Time to stay home...

Well, Spain has declared a nation-wide lock down, Switzerland has finally taken a decision to curb the virus spreading albeit with slight differences according to each canton and France's Prime Minister has decided the French were not taking the government's warning serious enough and has closed virtually all public places except for supermarkets and pharmacies as of today.

It is true, daily routine had not changed in Paris until yesterday. Schools were open, locals were running errands in the streets and the bistrots were full at lunch time and over-flowing at night. Who wants to watch a football match by themselves at home when you can pop downstairs and watch it in your local hangout with all your buddies?

After more than a year putting up with Saturdays' mayhem caused by "gilets jaunes" and nearly two months of general strike leaving the population with no public transport and reduced public services, the French have added a certain resilience to their already quite feisty outlook. So, the build up to this moment has been like training-on-the-job to face the next crisis... this time in form of a virus!

Sunday morning, the first day of self-confinement, however, it is eerily quiet on the streets, but it is still early morning hours, so let's see what the day brings.

I am wondering, how long will it take until the French start singing "La Marseillaise" from their balconies?!?

France on partial lock-down