Parisians think of the exodus before the great confinement

• The coronavirus epidemic continues to progress in France. According to the latest report communicated this Sunday, 5,423 people are contaminated and 127 died. The government has started stage 3 of the epidemic.
• Emmanuel Macron will speak on Monday evening at 8 p.m., just four days after announcing the closure of nurseries and schools.
• Anxious to be confined to their homes, many Parisians want to go into exile, even if it means participating in the spread of the epidemic.

Insidious, fear first spread on social networks. WhatsApp in particular. It was Vincent who opened the floodgates by transferring a first message received from who knows where: “Curfew at 6 pm. »« Neighborhood dams. "Army," could be read. And this question: "Can someone confirm me?" Florian maybe? He is just waiting for news from his "military sister" but she has not yet had his "meeting". Thibaut does not support his anymore. She drinks it from messages from sources as diverse as a "firefighter colonel", "the Senate" or a "doctor friend" ...

The only certainty is that Emmanuel Macron must address the French, this Monday at 8 p.m. And as he already announced the closure of schools just four days ago, many fear that the restrictive measures will be tightened. The coronavirus epidemic is progressing at high speed. And experts advocate the most complete containment. "Do you think it's better to leave now?" "Do you have any info?" Fear is now spread directly by phone, when the network allows it.

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Airbnb and vacation home rentals…

A few hours before the new speech by the President of the Republic, many Ile-de-France residents think of the exodus so as not to get stuck in the capital. "All my discussion threads talk about that," says a Parisian thirty-something. And too bad if this behavior contributes to spreading the virus when it is precisely necessary to contain it, according to experts. “We have 90m² and three bedrooms. Difficult to stay locked in the apartment with the three children, ”explains Vincent. This administrative and financial director did not confirm the rumor that he helped to spread but he started to look at the rentals available on Airbnb. "What holds me back is that hospitals are clogged up in the provinces ..."

I hope the guy with the subtitles is well prepared this time 😅 because we are tackling a serious subject tonight anyway #confinementtotal #ResterChezVous # COVID19 #Macron

Pierre-Henry does not ask himself this question. He thought of his grandmother's holiday home in Brittany. Empty since last August. "We just have to go get the keys." My grandmother can throw them away from her window so that we don't approach her… ”The problem is that he was not released by his employer. An engineer in a large company, he admits that he has trouble concentrating. "In any case, if we stop for weeks [in the event of total containment], we will have to start all over what we are currently doing. There is no point in continuing to work… ”

"We load the car with all the food we have"

Work seems to be going into the background, at the moment. Lawyer in a large Parisian firm, Jean explains that he also thought about returning to his family with his partner and their child. "But it is risky to land with our parents of 70 years arriving from Paris ..." Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, did not say anything else, Sunday evening, on the sidelines of election night. Referring to the family outings he attended under the Sunday sun, the minister begged the French to respect "social restrictions".

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The message seems to have passed. "If we leave, we load the car with all the food we have in the cupboards and then we lock ourselves up ...", continues Pierre-Henry. Leaves, for that, having to endure a final phase of promiscuity: one that will not fail to occur on major highways shortly after the presidential announcements.

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