The next world? Hassan does not imagine it different from that of today. "Nothing will ever change," he says, disillusioned. It must be said that the daily life of this 28-year-old young man is the same since the first day of confinement imposed because of the Covid-19 epidemic. Deliverer, he continues to work as before ... Or almost.
"Now I'm a little scared," he slides as he waits - without mask - in front of the intercom of a building on Boulevard de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement. "The only real change is that my clients are all at home," he laughs.
A fatalism that most Parisians are far from sharing. Nathalie and Philip cross the Bir-Hakeim bridge with a full shopping cart. "I do the shopping for my father," said the 63-year-old retiree. They “hope” that a new world will emerge from this crisis.
"It would be good if everyone did not come back to everyone for themselves as before", begins to dream Nathalie, citing pell-mell solidarity initiatives launched spontaneously around her since the beginning of confinement. “The son of a friend of mine has a food truck and he feeds drivers on highways for free. Another volunteer kitchen for hospitals… ”
And this former speech therapist in psychiatric service, who retired 5 years ago disgusted by the state of the public hospital, crosses her fingers: "There has been an awareness of the importance of our health system … ”
"A boulevard for Marine Le Pen"
A few meters away, Catherine, 58, a seamstress who makes disguises in her apartment in the 15th arrondissement as before, is much more pessimistic. "When we see that an emergency law upsets the Constitution in a week, that authoritarian governments are getting stronger all over the world ... There is cause for concern. What is being prepared is a boulevard for Marine Le Pen, ”she alarmed.
On the other side of the bridge, in the opulent 16th arrondissement, Pauline, who has just been tested in a laboratory - "because I have all the symptoms of coronavirus", she underlines - is convinced of this : "The world will change! Is delighted this employee of a consulting company in sustainable development.
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“Companies that have a social and environmental approach are doing better than the others at the moment. Before, my clients were doing sustainable development for image reasons. Today, they have understood that their survival depended on it. For their supplies, they realized that it was better to have a local base. They also have in mind that humans will become essential. In short, Pauline is convinced that she will have some work to do at the end of the confinement: "We are already thinking about the next world in my business".
About ten kilometers away, in the popular twentieth district, Djilali hopes that the side effect of the coronavirus will be a challenge to globalization. “We have to be less dependent on other countries for our production. If it is, North Korea is doing better than us today! He laughs. And the young man of 30 years to continue laughing: "And yet, in life, I am a trader! "
Like an awareness then. Just like his desire to consume less and to be more… homebody in the world of tomorrow: “I live in a 20 square meters with my girlfriend. At first, we thought it would be hard. And, in fact, no. All of this taught me to stay at home and love it. "
"I buy local now"
Less consumption, or in any case different, it is also the creed of Jean who goes with his shopping bag of an organic sign in front of rue de l'Avenir, a… dead end of 30 meters long nestled in the twentieth borough. “I do my shopping differently, I buy local now. For me, the envelope is taken, I know that I can make a financial effort for that. This crisis has shown how fragile our society is and that we must regain our independence ”, believes this freelance in computer security.
He hopes that the next few days will make it possible to "put everything back on the table" and to make a distinction "between what is marketable and what is not, such as health or education". And it is especially to his two grown daughters that this fifties thinks: “I would like them not to have working conditions as precarious as ours. "
A few streets further, in the green city of the Hermitage, Jennifer walks her cocker spaniel Obi One. This 34-year-old young woman has already changed her habits: “I boycott Amazon and all the big groups that have done nothing to help in this crisis. And she intends not to stop there. “The screens all day, I can't take it anymore. As soon as the confinement is finished, I stop! “Assures this… digital designer, ecologist to the tips of the nails. And around her, her friends also want to change everything: “I have lots of friends in their thirties who work in marketing and who find that their job no longer makes any sense. They want to do useful things with their hands. "
Eric, the postman, looks at her kindly. But he doesn't believe in the big night. “We just realized that we were very little in the face of a small virus. And we don't even know what's going to happen in a month… ”