PARIS — The French government is sending riot police to the Marseille region to help enforce mask requirements, as more and more towns and neighborhoods are imposing mask rules starting Monday to slow rising infections.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced Monday that 130 police officers are being sent to the Marseille region, which expanded its outdoor mask requirements to all farmers’ markets and more neighborhoods Friday.
France has seen scattered incidents of violence by people refusing to wear masks. Paris expanded its mask requirements Saturday, and other towns around France started requiring masks outdoors on Monday.
Infections have been speeding up around France in recent days, with 3,015 new cases Sunday, one of the highest daily spikes since the country lifted a strict two-month lockdown in May.
More than 30,400 people have died with the virus in France, one of the highest death tolls in the world.
Other countries are taking this pandemic seriously…but in Trumpian AmeriKKKa, we are constantly told “it will magically disappear”.
Belarus news changing from hour to hour now. Earlier today Lukashenko said he would not allow another new election unless he was dead. Opposition said they’d take that deal! Lukashenko now is ready to discuss “power sharing”. Called Putin again. Estonia is concerned that the disruption in Belarus could spread to poorer Ukraine and cause “regional destabilization”. Looking at possibility of general strike in Belarus.
We are only beginning to know the toll the virus takes on the body – and the healthcare costs down the line are going to be astronomical. This is not going to end well.
As always the cheese-munching surrender monkeys get it all wrong, the riot police is for beating up darkies, not to trample on the freedom to be a srelfish jerk.
Feels good to know there are moronic assholes in other countries too.