There are the madmen of hygiene with reddened hands by dint of rubbing, the "Mr. Know-it-alls ”who improvise epidemiologists and the anguished who play Nostradamus. The paranos have stocked up on pasta for six months while the philosophers reread La Peste or Le Hussard on the roof .
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Whether it is to share an ancestral fear of contagion or display a disillusioned irony, the coronavirus has been invited into French conversations for several weeks. We have classified their reactions into seven families. A well-understood, non-exhaustive breakdown that is subject to change
But why are our reactions to the epidemic so numerous, strong and contrasting? Should we see the influence of social networks, which act as a magnifying glass on the spread of the epidemic? “What happens to us today was the common lot of humanity for millions of years. Until 1900, infectious diseases were the main cause
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