“Frankly, from the start, I don't complain, I tell myself that we are making efforts for a good cause, but there… really, I do not understand.
As illustrated by Marielle, a 31-year-old Marseillaise, the expected introduction of a curfew at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Bouches-du-Rhône, despite the protests of local elected officials, does not help the ambient climate on the Canebière.
The South Department should join the red zone on Sunday, even if the news has not yet been formalized.
Nine other departments are expected to be placed under tight curfew in the coming hours, or 25 in all.
More bad news after the postponement of the reopening of closed places (bars, restaurants…) and the prospect of a new turn of the screw next week.
What to lower the morale of the French a little more.
"It's going to be a year and it's starting to be long and heavy," continues the actress and theater teacher, who was able to continue to intervene in schools, but had to cancel her classes outside.
You no longer project yourself.
You survive more than you live.
I had a big slack at the end of the year.
Fortunately, I am doing the job that I love and I try to give a little happiness.
If I give up, how will my students end up?
"
"We put aside our social life for a long time"
The spleen does not affect only the departments now under enhanced surveillance.
While Dawn narrowly escapes it for the second consecutive week, Emmanuelle, assistant notary in the Troy conurbation, admits to being "a little desperate".
The 40-year-old young woman had to put aside tennis, the gym and especially aperitifs and dinners with friends: “I stopped watching the news, because apart from the bad news… 6 pm or 8 pm hours, that doesn't change much.
Everything is closed anyway.
We put aside our social life for a long time.
"
“We have trouble projecting ourselves,” she continues.
We would like to go skiing at the beginning of March.
If we get there, maybe we'll talk about our summer travel plans that we have totally put aside.
Madeleine, 88, should also see the neighboring department of Yonne undergo the new restrictions.
The retiree believes from her village of Villemer that "it is especially for young people that it is painful".
While waiting for a vaccine, she and her husband stall their requirements during the day: “We go out little, half an hour, three quarters of an hour for a race or an appointment with the hairdresser, and we go home.
"
The grandmother of six grandchildren admits having braved the curfew to go to her daughter who lives… 50 m away, on New Year's Eve.
"We will not do it twice, or in an emergency with a dispensation," she promises with a smile.
Heavy consumers of cultural outings are undoubtedly the most affected by paralysis.
The importance of not being alone
In Paris, Dominique, 47, crosses the chain of bad news like a tunnel: “I don't see much difference between confinement and a curfew.
It's boring, the same.
"A reconfinement" would not change anything "in his eyes, even if this bachelor, great fan of cinema, theater and music, slips:" I will go to work, because I learned from the first confinement that it was not necessary not stay at home alone.
Life must not come out of your life ... Otherwise, mistrust sets in.
"
Mathilde, 29, also likes to go out.
This Friday late afternoon, having a drink in the street with friends, she sums up her feeling: "The curfew is worse than confinement, because with the certificates, we could move. .
I have been looking for a job since this summer and several companies have told me that they will take me before canceling because of the context… ”
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The young DJ also mixed in parties.
She lost both a source of secondary income and the pleasure of this universe.
She is busy defending the cultural sector in demonstrations and despite an optimistic temperament sums up the feeling of her band of friends: "The arrival of the Thursday announcements anguishes a little everyone".