They arrived timidly at the very beginning of the crisis. Then, after the official announcement of the containment, the levees broke down: the jokes on the coronavirus and its consequences on our daily life are now sweeping on social networks.
The confinement and its electrical overcrowding, the pathetic transformation of parents into teachers overwhelmed by their beloved dunces, the management in cramped apartments of young children more turbulent than hordes of Huns ... Everything gives rise to more or less fine jokes. In the same way that at 8 p.m., we go to the balcony to break the silence of the deserted cities, with a lot of pots and whistles, we hurry to laugh at everything before, who knows, to be forced to cry.
Derision is a known weapon against anxiety. It has proven itself over the centuries. "We laugh in situations of chronic anxiety, when the defenses, including humor, have time to develop" , summarizes the psychiatrist
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