The storefront of an English hospital.
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He went into a coma in early March 2020, knowing next to nothing about the coronavirus, he woke up in January 2021, in a pandemic world.
This is the story of Joseph Flavill, an English victim of a road accident on March 1 near Manchester, told by
The Sun
and taken up in France by
Le Parisien
.
Our colleagues recall that on March 1, we are still far from imagining confinement.
In France, and even more so in the United Kingdom, where this is not at all part of the plans of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
Joseph Flavill's aunt testifies, and we understand that the 19-year-old young man will only be informed gradually.
This will be part of his rehabilitation, even some signs are not mistaken: only his mother can come to visit him, because of health restrictions.
“We talk about it on the phone and we try to make him realize that we really want to be there by holding his hand, but we just can't do it,” says Flavill's aunt.
He will gradually discover a new world, made of masks, hydroalcoholic gel and where bars are closed, among others.
A story that is not unlike that of the film
Good bye, Lenin!
, released in 2003, on the end of the Eastern bloc.
In Wolfgang Becker's film, a fervent Communist East Berliner falls into a coma shortly before the fall of the wall, she wakes up shortly before reunification.
To avoid a shock to him by discovering that capitalism has already invaded East Germany, his son reproduces in the family apartment a fake GDR, still communist.
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