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This a very weird time to be away from home. As a french citizen in the U.S., the first weeks of the pandemic felt life everything was on hold, delayed but cert...
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This a very weird time to be away from home. As a french citizen in the U.S., the first weeks of the pandemic felt life everything was on hold, delayed but certainly coming. I could sense the tention in the air as the first voices raised to express their concern about this disease that had, so far, spared the country. Just a few weeks ago it seemed like people did not understand what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic, they were asking questions about how family's situation, laughing a little bit at my sister, stuck in her 10 square meters apartment in the center of Paris. Invariably, the conversation would be more about what exactly 10 square meters are, than about Coronavirus and life in quarantine themselves. But this morning, as I see this mask put on our university's mascot stone truffle on my neighbours' porch, I need to remind myself of how fast we went from casual conversations about my sister's bad luck to local lock down, and more recently, national crisis. Like on this mineral companion protected against a virus he cannot get, it seems like the only light is now shed on the pandemic.
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