What was it like being in total isolation in the heart of the coronavirus? Fabien tells us about his experience in Shanghai.
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00:00Just a little message from a Frenchman in Shanghai
00:05for the people who are going to live the quarantine now in France and abroad.
00:09We had the measures of quarantine or precautionary measures from the beginning.
00:16So the first 14 days here in Shanghai were those that we can really call quarantine,
00:21where we were the only ones moving outside,
00:24it was to go get food, it was in the supermarket.
00:27All the parks were closed, the restaurants, the bars, the shops.
00:33Obligation to wear a mask,
00:36obligation to wash your hands and to get the temperature everywhere,
00:42at the entrance of the buildings, at the entrance of some open shops.
00:57The quarantine measures are the following.
01:02The first measure is to wear a mask.
01:07The second measure is to wear a mask.
01:12The third measure is to wear a mask.
01:17The fourth measure is to wear a mask.
01:22It is the first time that it is so easy to have bikes in China in free service.
01:38As you can see, life has resumed.
01:41People are starting to come out again.
01:43Two weeks ago, I think I was the only one in the street.
01:50So what you see here, all the seats,
01:53are the entrances of what we call the lanes.
01:55The lanes are the small residential areas inside the city.
01:59So here you have to take the temperature.
02:01Each entrance of the lane or district or building
02:07has guardians like that, a district committee,
02:11and they register all the people who enter,
02:13take the temperature of everyone all the time,
02:16and give entry or exit rights.
02:51So this is a supermarket next to my house.
02:55It's a bit empty.
02:57Normally, there are people who come back now.
02:59It was one of the rare places to live during the real quarantine.
03:05Now it's a bit over.
03:07Here is the entrance or exit of the malls.
03:09The guy checks the temperature.
03:12In everyday life, out of work,
03:16well, basically, we created our own routine.
03:22No worries.
03:24We took a lot of books that we hadn't read.
03:28We played a lot.
03:32The infamous Mario Kart,
03:34where I got beaten up by my girlfriend.
03:41Fortunately, I beat her in chess.
03:44The Chinese at level 1.
03:47I'm not the best.
03:49My girlfriend is at level 2.
03:51Well, the quarantine is difficult
03:55because it's the feeling of knowing
03:57that we can't go out,
03:59that we are limited in our movements
04:01and in what we can do every day.
04:03I'm lucky not to have...
04:06There are jobs that are difficult
04:09because it puts work at risk,
04:12like in the restaurant or in the hotel.
04:15It can be very difficult.
04:17Otherwise, the quarantine,
04:19for those who are worried,
04:21it's better to take it calmly,
04:23to find things to do.
04:25We are in China.
04:27There are 25 million people in Shanghai.
04:30Everything was closed.
04:32There was never a shortage.
04:34No one went shopping
04:36to buy more than they had.
04:39The delivery system,
04:41the quarantine,
04:43was put in place very quickly.
04:46We had a hard time.
04:48It was a mandatory step.