Respect two meters distance, wash your hands, sneeze or cough into your elbow, wear a mask… These “barrier gestures” born with the health crisis remain relevant and continue to limit the spread of the epidemic of Covid-19.
They appeared with Spring 2020…and sometimes seem to be forgotten or overlooked in Spring 2021! During the sunny weekend of February 27 and 28, many media looped images of walkers apparently indifferent to respecting barrier gestures. To the point that almost everywhere in France, the police had to intervene to call onlookers to order.
Even if a year after the start of the health crisis and the succession of periods of confinement or curfew, the return of fine weather can explain a form of weariness in the face of the constraints linked to the “Covid-19 epidemic, the The time does not seem to have come to dispense with following the recommendations intended to prevent the spread of the disease, especially since they are easy to remember and, through posters or placards, reminded everywhere:
– Wash your hands frequently with soap or a hydroalcoholic solution;
– Respect two meters distance from other people in public places, especially if they are coughing or sneezing;
– Do not shake hands;
– Avoid touching your nose, mouth or eyes;
– Sneeze into the bend of the elbow or into a handkerchief;
– Wear a mask;
To give a reminder of these rules, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron himself staged on February 6 in a series of photos posted on his Instagram social network account.
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The initiative did not fail to inspire a number of Internet users who hijacked these clichés sometimes with a fairly developed sense of humor… to the point that the President of the Republic launched a challenge taken up by two influencers, McFly and Carlito whose videos on social media are followed by more than 6 million people. These youtubers in turn produced a clip on barrier gestures which exceeded 10 million views.
A great audience success which has the merit of bringing back into the news these famous barrier gestures which, in the opinion of most scientists, continue to play their role in limiting the spread of the coronavirus.
If they do not guarantee total protection against Covid-19, “they make it possible to reduce transmission even if respecting them from morning to evening is not easy”, recalls this Thursday March 4 in the newspaper 20Minutes the researcher Jean Dubuisson from the Lille Infection and Immunity Center.
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