Ln Thursday, February 25, at 11:40 a.m., in Bischoffsheim in Alsace, an 88-year-old motorist was checked at 191 km / h. The octogenarian justified his speeding by his delay in the appointment for the anti-Covid-19 vaccine. If driving at 191 km / h on a secondary road is particularly open to criticism, that the one who, during the last year, has never thought of playing the Covid-19 “card” throws the first stone at it.
Who has not been tempted to abuse the “we are not sure of coming, it does not seem very prudent…”? It’s not called lying, just being sanitarily selective.
After a year of social distancing measures, we have to admit that we have a somewhat elastic way of applying them. Successive waves have allowed us to discover that the Covid-19 excuse allowed us to escape invitations with an argument that is frowned upon to question. We no longer say “I don’t want to go to your parents”, but “I don’t think it would be very reasonable”.
After all, where is the problem? With everything the Covid-19 has taken from us, this is the least it can help us out on occasion. You only need to dig a little and everyone will admit to using it. For example : “When a friend told me that she would come to dinner with her boyfriend whom I can’t stand, I kindly answered her that there would be too many”, admits Catherine, 58 years old and usually less rigorous on Covid-compatible seating plans.
“We understand very well”
Declining an invitation to a wedding, explaining the hand on the heart that we are not afraid for ourselves but for those that we would risk exposing, it is more chic than to admit that it will save us 800 kilometers by car on a weekend. We have even seen them organize their own wedding in the midst of a pandemic, so as not to have to invite distant uncles and old friends lost to follow-up.
In addition to preventing us from kissing those we do not want to kiss, the coronavirus allows us to avoid all these invitations to which we said yes only because we had no reason to say no. “I skipped a neighbor’s aperitif with this excuse”, admits Nicolas, who, at the height of the deception, even heard himself answer “We understand very well”…
A year of restrictions has revealed to us that we did not miss 50% of our social life before. “But I do not know yet what are the 50% that we want to find”, observes Line, who takes shelter behind a “We prefer not to see anyone because of the Covid”, not strictly true but which depersonalizes the refusals. She explained to her three children that with the risk of contagion, they could not invite friends over to sleep at the house at the moment. “It avoids having to make beds and tidy up the mess the next day. Oddly, they seem to find it normal that the argument does not prevent them from going to sleep with others. “
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