{"id":20558,"date":"2020-11-05T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/?p=20558"},"modified":"2020-11-05T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T23:48:16","slug":"quand-quelquun-quelque-part-decide-de-ce-qui-est-essentiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/quand-quelquun-quelque-part-decide-de-ce-qui-est-essentiel\/","title":{"rendered":"When someone, somewhere, decides what is essential\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE COUNTRY<\/a>, GET PEOPLE MOVING<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Written by Emmanuel de Reynal and published on Overblog<\/p>\n

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Someone, somewhere, has just decided what is essential to me\u2014and what isn\u2019t. What is useful here, and what is incidental there. What can be sold to me, and what must not be. Someone, somewhere, has just decided that one business can stay open while another must close its doors. That one can survive while the other must fade away.<\/h4>\n
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By placing the people of Martinique under lockdown, our leaders had only one goal: to slow the spread of the virus. They made this decision with incomplete information in one hand and many unanswered questions in the other, convinced in good faith that the actions of some were endangering the lives of others. They made a difficult decision that no one would want to make in their place\u2014a decision that was inevitably imperfect. We cannot hold this against them.<\/p>\n

But one might still wonder\u2026<\/p>\n

A relaxed lockdown\u2014one that gives some people free rein while restricting others\u2014inevitably creates a sense of injustice and a decline in civic responsibility. Yet, in the crisis we are currently facing, everyone\u2019s individual commitment is essential. But when someone, somewhere, begins to divide people into \u00abessential\u00bb and \u00abnon-essential\u00bb categories, that\u2019s when dissent arises\u2014the first step toward division.<\/p>\n

Because yes, we now have to explain to the cobbler that his trade isn\u2019t essential, to the bookseller that we can do without his services, to the hairdresser that we no longer need him, to the tailor that he can go tailor elsewhere\u2026 and so on. Yet these very same so-called \u00abnon-essential\u00bb professionals were the first to promote preventive measures; they all invested in stringent protocols to protect their employees and customers; and, in their own way, essentials<\/strong> in the fight against the epidemic. And that tomorrow they will be essentials<\/strong> to the survival of our economy and our jobs.<\/p>\n

And to top it all off, rather than letting all retailers operate freely while imposing a few strict rules on them\u2014rules they would be the first to defend\u2014 someone, somewhere, is scouring the aisles of big-box stores to decide what is \u00abessential\u00bb and what is not.<\/p>\n

But perhaps there are objective reasons why the \u201chalf-lockdown\u201d strategy is more effective than any other? Perhaps there is a valid explanation as to why spreading customers out across neighborhood stores is more dangerous than concentrating them in just a few retail locations? Perhaps someone, somewhere, has studied the economic, social, and health impacts of the collapse of thousands of businesses that will never recover from their forced closures?\u00a0In that case, having swallowed our bitterness, we will have to bow to our leaders\u2019 strategy. For nothing must undermine our unity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOUGER LE PAYS, BOUGER LES GENS R\u00e9dig\u00e9 par Emmanuel de Reynal et publi\u00e9 depuis Overblog Quelqu\u2019un, quelque part, vient de d\u00e9cider ce qui pour moi est essentiel, et ce qui ne l\u2019est pas. Ce qui est utile ici, et accessoire l\u00e0. Ce qui peut m\u2019\u00eatre vendu, et ce qui ne doit pas l\u2019\u00eatre. Quelqu\u2019un, quelque<\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":20559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":null,"rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}