France extends 'state of health emergency' until July 24, effectively continuing lockdown for THREE MORE MONTHS

France 24
Sat, 02 May 2020 17:04 UTC

Comment: They're still being extremely cagey about their next moves, Our Dear Western Leaders, but it's looking more and more like they intend to keep as much of the lockdown in place as possible. For many more months to come...

French PM Édouard Philippe has become the most reviled man in France because of the govt's ever-stricter lockdown measures...

France has decided to extend a "state of health emergency" imposed to fight the coronavirus pandemic for two months until July 24, Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Saturday.

A proposal to be put to parliament on Monday says plans this month to lift the public health emergency, which began on March 24, would "be premature" and "could see a risk of the outbreak" intensifying.

Comment: Not to be confused with the date the lockdown began in France, one week prior on March 17th.

"We are going to have to live with the virus for a while," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said after a cabinet meeting.

Comment: That's a given - just like we live with every other virus. What it really looks like is that we are going to have to live with authoritarians like Castaner for a while. Their 'cure' is going to last a lot longer than the disease - and it's also going to do far more damage.

The bill also lays out the quarantine conditions for people coming to France from abroad.

Comment: More on this below...

More than 24,500 people have died of the Covid-19 disease so far in France. The country is preparing to ease restrictions on May 11 following a strict nationwide lockdown, which was imposed on March 17.

In an address marking international Labour Day on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the exit from lockdown would not signal a return to "normal life".

"There will be a recovery that will need to be reorganised," Macron said. "There will be several phases and May 11 will be one of them."

Comment: We can live with politicians being vague during normal times. But politicians being vague during 'war-time' (as they themselves have repeatedly described this) is FATAL to a country's health. As things stand, they are telling people several different things at once, all the while the financial, social, health and psychological screws tighten on everyone's mind. This CANNOT go on indefinitely; the politicians are driving people to revolt...

On the new 'quarantining of foreigners' mentioned in the above report, The Local (France) has more:

As part of the planned measures, Veran [health minister of France] said people entering France may have to remain confined for two weeks.

Entry into France is currently heavily restricted, with only essential travel into the country allowed, and an international travel certificate required for everyone crossing the border.

"The compulsory quarantine will concern anyone entering the national territory, an overseas territory or Corsica," said Véran. [...]

Véran said people who are not symptomatic would be quarantined and those who develop symptoms and are diagnosed positive for coronavirus by a doctor will be put in isolation.

Anyone arriving from abroad and infected with the virus would be obliged by law to be quarantined.

So which is it: anyone entering French territory, or anyone who tests positive for the virus?? Because the minister just said BOTH are grounds for mandatory quarantine.

However Interior Minister Cristophe Castaner added that there would be exceptions for people who regularly cross the border such as frontalier workers and haulage drivers.

He said there were already provisions in place for people "who live close to the border or who live in France and travel regularly to another country for work".

It was not clear where people would be quarantined or isolated with the government planning to announce further details in the coming days.

You can bet that they already know exactly where they want to put people; they're just - once again - 'breaking it to us gently'...

The condition of the length of quarantine, the place where people will be asked to stay, the health monitoring and restrictions on outings that apply to those quarantined will be specified after the advice of the Scientific Council, said the minister. The total duration of isolation, whatever the situation, could never exceed 30 days, said Véran, and people will have the right of appeal to a judge who must decide their case within 72 hours.

Oh. So it's an entire MONTH of solitary confinement??

Infected people already in France will, however, not be forced to accept isolation and treatment, as "we trust French people's sense of responsibility," Veran said.

Oh how very considerate of them. They know perfectly well that those who are 'confirmed infected' are already 'in the care of the state' because those are symptomatic people who voluntarily sought treatment. The above is a message to those who are infected, asymptomatic and living freely (to the extent that they can while under house arrest): 'we could come find you and forcibly remove you from your homes, but we're not just yet'...

The government had initially announced a plan for everyone in France who tested positive for Covid-19 to isolate for two weeks either at home or in special accommodation, and initial plans were to give local authorities the power to enforce quarantine.

However this was altered after protests over heavy-handedness, and now the quarantine will be something that people are only asked to do in order to protect the health of others.

Like all other 'government recommendations' in the past two months, this is bullshit of the highest order. They are SAYING it's all voluntary, WHILE their security forces are arresting and fining people on the basis of strict adherence to the 'recommendations', AS IF THEY WERE LAW.

We fear another revolution is in the making.