagoras. And numbers do not lend themselves to dispute when it comes to the spread of the virus and its health effects.
While waiting for the vaccination campaign to gain momentum (it has started and should pick up power) and have its effect (mass coverage), we will have to continue living as we have become accustomed to: deprived of social life and with the obligation to reorganize our professional life.
This will be the case everywhere in the world, and in this case, the famous French exception does not apply.
We will have to wait for summer to imagine a normal life. Until then, patience will be required. And observe the safety measures rather than complaining constantly as only the French know how to do. Another French exception?
French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced at a press conference that all currently blocked activities “will remain so at least until the end of January.”
Thus, bars, restaurants, cinemas, museums, and gyms remain closed and will not reopen on January 20, as President Emmanuel Macron had suggested at the end of the November lockdown. Even the ski lifts will not reopen.
For the bars and restaurants, which have been closed since October, “the prospect of reopening is postponed until at least mid-February.” For bars and restaurants in particular, Castex sees no possibility of reopening before “at least mid-February.”
The prime minister also announced that the curfew starting at 6 PM, already in effect in 15 departments, will be extended to ten more, and that the borders with the United Kingdom will remain closed “until further notice.”
