And happy new year of course!

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  • 2020 doing nothing like the other years, this New Year will be very, very special, sanitary measures oblige.

  • These include the closure of closed places open to the public, a recommendation of six people in the same place, and a curfew between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.

  • You told us how you still planned to celebrate the transition to the new year.

On December 31, we will all be happy and happy to say goodbye to the year 2020, its coronavirus pandemic, its confinements and all its restrictions.

Yet even this farewell will be tarnished by an arm-long list of sanitary measures that should make this New Year less fun than other years.

Small listing of this very special December 31: no restaurants, no bar, no theater, no cinema, no museum, curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., and strong government recommendation not to be more than six adults in the same place.

The number of people not always respected

But for Ariane, 22, there is no question of respecting this last instruction.

“We will party!

At twenty in our apartment, we will try to forget this dreary year with a lot of alcohol and laughter.

The respect of barrier gestures will probably be little respected but the New Year is only once a year!

We will just avoid having tea with Grandma in the days that follow, ”she answers our call for testimony.

Same fraud for Pierre, 30, the first of his breaches of the sanitary rules: “Since the start of this health crisis I have respected all the rules and I am very much on all this.

I planned my New Year with friends during the reconfinement announcements, and this time around I don't intend to ignore my life and my plans.

We will be more than ten adults and we will take the risk in order to have, for once, a small dose of happiness.

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Respect for barrier gestures

For others, on the contrary, health above all, this New Year will be one of barrier gestures.

It is the choice of Vanessa, 32, who sets the tone: “You don't want to party because it will not be the same, moreover you have to be very careful so you might as well stay at home.

The big night will be when this is all over.

Ditto for Alex, 41, who does not want to make an exception to the sanitary rule: "We stay at home with my wife and my children.

No question of having spent nearly a year respecting the rules to send everything out for a New Year's Eve.

It will be festive, but only between us.

"And we add Francine, 63, for the synthetic version:" We will respect the sanitary instructions as we have been doing since the start of confinement.

It is recklessness to break the rules.

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And then there are those for whom this curfew does not change anything.

Friends who traditionally celebrate it with less than six people and who sleep at one because too drunk to take the wheel during the night.

Karl says: "For us nothing changes, we just planned to bring mattresses to sleep with those who organize the New Year. We will leave their home after 6 hours.

"The young thirty is however against these measures:" Young and in good health, we are in no way exposed.

As for the chains of contamination, everyone is responsible for the people they see.

Humanity does not suffer from any restriction.

"In the category nothing changes, we will appreciate the succine spirit of Yves, 43 years old:" A Netflix evening ".

New years ... atypical

And because you still have a rich panorama of readers, we have come across some fairly original programs.

Aim a little for Thierry, 63 years old: “The New Year will be like the other years on the boat in La Rochelle.

With friends also present on their boats.

After Christmas Eve, everyone can join their boat despite the curfew, as driving on the pontoons is not controlled.

So I don't feel aggrieved by the government's liberticidal measures.

"Or Thomas:" Living in Alsace and not far from the forest, it will be an evening in a refuge and with fireworks "Less magical but still original, Lucette, 78 years old," Christmas and New Year, I take 2 sleeping pills and in bed!

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So there you have it for your evening ideas.

Come on, we will conclude with a quote from the author Jean Dubuffet to put all this into perspective: "Life is a much more interesting party than the pseudo-parties that we institute to make it forget".

And good New Year's Eve anyway!

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