The country is going through a very dark period filled with crises of all kinds. The year 2020 was a perfect illustration of this.
– The health crisis
A misunderstood, dangerous, highly contagious virus. An uncontrollable epidemic, unbearable for our healthcare systems. No visible end in sight as it depends on hypothetical vaccines.
– The economic crisis
Already real and historical following the first lockdown, it will now attack—with all the violence of the second lockdown—”a weakened organism” (indebted businesses, 1 million French people have fallen into poverty since March).
– The social crisis
While it is obvious that, from both a health and economic perspective, solidarity is the only way forward for salvation, Islamist attacks—and the reactions they provoke—deeply tear the nation apart and reveal irreconcilable antagonisms between fellow citizens.
The combination of the three presents an unprecedented challenge.
While it is difficult to be optimistic, in the end, we will get through it because nothing stops the free individual.
