Beware of the shots of these crowds of joggers who did not date from yesterday

• Misleading photos of a crowd of Parisians jogging after 7 p.m. strongly criticize the measures taken by the city of Paris to restrict the jogging schedule since Wednesday.
• Real videos, less caricatured, nevertheless reflect a real influx of runners in certain places of the capital and stir up the fear of a spread of the coronavirus.
• A Belgian-Dutch study recommends distances between runners or cyclists well beyond the 1 to 2 m usually indicated. French specialists put things into perspective.

“The joggers invaded the streets after 7pm. With this legend, a snapshot illustrating articles dated this Thursday on Parisian radio sites like voltage.fr or latina.fr was taken up on social networks, then quickly went viral. We see a group of very many runners, one beside the other, without respecting the social distances imposed since the epidemic of coronavirus, go up a street called Parisian.

Too many joggers? - Facebook screenshot

Since the measures taken by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, prohibiting jogging between 10h and 19h from this Wednesday, the controversy swells over the risk of seeing too many runners outside these hours. Widely shared on Facebook, this photo, presented more as being taken from a video, angered Internet users: "And it is because of this that the rest of France is being punished, you will get your wand from bread and you have 135 euros of PV "," Long live France, there are no more idiots than the French and French "," The Parisians, big selfish, they spread the Covid, it is still one of the most affected departments. I understand why now. "

On Twitter, another captioned photo "Paris, 7:01 pm" and commented by: "You have the impression that donkeys rule sheep", also circulated:

😱👎🏽😅You feel like donkeys rule sheep 🙈🙉🙊 # containment #COVID ー 19 #jogging #joggeurs #Paris #Pandemie #chloriquine pic.twitter.com/LA1s7ySwap

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A reverse image search on Google shows that the first photo has been taken frequently for several years already, to illustrate photos of marathon announcements, such as that of June 23, 2019 in Angers. Credited Pixabay by voltage.fr and latino.fr (who have since changed photos to illustrate their article), it was integrated by this bank of royalty-free images on February 1, 2016. On Wikimedia Commons, it was put line in January 2016, described as a photo of a marathon in Brussels (Belgium) and attributed to a photographer by the name of Martins Zemlickis.

The second photo is an illustration of the Paris marathon on April 8, 2018.

The two articles on Parisian radio sites actually refer mainly to videos of independent journalists who filmed the Ourcq canal and the Bassin de la Villette, in Paris (19th), on Wednesday evening, then broadcast the images. on Twitter.

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The videos were relayed on the social network with comments, again, very critical: "What if the effect obtained was the opposite of the desired effect? "," Why allow things that are dangerous all day long in the evening? Well done Hidalgo. "In the show C à vous , the mayor of Paris reacted to these images on Thursday evening by calling on everyone's sense of responsibility:" If at 7 p.m. there are too many people, you have to go out a little later. We can also run at night. "

#Confinement: the Mayor of Paris @Anne_Hidalgo reacts to the images of the streets of the capital taken by storm by joggers from 7 p.m. ⬇️ # CàVous pic.twitter.com/eRmligjrTx

A "reasonable" distance of 1.50 m between runners

The controversy illustrates the fear of greater coronavirus contamination between joggers. On RMC Sports, Robert Sebbag, doctor attached to the infectious and tropical diseases department of the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, denounced on March 24 the "major risk" taken by occasional runners: "People improvise and start preparing for the Games Olympic. I repeat once again: when we jog - I'm not talking about a short walk - we are in hyperventilation. We spit a lot more, we spit, we certainly have it on our hands. When you get home, you touch the door handles, the elevator button or the stair railing. "

A recent Belgian-Dutch study as well as numerical simulations carried out by the American company Ansys conclude that there is a need for a higher social distance than that, currently recommended, of one meter. Based on these results of this study (not yet subject to peer validation), the Futura Sciences website explains that runners should respect a distance of at least three meters and cyclists, ten meters.

Jogging is a highly contagious physical activity for the spread in aerosols of a virus like #COVID ー 19 according to this Belgian study.https: //t.co/UuBlLQTLNu

Without going that far, Marie-Paule Kiény, virologist and director of research at Inserm, replies to 20 Minutes that “1.50 m distance between joggers seems reasonable. The problem is that in places where many joggers cross paths, there may be occasional crowds and bottlenecks. The rule [decided by the Paris city hall] may also seek to avoid the misleading feeling that "everything is fine", which could lead to less attention being paid to protective measures. "Bérénice Léoutre-Falmagne, sports doctor, interviewed by Le Parisien, also moderates:" What is proven is that contact must last a few minutes for the virus to be able to be transmitted between two people. If you meet someone for less than a minute, the likelihood of contagion is minimal. "

The last word is for this anonymous Parisian jogger, who has been practicing daily since the start of confinement: "This measure makes it easier to mix joggers and non-joggers at least in the morning." However during the week, the day, I think it's bullshit. I was almost alone at 2pm on weekdays… ”

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