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"They retreated in fear, in madness": when the Covid breaks relations

2021-02-09T21:31:08.426Z


TESTIMONIALS - Forced by distance and fear, many French people have seen their social fabric unravel, plunging them into deep loneliness. Some of them have agreed to confide in Le Figaro.


Already one year.

The Covid-19 epidemic, which was hoped to be temporary at the start of the first confinement, has firmly established itself in the daily life of the French, causing losses and disruption in their friendships, love and family.

Le Figaro

went to meet those who, constrained by distance and fear, saw their social fabric cut open, revealing a dangerous loneliness.

To read also: "I do not speak to her anymore, she is a conspirator": when the Covid pushes to sort out her relationships

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Everyone has gone in their own direction

": the difficulty of maintaining relationships

Superficial or nascent, poorly developed relationships are the first to suffer from health restrictions and the danger of epidemics.

The closure of my school in March 2020 deprived me of a whole bunch of great people with whom I had already drawn plans on the comet,

” says Pierre, a 19-year-old Parisian.

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Not very sociable

" by nature, the student in history faculty relied on his new friends to "

start a new life, far from the mockery of high school

" and his "

complex family situation

"

,

where arguments are reigns.

"

Everyone finally went in his direction,

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Source: lefigaro

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