Yesterday, during my daily walk, I noticed the large number of people on the street, there were as many (or more) people as when we were not in quarantine. Today, the government is speaking, and unfortunately, I expect an extension.
Before being locked on, I used to think of all the things I could do in a month if I didn’t have classes, but I didn’t expect “these” months, which make us less and less productive. I’ve never lost so much time, but at the same time we don’t have much choice, I wonder how prisoners should feel, who are locked up for months or even years. I feel that when “déconfinement”-day will come, we’ll all be zombies, we’ll be Homer Simpson’s, we’ll work less efficiently because we will be used to working less, and this ‘sloth society’ scares me more than the virus.

We can still say that confinement has helped people who are not often at home, to find themselves, to discover what they like or not, what they want/need and what they don’t. Many people discover passions, music, cooking, art.
On the other hand, living in tense periods, locked up with other people, causes a lot of disagreement; here, 1 in 10 couples will distance themselves after confinement, many doctors, and other medical workers, are about to be expelled from their homes because of the fear of neighbors. Some restaurants open with restrictions that seem absurd, society changes, and in the wrong direction.

It’s nobody’s fault, but at the same time, i think there are better ways to act in the face of such a health crisis. Even if the virus disappears, these actions will remain in people’s mind, it’ll be a real crisis, not sanitary, but mental, of society, and it is not the best time for that, it never is.
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