Posted on 03/14/2020 4:55:26 PM PDT by Monrose72
PARIS (Reuters) - France will shut shops, restaurants and entertainment facilities from Sunday with its 67 million people told to stay home to help fight the rapid acceleration of the coronavirus in a country where the number of cases has doubled in 72 hours. The government had no other option, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told a news conference after the public health authority said 91 people had died in France and almost 4,500 were now infected.
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I don’t get it. Trump is the troglodyte who doesn’t believe in science yet the EU, which is slap full of scientists, is having a terrible time trying to contain this virus. Maybe they trained their best and brightest to fight climate change instead of worrying about disease outbreaks.
Franko-FOOL....
Tobacconists to remain open, eh?
(France is such a farce!)
Au revoir, Francois!
The Fascist E.U. is no U.S.A. Funny how many liberal American states want to be like a country in the E.U.
The frogs are late to the picnic once again
Last I read, France had the highest rate of smoking in the Western World.
Just imagine a couple million rude French people all forced to go Cold Turkey at the same time.
It would be Robespierre’s Reign of Terror all over again.
Ha!
That’s going to be tough when 21% of their population is homeless. (Almost a quarter of everyone there)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population
rwood
Whatever happened to “Let them eat cake!”???
In this case Italy indeed was the “soft underbelly of Europe”.
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