Emmanuel Macron. – STEPHANE MAHE / POOL / AFP
On the eve of a new Defense Council, which is to be held this Wednesday, pressure is mounting on the government, and more precisely on the Head of State, accused of not having been able to anticipate this third wave of the epidemic of Covid-19. Critics, which have multiplied in recent days on social networks, gave way on Tuesday to a flood of comments and mockery against the President of the Republic, whose relatives recently praised the qualities of “epidemiologist “.
The words of the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Banquer, cited Tuesday in an article from World, on the so-called “scientific expertise” of Emmanuel Macron, have indeed elicited many comments on Twitter. “The president has acquired real expertise in health matters (…) It is not an inaccessible subject for an intelligence like his and in view of the significant time he has been devoting to it for several months,” said the minister.
“When Google does not find something, it asks Emmanuel Macron”
The hashtag #EmmanuelMacronFacts, created this Tuesday, was thus ranked at the top of the trending topics on Twitter, that is to say the most commented subjects on the social network. Internet users have given themselves to their hearts content to make fun of the Head of State, “intellectually” superior to others, and who would be able to achieve all the exploits. “Emmanuel Macron has already counted to infinity. Thrice. Either once more than Chuck Norris “,” When Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he already had two calls in the absence of Emmanuel Macron “or even” When Google does not find something, he asks Emmanuel Macron “, tweeted some internet users.
When Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he already had 2 calls from Emmanuel Macron #EmmanuelMacronFacts
– ArnaudNymous (@Arnaud_Nymous) March 30, 2021
“Exclusive image of Macron coming back triumphant from Suez where he unblocked, all by himself, pushing with his bare hands, the Evergreen which had been blocking the canal for a week!” “, ” Did you know ? Initially, Moses wanted to cross the Red Sea by boat. It was Macron who showed him how to spread the waters, ”other Twitter users also wrote, who did not fail to compete in humor.
Exclusive image of Macron coming back triumphant from Suez where he unblocked, all by himself, pushing with his bare hands, the Evergreen which had been blocking the canal for a week!#EmmanuelMacronFacts pic.twitter.com/w4W9yxBzdH
– OnTheRoadPhileas (@OnTheRodPhileas) March 30, 2021
Macron “thinks he is the champion of global epidemiology” but “he is not scientific”
The praise made on the “intellectual capacities” of the Head of State made certain scientists and elected members of the opposition laugh much less. Emmanuel Macron “thinks he is the champion of global epidemiology”, but “he is not a scientist, he did not listen to the recommendations of the Scientific Council”, tackled the boss of the PS Senators Patrick Kanner, in wondering: “can our collective fate depend on a single man? “.
“We must put an end to the king miracle worker”, added the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, urging to act to “curb the virus, and accelerate the vaccination”, instead of “procrastinate”. “The problem is that the president for a year has concentrated all the powers and that nobody understands his policy: we do not know where we are going”, for his part denounced Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France.
On the eve of yet another defense council announced as decisive, the health situation in France is considered very critical: the emergency services have exceeded the peak of the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, the virus continues to progress in many regions and the vaccination campaign is considered too slow to change the situation.