Hear the world change with Sophie Larmoyer. Around the world, Europe 1 reporters and correspondents explore and tell the daily life of other cultures, their perception of current events and of our country. Long-format reports and fascinating guests. A sound journey to open the mind and discover the unknown.
Deconfinement: the “new normal”
In China, a deconfinement under bell
In China after 3 months of strict confinement, the return to life is done with a thousand precautions and under close surveillance. In Beijing, the temperature of the inhabitants is regularly checked in the street and it is impossible to go out without your phone provided with your QR code. True sesame, it is also a kind of electronic bracelet which informs the authorities of all your actions. Travel remains limited and ultra controlled. And it is in this context that a semblance of social life slowly resumes, in the restaurant, at the hairdresser, in shopping centers.
Explanations from Sébastien Le Belzic , correspondent in China
The next world, in Venice…
In a Venice that is slowly starting to deconfine, journalist and writer Arièle Buteaux imagines the world after the epidemic. In the silent city, rid of hordes of tourists, the Venetians have reclaimed their city, despite the confinement. Nature has taken over and the water in the canals has become surprisingly transparent. Arièle Butaux hopes that from this forced immobility will spring a new life turned towards the essential, at a less sustained pace and where profit would not be the key word. A new essential balance.
Testimony of the writer and journalist Arièle Butaux , author of A midnight, my lips are dead, Editions Écriture
A book in the world
Nicolas Carreau continues his tour of the world of the great classics during this period of confinement. This week, we are escaping with science fiction and the master of the multi genre adapted to cinema: Philip K. Dick! And yet Ubik , his masterpiece, was never brought to the screen. Written in 1966, he imagines a future where everything is minted, from the opening of a door to the fact of taking a shower. But the most disturbing are the characters who move in parallel universes, so much so that they no longer even know if they are alive or dead!
Nicolas Carreau , presents Ubik by Philipp K. Dick
The "elders" facing the Covid-19
In Quebec, the lack of personnel is responsible for a hecatomb in retirement homes
The question of protecting our elders against the coronavirus arises everywhere. Most fragile in the face of the virus, most governments have chosen to isolate them from the rest of society. An isolation that does not necessarily protect them from the virus. Quebec has had this painful experience, which discovers the atrocious living conditions in certain Long-Term Care Accommodation Centers (the equivalent of our nursing homes), with sometimes dozens of hidden deaths. The reason: the absence of nursing staff. No less than 9,500 are missing, some because they are infected but most of them have just gotten rid of the virus.
Erwan Rimbod lives in Quebec where he works as a computer-aided designer. Listener of the "Carnets du Monde", he testifies to the emotion aroused by this drama.
In Brazil, poetry and solidarity for the elderly
In Brazil, a chain of volunteers has been formed to get the elderly out of their isolation during this confinement. Everything started from the culture secretariat in Rio de Janeiro and in a short time, it was more than 3000 volunteers who signed up for the “a story by phone” program. These volunteers call elderly people to read poetry and take the time to talk. This is certainly a way to break the isolation of our elders but also to combat obscurantism under the presidency of Jaïr Bolsonaro.
Story by Marie Naudascher , correspondent in Brazil
My life in India during confinement
Alexandra Aluk , listener of "Carnets du Monde", has lived for 19 years in the Orissa region, located on the east coast of India. In this poor region, officials quickly understood that they could not cope if the virus spread among the population. Very quickly, confinement was put in place. In the town of Konarak, where Alexandra lives, many food stalls provided food for the homeless. They were taken care of by the authorities when the very large number of stray animals, mainly cows, and bulls, are rescued by a group of volunteers who come to feed them every day.
Testimony of Alexandra Aluk , a Frenchwoman who has lived in India for 19 years. She wrote to Carnets du Monde via email address: lescarnetsdumonde@europe1.fr
Travel to Autistan
Josef Schovanec , philosopher-traveler and autistic sprinkler shares with us his slightly different view of the world. What could be more pleasant for an autistic than a world which advocates social distancing as the first rule of life in "common". Living at a distance is a very happy idea for Josef.