The French government is considering maintaining the health pass until summer 2022.
Following the cabinet meeting held today, the spokesperson Gabriel Attal expressed the government’s desire to “maintain the possibility of using the health pass until summer 2022.”
“We need to give ourselves the means for several more months to have the option to use measures, if necessary, to protect the French people.”
The legal possibility to implement the health pass expires on November 15 but could be extended until summer 2022: “What we want, what we will propose to Parliament, is to maintain the option of using it for several more months, until the summer.”
In light of the possibility of the health pass being extended, many have reacted on social media expressing their agreement or disagreement:
Some are initially confused and consider this extension of the pass contradictory with recent measures and current statistics:
“The numbers have been declining for several weeks, only 43 deaths and 254 hospitalizations in all of France today. And they want to impose the health pass until summer 2022??”
“We remove masks in elementary schools but extend the health pass until summer 2022 when COVID is easing off?? What’s the logic?”
Others see it as a sign of wanting to control the presidential elections:
“Macron wants to extend the Health Pass until summer 2022… In other words, use it for the upcoming elections.”
“Do you think what I’m thinking? Isn’t Macron trying to impose the health pass at the entrance of polling stations in 2022? He knows that the anti-vaxxers are necessarily against La République En Marche.”
Conversely, some have reacted positively to this announcement by the spokesperson:
One Internet user against the health pass, for example, stated she would go get vaccinated:
“Health Pass until summer 2022? I’ve held out long enough, I’ll get vaccinated now!”
Another, like many, considers it the only solution to get out of this health crisis:
“If it can help end this terrible pandemic and return to life as it was before, I’m for the pass.”
