Sometimes it really is better to admit that you don't know...

[mint]

[url]https://www.sudouest.fr/france/covid-19-en-france-toujours-pas-d-explosion-toujours-pas-de-certitude-1341686.php[/url]

Well, even if the experts and politicians do not know what the coronavirus is going to do next, that in itself is some sort of certainty?

And no, I didn't know what that first phrase in the article meant until I googled it![:)]

[betise]

That first phrase threw me too, we learn something new every day. For those that are wondering "Lame de fond sous-jacente", roughly, underlying tidal wave.

[chessfou2]

So many journalists, especially in the local press (but even Le Monde) seem to see themselves as the new Hugo (or Houellebecq) and produce 'odd' or even unintelligible prose.