It looks like Sunday afternoon, by the week. Barely a door slams, sometimes the sound of a jet of water ... and the cars that rarely leave the garages on this suburban street whose confinement we tell you about.
Last week, we introduced you to Hayat, Colette, Karim, Sophie. As the confinement began, they wanted to act out of civility, and protect the most fragile around them from the coronavirus. A week later, a hint of concern crept into people's minds, despite the mild weather that made the trees bloom.
At No. 27, Hayat thinks of the others
A few days ago, she left a message: "Hello, I hope all is well for you. If you know health workers, I have made washable cloth masks, I am ready to give them, let me know. ” Hayat, a sewing teacher in the city's social centers, put his golden fingers at the service of others. "I know that it does not protect 100% but I put three layers of fabric, and it is washable". She donated ten to the Quatre-Saisons nursing home on the set. And she put twenty aside for a cousin: “She works in a palliative care service. She called me in tears, so many masks are stolen from them, ”she laments.
Her husband wears one of his masks each time he visits his mother in Montreuil. “She turned 87 last Friday. Usually, we take a cake, she loves pastry, we blow out the candles… My husband tried to maintain the tradition, all alone. Fortunately, she does not realize that she is confined because she has not been going out for years. And his health is going for the moment. ”
In his little pavilion, Hayat continues his routine: one to two hours of walking on the treadmill installed in his cellar each morning - "I fight naturally against my osteoporosis" -, sorting, preparing meals ... "I try to find new recipes with what I have in the fridge, so as not to spoil anything ”.
Each evening, her husband disinfects the whole house, "he takes a rag with a bottle of bleach, and strikes the handles, the window sills, the toilets".
In this routine that has been put in place, there is a ritual that Hayat does not want to miss: “Each evening, at 8 pm, we have a moral appointment to applaud the caregivers. I have a vuvuzela, my daughter bangs on the shutters ”. Lina, in fact, had a little fed up. “The school workload is much heavier than at school, it works non-stop! She took the time to sort through her things, she would like to throw away her school notebooks.
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Hayat the sweet worries a little, for the others, that she contacts by messaging or telephone. “What pains me is those who have no space, sometimes confined to two rooms with 2, 3 or 4 children. For some, I don't know what the end will be. ”
At n ° 18, Coco, a good lively pensive
"I relativize a lot, life gives us what we are able to bear. I'm a bit of a philosopher, I leave it to her, you can't change anything anyway, ”says Coco, still smiling. "We can only undergo and ensure that the maximum number of people pass through or do not suffer from it for too long", continues this dubbing actress. And for the rest, she would like "everyone to come out in solidarity, that there is not a frenzy of this overconsumption that is killing us." In short, let us awaken our consciences a little in the light of this global crisis ”.
Despite these thoughts, Coco, her husband and the twins, Margot and Antoine, remain happy. "We discuss, we cook. We are a bit out of place in our schedules, too bad. We weren't sleeping that night. We played Uno and made cookies until 1 am. We laughed a lot ! "
She also made homemade bread, "validated by my neighbor Sophie to whom I threw a tip out the window". "Skype aperitifs" are common with his family, including his nephew, confined to Slovakia. But there is a dark side: “Some people I work with are at the bottom of their beds, sick. I try to call those who are alone every day, ”she says. "But it's only been a week ... How will it be in two weeks? I wish we all have more morale. ”
At n ° 13, Mickaël, the Zen force
A psychologist with children and adolescents placed in care, Mickaël travels every day - by bicycle - to two to three places. "I'm lucky, a little, to be in contact with the outside world, which allows me to go out." For his wife, who telecommutes, and their son, there is therefore a separation and reunion, a different daily life to tell. But all the same, "it's a bit unthinkable, this relation to suspended time. There is this slowness, this obligation to refocus at home ... Of course you have to be vigilant, respect distances, protect yourself from this invisible virus that leaves something deadly hovering ... What strangeness! "
His youth, however, seem to be federated by something beyond them. "Sometimes, as in wartime, there are fewer neuroses ..." They also do more sport, a benefit for this quasi-pro cyclist, who rides ten to twelve hours a week, not counting competitions.
His wife allows herself outings around the house for jogging. For their son, it is more difficult. "He likes the trampoline, the pool, that's impossible. He misses it. Jumping on the sofas is not the same… But we are cooler on what is prohibited or limited since we are a little deprived of liberty, ”he laughs.
At n ° 6, Claudya, the unmistakable
"Slowing down doesn't hurt. And I'm not very comfortable outside, I don't want to go out ”. From her steps upstairs, where she often settles for smoking, Claudya has a bird's-eye view of life on the move, the little that is still going on. "There are really andouille sausages. I saw one, yesterday, who was walking down the street with a masked face. Halfway there, he pulled it up on his nose to smoke his cigarette. Whatever ! "
On the program for this brown creeper, the fewest outings possible but a rich agenda of work. “After a thorough cleaning, we will have to coat the windows. Except that I did not imagine the confinement so quickly and so long, so I risk running out of paint, ”she jokes. However, she had conditioned herself: “Friends in Wuhan, some Italian friends, gave me good advice, particularly that of setting up a routine, of marking the days. Conversely, I see my Swiss friends and family, who are lagging behind us, they do not understand the idea of confinement at all ”. "My young retiree," she said, speaking of her partner Jean-Eric, attacked the garage, sorting and emptying what we had accumulated. "It's time for load shedding".
It is for Maximilian, their sons, that this suspended time is more difficult to live. He is going to be 17 years old and worried with his parents about how he was going to celebrate it. "By Skype," they teased him. The boy, a great sportsman upset these days, is in 1st. “Until the end, it was a scary year, blows his mom. He wipes the plaster of the new tank, which is not obvious. There were demonstrations of yellow vests, which led to sometimes close his school, then strikes. Due to the occupations of certain establishments, the E3C grades have not yet been returned. For a year that is only the first, with still great choices to make, it's quite stressful. ”
At n ° 25, Axelle, ready to go to the front
At 23, Axelle is a 5th year medical student. Logically, she is aware of the coronavirus epidemic. "I am very willing to go help, even if I am a little afraid of catching the virus and infecting my loved ones," she says, a few days away from assisting the nurses at La Pitié-Salpêtrière. “For the past three weeks, I have been on an internship in gynecology at the Tenon hospital (Paris, 20th century). There are quite a few deliveries of patients suspected of having Covid-19. We change masks regularly, we wash our hands all the time. I think we are fairly well protected ”.
"It's scary but it's her choice, she doesn't want to stay behind the glass," sums up her mom, Sehrazat. Aware of her vocation, she and her husband let their eldest go on a humanitarian mission in 2nd year, when she was only 19 years old.
When she is not on an internship, Axelle logs her online lessons, morning, noon and evening, like Nicolas, her 19-year-old brother, who studies in an integrated prep school in engineering school, and spends her time revising.
While Jean-Jacques, the father, a confined cook, kills time by gardening and tinkering as much as possible, Sehrazat, secretary of the town hall, goes to the office every day. "There is software that I cannot carry and I did not want to take Internet power from children," she pleads. When she comes home, her face masked, the family has established a ritual since the start of confinement: “We have a little snack, we talk about our day. I appreciate the time we found together. The media scares us, Axelle teaches us things, it helps to balance. ”
"There is no point in finding that it is interminable, you have to do with it," she continues, aware, however, that her feelings would certainly be different without this small garden and the calm of the neighborhood. “Colleagues who live in a building tell me about the noise until no time, with children running because they are not tired… It screams a lot, not to mention all the kitchen smells that get mixed up as soon as mid-morning ... "
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