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<blockquote data-quote="Louis" data-source="post: 1562189" data-attributes="member: 17088">Sadly I don&#039;t think France has folded or intends to soon. Yes, they don&#039;t intend to make the vaccine mandatory but only because, in the government&#039;s own words, there are better ways to make it mandatory than to &quot;mandate&quot; it. Rather than a mandate they have put in place a digital pass without which you can do very little. Up to now the pass could be obtained with a negative test (valid only 24 hours so already not practical), but the testing option is going away as early as next week. Afterwards the only way to get the pass is to be fully vaccinated (this includes boosters), and the only way to live a normal life is with the pass.&nbsp; It&#039;s effectively a mandate, it is supported even by some of Macron&#039;s challengers on the right for this spring&#039;s election, and most of the other contenders have largely avoided the topic which gives little hope they would forcefully oppose it, even if they were elected, which seems unlikely.Maybe the day will come, but it has not arrived yet that anything about the narrative or direction has changed in France.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Louis, post: 1562189, member: 17088"] Sadly I don't think France has folded or intends to soon. Yes, they don't intend to make the vaccine mandatory but only because, in the government's own words, there are better ways to make it mandatory than to "mandate" it. Rather than a mandate they have put in place a digital pass without which you can do very little. Up to now the pass could be obtained with a negative test (valid only 24 hours so already not practical), but the testing option is going away as early as next week. Afterwards the only way to get the pass is to be fully vaccinated (this includes boosters), and the only way to live a normal life is with the pass. It's effectively a mandate, it is supported even by some of Macron's challengers on the right for this spring's election, and most of the other contenders have largely avoided the topic which gives little hope they would forcefully oppose it, even if they were elected, which seems unlikely. Maybe the day will come, but it has not arrived yet that anything about the narrative or direction has changed in France. [/QUOTE]

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