L'EXIT! People rush to escape Paris with train tickets selling out as Macron plunges a THIRD of French people into new month-long lockdown amid surge in Covid cases and vaccine roll-out shambles

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 19, 2021 | Tim Stickings

[C19fan]

Parisians piled on to trains in an exodus from the French capital today hours before a third of the country is plunged into a new month-long lockdown.

Trains heading west to Brittany and south to Lyon were fully booked on Friday with platforms packed at the Gare Montparnasse as 12million people in the Paris region brace for the new restrictions.

French PM Jean Castex announced the new measures last night amid a third wave of Covid-19 cases which has thrown Paris hospitals into crisis, with vaccines coming too slowly to protect large chunks of the population.

[C19fan]

All this damage both deaths and economic from the Euros Weenies in a cut off your nose to spite your face moment not accepting the British AstraZeneca vaccine.

[cuban leaf]

We are living in a post apocalypse world. As the “savings” runs out and the weeks go by, it will become more and more obvious to more and more people.

Hunker down, folks, it’s about to get interesting.

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[libstripper]

Poor, poor Parisians. They must be looking back to the good old days of the Nazi occupation where the Nazis were nowhere as strict.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Anyone wonder why not is, the world is doing all these actions, over a virus which while serious, is not fatal in the vast majority of cases? This virus is not the return of the Bubonic plague from medieval Europe.

The collateral damage is immense from these restrictions we have seen governments impose on people.

[Red Badger]

Just like the 14th century......................

[butlerweave]

Are the Africans still living in tents in the streets ?

[BipolarBob]

Snake Plisskin in “Escape from Paris”.

[Mouton]

Well that is why some Parisian boulevards are tree lined. So the German army does not have to March in the sun.

[hanamizu]

It is important, I think, for us to realize that we in America are not alone when it comes to the draconian measures (taken in some states, but happily for me, not mine) on the population. Most of Europe (again, not all) has seen much worse. And apparently it’s not getting better.

[DeFault User]

Macron only had to declare that March is the month of August and all the Parisians would leave anyway.

[Verginius Rufus]

It makes me think of the scene in Casablanca when Humphrey Bogart is about to board a train to get out of Paris before the Germans arrive.

[Manuel OKelley]

Mostly agree, however I think that in the next few months we will see regions go de-facto autonomous and while it will be less than pleasant (limited imports, shortages) they will survive ok.

Then when the leftist servants of our overlords realize how much better some places are doing shit will get spicy.

[Oatka]

Schnitzel Republic blog says that some Germans, when showing up for their second vaccine shot, are getting the wrong brand. Hopefully, no bad reactions and, no screw-ups like that here.