Soon the end of the mask inside? I have a blockage at the idea of ​​removing it!

The Minister of Health announced it yesterday: if the decline in the epidemic follows its course, this would signify the end of the mask indoors from the spring. A controversial announcement. Soon a life without a mask inside? “If the epidemic follows its course with a drop in Omicron, it will be in the spring”, declared Olivier Véran on Wednesday February 2 on BFM TV, outlining the timetable for the lifting of certain restrictions such as the reduction or the abolition of the pass. vaccinated by this summer. "The worst is behind us and we have done the hardest," added the minister, who recalled that since February 1, wearing a mask outside is no longer compulsory.  

But the news that caused a lot of reaction concerns the possibility of removing the mask indoors within a few weeks. While we have been living with it for almost two years now, how do the French envisage the end of this habit well anchored in our daily lives? Lin, 26, is "really looking forward" to being able to remove the mask for dermatological reasons. The young woman confides "being fed up with pimples" caused by the regular wearing of the maskat work and in transport. In addition, wearing glasses, she finds it difficult to have her glasses fog up constantly during the day at the office or worse at the cinema, "I still haven't found an adequate technique to correctly place my mask and pass a good moment ". When she heard the news, Cao-Minh, a sociology professor, told her boyfriend that she would “finally be able to see her students without a mask”. The young 26-year-old teacher regrets never having seen their faces since her first return to school in January, "I'm starting to prefer video because with this medium at least we can see them".