The new Wave of Covid-19 which falls on Europe painfully dissipates optimism powered by spring and summer vaccination campaigns. They seemed to condemn the pandemic with reflux, or at least place it under control, it is no longer a question. Rotate as soon as possible the page of repetitive confines and tracketes at the bonus to freedoms would suppose that everyone takes his responsibilities by vaccinating. We are still far away, despite the progress recorded in record time.
Awareness of the limits inherent in this indispensable parade to fight against CVIV-19, without being an absolute weapon, is brutal. This shock probably explains the protests recorded in recent days in some countries after the return of constraints. This is the case of Austria, ironed under the confinement and which is divided into the perspective of a vaccine obligation, while 65% of the population has a complete vaccination scheme. In the Netherlands (more than 70% of people totally vaccinated) or in Belgium (more than 75%), the protest was even accompanied by violence.
With the exception of this last country, already dramatically touched at the beginning of the pandemic, the current wave highlights the contrast between two Europe. Between a southern overflowed in 2020 but who arrives, more than a year later, to maintain the CVIV-19 at a relative distance, and a northern Europe and the northernness, while it had reached. to better curb the pandemic when it was in its debut. The situation prevailing in Germany (68% of the vaccinated population) testifies, accentuated by the transition to the head of the federal state, which recalls the weight of the political decision against the virus.
respect barrier gestures
This anger that is expressed in Europe, but also in Guadeloupe with regard to France, can be explained. She does not have to blind. Two years or almost after the appearance of COVID-19, States now have a toolbox against the pandemic. The place of vaccination and its extension as many as possible age groups are central, but they can not replace all other forms of protection alone with their effects. The European countries that have paid in 2020 the heaviest tributes at the pandemic are also those where barrier gestures, whose wearing of the mask, remain today the best respected. It is Italy (where 73% of the population has a full vaccination) and Spain (80%).
Although a loosening of vigilance has been observed in recent weeks, France still stones for the moment in the group of the most resistant countries, certainly because of the efficiency of the sanitary pass. Now trivially, this device does not mobilize more against him than a sporadic protest and often excluded to other more ideological and sanitary contested disputes.