Reconfinement: "We will read and watch television, but we are fed up with it"

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Like a smell of spring ... but without the beautiful days.

Emmanuel Macron announced a national reconfinement on Wednesday evening, giving the impression to millions of French people to return last March.

The inhabitants will thus have to get used to living at home and finding something to do for at least four weeks, if not more.

The Parisians interviewed by Europe 1 are however divided between their good resolutions, such as going back to reading or gardening, and the weariness of a new confinement.

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Reading, television and gardening

The recipe for getting through confinement as less difficult as possible remains the same: find as many activities as possible to keep busy.

"I have a whole stock of books, I'm going to read them. I'm also going to do the fall cleaning," says Stéphanie.

"I recovered a video game console from my childhood, the Super Nintendo. I'm going to redo Mario and Zelda", abounds Gisèle.

Gérard is reassured by imagining the period which promises to be a small break on the scale of a lifetime.

"Compared to the current society where everything goes very quickly, that makes you think. We have a time that stops, while we never have time for ourselves. We are always running, working, go shopping, "he philosopher.

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"There are enough of them"

But for other Parisians, this new confinement is felt as a new ordeal.

"We will read, watch television and Netflix. We will also go around the block 50,000 times to stay within a radius of a kilometer. But there are enough because we travel a lot, we had lots of plans in Europe and Madagascar, "laments George, a retiree.

"During confinement, we had to cancel planned trips to Central Europe. So there are fed up but if we have to go through there, we will," he says.

"We're not going to revolutionize, we're too old for that."