In front of Koh-Lanta, this Friday, they were five, three the next day to rehearse a street jazz choreography, four, on Saturday afternoon, to drink shots in the Marais, two, in the evening and ten, on Sunday, in brunch in an apartment in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
It was his first weekend in confinement.
Valentin, a 28-year-old web designer, admits it, it's true, he slacked off.
“I chose to get better even if it meant taking risks,” he said, after a depressive episode, which had become “claustrophobic” in his 20 m2 studio, where he no longer had the strength to open the shutters.
Until the beginning of the year, this very sociable brunette followed the instructions to the letter, depriving himself of others, anxious by this virus which caused him panic attacks.
Then he resumed dancing, his passion, first with a mask.
It bothered him, so he took it off.
“It unlocked me,” he says.
Around him, many had the Covid-19, a friend had a very big migraine and the others, nothing serious.
He was offered an evening in a small committee, then a second and Valentin admits it: “I took a liking to it.
Is he no longer afraid?
Yes, for his parents.
As soon as he went down to see them in Nîmes, he isolated himself a fortnight earlier.
But more for him.
“I understood that if I had it, I wasn't going to die of it.
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Like him, Laurent, 37, did not really rest this weekend.
Two dinners, two lunches and a snack with twenty parents and ten children, outdoors, in a Parisian park.
If this jeweler has retained reflexes, such as washing his hands many times, he admits, living at a distance from others is no longer manageable.
“It's not I-don't care, but the instinct to live normally takes over.
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"If I live, it's now"
"It's either that or we go crazy," resumes Clémence, who allows herself a few outings.
In the heights of Aix-en-Provence, where this mother of two lives, there are never any police checks, her husband has had the Covid-19 twice without her catching it.
So she is not afraid of the virus.
“And then, during the first confinement, we had no choice, everything was closed.
There, kindergarten and nursery are open.
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As if the reality of the epidemic was less palpable.
“I say to myself, if I live, it's now.
“This weekend, she drank glasses at her 33th birthday with 18 friends.
Two weeks ago, Agathe, a 24-year-old Parisian restaurateur, was still dancing with 25 friends in an apartment until 5 a.m.
The neighbors didn't say anything.
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And before ?
"Before, there was no party," she sweeps.
Since then, the severity of the first months of the epidemic has faded.
“When I walk my dog in the Tuileries, I see 50 people, of all ages, with the mask on their chin, my parents' friends also have dinners where they play cards.
Nothing is respected.
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And this third confinement does not change anything.
"We are supposed to stay at home, but we can go out ... and the curfew has even passed at 7 pm," she is surprised.
It's ten times cooler than last week!
The rules don't make sense.
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