French "confinement" round two—open schools, closed restaurants, few actual restrictions on public movement, and most white-collar workers at home—is getting the job done

The great public resistance to these measures, in true Gallic fashion, seems to be coming from Catholic churches and bookstores

I say "few actual restrictions" because while you nominally need paperwork to leave the house, it's apparently unenforced and people are behaving accordingly

Caveat on "unenforced": Tickets are down 70 percent vs. the same period in the spring, and the rules are much more lenient. But it's still a more aggressive policy than anything we saw in the U.S.

Regardless, it's obviously not a repeat of what happened in the spring https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2020/11/15/reconfinement-six-graphiques-qui-montrent-que-les-francais-sont-plus-mobiles-qu-en-mars_6059796_4355770.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1605426982