Coronavirus: when the crisis highlights the vices and virtues of digital solidarity

As the decrees reduce the range of possibilities, a new solidarity seems to flourish. "There are classically, during epidemics, spheres of solidarity which are the family, then the immediate environment and the village," says Patrice Bourdelais, historian specializing in epidemics. Spheres today broken. Can social networks, instant messaging or video chats take over?

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Christian Staerklé, researcher in social psychology at the Unil, judges that this epidemic could "lead to a situation where new technologies strengthen the quality of existing relationships. We can think that people will invent forms of communication (joint meals through screens, board games played at a distance, piano lessons, etc.). ” "We have every interest in increasing social ties, even if it may seem artificial at the start," says Bruno Rocher, psychiatrist.

This crisis will reveal social fractures: lonely, elderly, fragile people, those who are not `` connected '' will particularly suffer from isolation

But beware, notes Christian Staerklé: "People with

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