ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the effects of the pandemic in France. The chapter describes the phased evolution of the perception and treatment of the virus in the first half of 2020. The deconfinement phase is a relief for a majority of French people. It is also a source of concern. Health authorities are worried, however, about the slackening observed at the end of the containment period and the feeling of a few that the war is won. Unable to refer to scientifically validated figures or statistics representative of their specific environment or lifestyle, the French have constructed their own indicators based on their interpretation of the signals received, mainly relayed by the media. The analysis proposed in this paragraph, which is inevitably incomplete, focuses on a few particularities related to different dimensions, in particular those connected with the temporal, functional and sectoral views of the health crisis induced by the appearance of the virus.
