It's the big day this Wednesday, with the reopening of shops, places of culture and restaurant terraces. If it is a relief for millions of French people, for others, it is a source of anguish. These people prefer to keep their habits adopted during confinement, because they are afraid of the virus or of a new epidemic rebound.

"Going back to the terrace for a cup of coffee means reinfection, so I prefer to drink it on my terrace, in complete safety."

Mathieu contracted Covid-19 seven months ago.

After three weeks of intense fatigue, he was hospitalized with acute respiratory distress.

For this 42-year-old man, it was a huge fright, and the consequences are still very present.

So as he is not yet vaccinated, he is afraid of catching the disease a second time.

"I almost died, I almost lost my family, obviously I'm afraid," he says. 

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Mathieu is nevertheless convinced that professionals will implement and ensure that the health protocol is respected.

What he fears more is the relaxation of the French.

A feeling shared by Yäel, an executive in a Parisian company.

For this young woman, it will eventually be a café on the terrace, but nothing more.

"I'm not yet comfortable going to concerts for example, that's not what I want. I wouldn't want to participate in a fourth wave. There we are not. to meet all together in July 14 mode, "she explains.

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"You have to go gradually"

Experts call it cabin syndrome.

It is the fear of getting out of one's confinement and facing the world again.

A completely understandable fear, according to Doctor Christophe Debien, psychiatrist at the Lille University Hospital.

"Our adaptability has been put to the test for more than a year, between confinement, deconfinement, semi-deconfinement and reconfinement. We had to adapt in our daily, professional and family life", specifies- he does.

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"So having a reluctance to adapt to a huge change - since there, all of a sudden, we find an almost classic life - that's normal," adds the psychiatrist.

"It's going to take a little time. We have to go gradually, respect everyone's limits and accompany those who have trouble. Maybe we'll go to the café terrace on the corner and not in the center. town. Steps like that. We have to go through the steps together above all, because what is important is to be together. "

For these French people who do not see this deconfinement very favorably, the only sesame to relax a little and reassure themselves, it will be vaccination.