Solene Tissot, a 19-year-old student in Paris, will obey the curfew imposed to fight COVID-19, but she has one request for her country's leaders: don't blame young people for the second wave of the virus.
PARIS - Solene Tissot, a 19-year-old student in Paris, will obey the curfew imposed to fight COVID-19, but she has one request for her country’s leaders: don’t blame young people for the second wave of the virus.“There’s been this kind of assigning guilt to young people,” she said on Friday, hours before the new curfew was to come into force in Paris and major French cities. “I reject that.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday: “We must call especially on young people to do without a few parties now.”About 25% of the virus clusters under investigation in France are in educational establishments, the public health agency said. The virus was being spread, they said, because of other factors, including a lack of preparedness on the part of the government and people mixing in workplaces. Blaming young peoples’ parties, they said, was too simplistic.
She said authorities should do a better job of managing social distancing inside universities, before pointing the figure at youngsters’ parties.
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