Bastine's insights too on the French Covid situation.
Since July 12, the government is trying to encourage people to get vaccinated by prohibiting access to trains, restaurants, culture places, hospitals, molls, etc. to those who are not vaccinated or who can't provide a negative PCR test of less than 48h. Currently there are strong demonstrations in France because of it and the situation will get worse from a social point of view.But, we are still in a period of tolerance, the rules will get tougher after August 9, so the first lie is to pretend that she has to do it every two days.
The second lie concerns the feasibility of the test every two days. It is impossible to test somebody with this recurrence : first from a physical point of view then for administrative and logistical reasons ; in France only laboratories are authorized to do the PCR test, pharmacists can only test the antigen test. It is a whole organization to go in a laboratory, you have to do an appointment, the result is not immediate, so it's impossible for her to do tests every two days. Maybe she had to go to a pharmacist once, but that's all.
The third lie concerns the price. Since July 7, tests for foreigners cost 25-29 euros for an antigen test and 49 euros for the PCR test. But, and this is important, it concerns test centers attached to airports. When one is already in town one might as well go to a drugstore and can have the antigen test for no more than 5 euros like everybody else. In town for the PCR test you have to go to a laboratory (see above).
I am surprised that she understood so badly French TV news about Covid. Channels like Cnews or BFMTV, available in all French hotels, disseminate this information day in and day out. Joseph is Lebanese, theoretically he speaks a perfect or a fluent French. Is he not with her to translate ?