Emmanuel Macron could announce a general reconfinement of the French population this Wednesday, October 28, at 8 p.m.
But without even waiting for the president's speech, many Ile-de-France residents have already planned their departure from the Paris region, fearing to relive the infernal isolation they experienced between March and May.
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It was psychologically hard
,” says
Figaro
Anna, 24, confined in her parents' small apartment in Levallois-Perret, during the first confinement.
“
I am not to be pitied, I did not lose my job, my relatives and I were not sick.
But staying locked at home, in a bubble of 60 square meters, 12 if you count only my room which also serves as an office, it's stressful, and a source of shouting games!
», She says.
“
And all these police patrols, with each exit, it's oppressive.
"She will not live it twice: from this Wednesday evening, Thursday if"
Emmanuel Macron is lenient
», She will go to Normandy, in the second home of her parents, located in the charming village of Saint-Aubin-des-Hayes.
For at least a month, she hopes.
“
The air is cleaner, we breathe, we feel free!
".
Anna's parents' garden, in Normandy.
Anna.
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It is sometimes pleasant to escape urban stress
"
A feeling of freedom shared by Christine, 43, who will leave her apartment in the 13th arrondissement of Paris on Thursday to confine herself to her residence in Senonches (Eure-et-Loire).
“
There, at least, I could enjoy my large garden, my flowers, the animals of the neighbors!
It will change me from the small balcony with a view of the slabs of the Olympics.
"A confinement that smells like the holidays?
"
We're not going to lie to each other, it's sometimes pleasant to flee urban stress, traffic, screams ... I will continue to work from there, of course!"
Quips the communications manager
, but with a lot of weight. less, despite my two children.
Especially since my boss wasn't too keen on telecommuting, so I had to go almost every day.
Now he has his back to the wall!
"
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Teleworking, Julie has not experienced it much either: "
We talk a lot about more 'flexible', less 'restrictive' confinement.
I'm afraid the bosses will take advantage of this to prevent us from going to the countryside
”.
The 30-year-old computer developer, however, has already planned to go Thursday morning to her companion's house, in Barbâtre, in Vendée.
It doesn't matter what his leadership tells him.
“
Not only will it be more pleasant than my apartment in the 17th arrondissement to work, to live, but in addition, the health situation requires it.
If we are currently at 500 deaths per day, it is precisely because teleworking is not imposed, that people crowd in the metro, that the curfew is not respected!
"
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A bad for a good
"
Yélena Laprie, 24, will leave Montrouge for Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne) as soon as possible, “
at the very moment when Macron will give us the starting signal!
""
In a 20 square meter room with my boyfriend, I'm only waiting for one thing: to flee!
“Trainee, she will confine herself to her mother-in-law, accompanied by her boyfriend and her brother-in-law.
“
Anyway, if I stay in my apartment to work, I go crazy.
At least there I would have a real workspace.
"Already contaminated by the coronavirus last month, the young woman deplores a too late confinement:"
The curfew was useless, I do not understand this step.
Worse, it gave hope to a good part of the population, which relaxed!
"And to deplore:"
I take the metro every day for an hour and a half, and it has deteriorated in recent weeks: I see more and more people without a mask, who do not wash their hands ... Containment is bad for good.
"
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It's true that the situation in public transport, with the crowds at rush hour, it's hell,
" also deplores Levis Athegni, who lives in the city of Beaudottes, in Sevran (Seine-Saint- Denis).
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This is also why I'm going to Rouen, to get away from all this mess,
" he said, referring to the possible "
more flexible
"
confinement
which might not improve the situation in trains and subways.
“
Then in Rouen, the police will surely be less demanding than in Paris.
"
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Virgile Laurent-Durand, he judges this new confinement "
disgusting for people like
(him)
who, since February, have put aside their social life
". If he will migrate with his girlfriend to Biarritz, "
where the contaminations are less
", it is not necessarily cheerful: "
A part of the population is totally responsible. And I also blame the media, the continuous information channels, for having relayed the words of these 'reassurance', professors, philosophers, who minimized this second wave. It is because of them that we are where we are today.
"The owner of a start-up, 26 years old and working in Paris, does not believe in a"
duration of four weeks
", as mentioned here and there. “
The situation is catastrophic, I think we left until Christmas.
"And to conclude:"
At least, I will be close to the sea, with less people, less pollution, and less nervousness. It will be fine. Until the next deconfinement, and until the third confinement.
"
