Primes in lockdown
March 2020, the first days and weeks of COVID lockdown in France... Having been head of the Legal Department in a world-leading biotech company for 12 years before I retired, I am quite accustomed to dealing with emerging pathogens and what’s to be done in such a case.
Therefore, as soon as I heard and confirmed factual reports about what was happening in China (and that was early January 2020), I knew what would be coming and I quietly began to stock gloves and masks —not those ridiculous surgery masks that don’t help much, but the FFP3 masks that have genuine filtration and protection capabilities, such as the one in this photo. My wife mocked me at the time, as all the powers-that-be kept uttering soothing words about how the virus would never come to us (just like the cloud from Chernobyl which flew all over Western Europe but conveniently stopped at the Rhine and never went over France...).
There was, unfortunately, no more mocking in the weeks and months that followed. I wish the mocking had continued, as that would have meant I was wrong, and nobody likes to be right about more than 110,000 people (and counting!) meeting an untimely death in France only... and we ended up being much less hit than many other countries...
Anyway, in March 2020 I shot this picture with items that were going to be so symbolic of 2020 and 2021... and probably other years...
Primes in lockdown
March 2020, the first days and weeks of COVID lockdown in France... Having been head of the Legal Department in a world-leading biotech company for 12 years before I retired, I am quite accustomed to dealing with emerging pathogens and what’s to be done in such a case.
Therefore, as soon as I heard and confirmed factual reports about what was happening in China (and that was early January 2020), I knew what would be coming and I quietly began to stock gloves and masks —not those ridiculous surgery masks that don’t help much, but the FFP3 masks that have genuine filtration and protection capabilities, such as the one in this photo. My wife mocked me at the time, as all the powers-that-be kept uttering soothing words about how the virus would never come to us (just like the cloud from Chernobyl which flew all over Western Europe but conveniently stopped at the Rhine and never went over France...).
There was, unfortunately, no more mocking in the weeks and months that followed. I wish the mocking had continued, as that would have meant I was wrong, and nobody likes to be right about more than 110,000 people (and counting!) meeting an untimely death in France only... and we ended up being much less hit than many other countries...
Anyway, in March 2020 I shot this picture with items that were going to be so symbolic of 2020 and 2021... and probably other years...