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Lockdowns for thee but not for me.
Lockdowns for thee but not for me.
French president’s COVID diagnosis inspires accusations of hypocrisy
While some mainstream media are touting the image of a ‘responsible’ president now self-isolating, social media and an increasing number of public figures have reacted with anger.
Thu Dec 17, 2020 - 9:03 pm EST
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French president Emmanuel Macron.
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By Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent
December 17, 2020 ([LifeSiteNews) — French President Emmanuel Macron, 42, tested positive for COVID-19 this Thursday after displaying “mild” symptoms of the disease related to the Wuhan coronavirus. According to the French government’s spokesman, Gabriel Attal, who gave an update on the president’s condition on Thursday evening, Macron has a “slight” fever, a bad cough, and severe fatigue. He has gone into isolation, and not only he: at a time when the French are being encouraged to telecommute, avoid contacts as much as possible, and observe an 8:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M. curfew under the threat of heavy fines, Macron has a long list of “contacts” who are now deemed to be at risk of infection . . .
. . . and an increasing number of public figures have reacted with anger, as Macron has clearly not obeyed the stringent rules he personally presented to the French before the very partial deconfinement that took place here on December 15, when the lockdown was replaced by the nationwide curfew . . .
. . . How will he be cared for? Ordinary citizens are officially expected to stay at home without any treatment . . .
. . . The truth is that he will have the benefit of being cared for by the military doctor who is permanently at his service. Will Macron receive . . . hydroxychloroquine with an antibiotic that has proved efficient against COVID, azithromycine, with zinc, if given on inception of symptoms? French health authorities have banned the use of hydroxychloroquine and do not recommend the antibiotic, but many doctors say they have personally used Raoult’s protocol for themselves . . .
. . . Macron “is thought to have been contaminated at the European Summit in Brussels last Thursday and Friday,” where he spent “20 hours non-stop,” including a night-long round of negotiations with leaders of the 27 members of the European Union: a perfect, multi-national occasion for spreading SARS-COV-2.
It is in fact a clear case of “do what I say, not what I do” in more ways than one. . . . .
. . . Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, . . . decided not to self-isolate… . .
. . . On Wednesday, Macron had a meeting with the Portuguese prime minister, Antonio Costa. Photos show the two men meeting on the steps of the Elysée . . . embracing like brothers before going in for lunch. . . .