For almost a year, the mask has become embedded in our daily life.
Everywhere in stores, in the office or in transport, faces are hidden.
This piece of fabric of a few square centimeters, blue or black, has even become the symbol of the epidemic.
Today, the French are eager to get rid of it.
Not only because its use is restrictive, but above all because its disappearance would mean that the Covid is finally behind us.
No more masks, no more viruses!
Turn the page.
To see the color of lipstick again in the street or the sketch of a smile would then be the promise of a return to a normal life.
So the French are getting impatient: give us a date! Alas, Emmanuel Macron gave no horizon in his deconfinement calendar. Cautious, the Minister of Health launches “in the summer”, as a sign of hope, being careful not to be more precise. Epidemiologists consider that we should wait until 60% of the population is immunized. We are far from it. To date, only 16% of French people are fully vaccinated (38% with a first dose).
However, it's a safe bet that in closed places, at school, at the cinema or on public transport, our faces will still be masked at the start of the September school year.
Maybe even beyond because we will have chosen it.
The report in New York underlines it: some find it difficult to do without.
In public transport, in the midst of crowded travelers, there remains a protective shield.
For many women in the street, it puts a distance with the gaze that is sometimes too focused on some.
And then with the Covid, we finally realized how a disease was spread: nothing better than this screen to avoid flu, colds or gastroenteritis.
Tomorrow, the mask will undoubtedly be an accessory like any other, at the bottom of our bag next to the cell phone.
We will take it out to protect us from winter viruses or too embarrassing promiscuity.
