VSIt would be nice if we knew when entering an age group what we know when we leave it, said an old mutual fund advertisement. The same maxim could apply to Covid-19. It would be precious to be able to capitalize on what the last confinement taught us when we enter the next one. However, when new instructions arrive, no manager fights to announce which past recommendations have been disowned.
The time that the new recommendations are disseminated, some continue to dance the wrong time health measures.
No one dares to take the responsibility of mentioning those on which we can now ease off. No health authority has come to say that we can now stop cleaning our packages. No TV expert who recommended quarantining their shopping bags when they returned from the market said that we could now save some of this energy for something else.
So that the time that the new recommendations are disseminated, some continue to dance out of time health measures. Like this high school principal, whose classes were in half-gauges, who announces the return to full enrollment, just in time for the explosion of the local incidence rate.
Others find themselves trapped by over-calculating. It is the publisher who, to avoid confinement, postponed the release of the book scheduled for spring 2020 to October 2020, Gaumont who shifts the promotion of the film by Valérie Lemercier inspired by Celine Dion, Aline, from one epidemic peak to another. Finally, some dance out of time, discouraged by the millefeuille of health recommendations or because they did not know how to interpret enigmatic sentences (“Children are not the main engine of the epidemic”).
How do we recognize them?
They still have lag containment. This time, they went to the hairdresser the day before the confinement of the 16 departments to find that, ultimately, the salons remained open. They finally received, to occupy their days, the bread machine and the sewing machine out of stock a year ago, to hear Gabriel Attal advise them to spend as much time as possible outside. They wash their hands “Every hour for thirty seconds”, as Edouard Philippe asked them, when to open the windows, as Jean Castex repeated to them. For months, they have gotten into the habit of putting their masks on the outside and taking them off once they get to their friends’ house. They had dinner with bottles of hydroalcoholic gel on the table when it was necessary to ventilate. They ordered pretty fabric masks and received them when they were deemed insufficient for the variants. They pushed the family Christmas party back to spring, just in time for the third wave.
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