Chappatte, a feverish year to chew the virus

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This damn March 7, the Covid entered my head

", writes Patrick Chappatte in his excellent report drawn

At the heart of the wave,

chronicle in real time of the chaotic beginnings of the pandemic.

A year ago almost to the day, a simple phone call will plunge the press cartoonist into the coronavirus crisis.

If a few drawings on the subject had already been published in various newspapers before that date, nothing unduly worried the Swiss with 35 years of profession.

The world of confinement and solitude is that of the cartoonist.

We are the pioneers of teleworking.

This virus does not change much in my daily life

Patrick Chappatte

“My very first drawing dates from January 29, 2020 in

Le Canard enchaîné,” recalls the designer.

The scene takes place in China, on traffic prohibited in this city of Wuhan whose name we learn.

Like everyone else, I look at the events with irony, I consider them as distant “chinoiseries” which will not reach us.

Even if I remained on the lookout, animated by the presentiment that the thing awaited us.

Everything changed for me on March 7 with the phone call from Professor Didier Pittet

”.

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