by Anne Swardson | Oct 3, 2020 | covid, France
I just found a spark of joy from an unexpected source: a French civil servant. Not only is my native country a mess, France isn’t filled with joy these days. Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise, about 12,000 a day on average. As a proportion of the population,... 
by Anne Swardson | Sep 19, 2020 | covid, France
How do you say mixed messages in French? On the one hand, the government here, desperately concerned about a record surge in COVID-19 cases, is telling older people to, in the words of the health minister, “protect yourselves even more.” Parisians should “rethink...