Holidays and Covid-19: "Caution and common sense"

“Holidays, I forget everything”, that old dance floor refrain that alone sums up the contemporary summer mentality, is more out of date this year than ever: the Covid has been there.

For half a century, like a ritual, the vacationer, as he changes horizon, also changes behavior, forgetting the constraints, clothing and schedules. Sociologists have written a lot about this phase when modern man is metamorphosed under the effect of the sun and sea water.

It is in this context that the reiterated appeals of the political and health authorities intervene for wisdom. They hammer out words that have become saws for the French: "barrier gestures", "social distancing".

However, it is clear that in the July sun, the sententious recommendations are difficult to impose. A second wave, why not, but on a surf spot… It's obvious, when you smell the air of the holidays, how can you imagine that it is encumbered by a virus?

So this speech

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