Since then we're all living in the family farm, in Vendee (my sisters have horses). Things are VERY quiet here. And we have working DSL
We can't get out a lot, and with aged parents at home we don't want to take any chance. Like many, I hope the vaccine will work, but scientists here are warning that economic recovery won't be possible before second half 2021.
Off-topic, but I live in Vendee too, close to St. Gilles. How's it going with the horses? Those events down-right spook me. In September they straight out deployed the military, with 2 or 3 choppers over the Olonne forest between Brem and La Chaume. Absolutely nothing on the news. Then they have drone sightings, but as a drone pilot, I know that what they're describing is impossible for most consumer drones. But I'm not excluding some form of mass hysteria with a bunch of human authors as well. Most of the footage I've seen were misidentified planes
As for the covid, there is a strong suspicion in the medical community that the new one may be circulating since September or October, ever since we noticed aa slight change in symptoms. Good news since it hasn't been that bad even so, bad news since we've started to see people test positive for more than a month, or test negative then a few weeks later positive again, but without many symptoms. ARS says it's ok since they're no longer contagious, but I'm not entirely sure, .
I expect they'll either stop travel between most countries and go hard lockdown again, or they'll shrug it off if it's not deadlier/ vaccine resistant, then we'll lock down again in January for who knows how long
To give you an idea, there's a guy in Vendee that travelled a lot that was found to have covid-specific damage in his lungs. He was hospitalised with respiratory insufficiency in late October '19. They only realised on the compte rendu when the 'real' cases started coming Then the first confirmed cases were in late January/ early February, a group from who went to Thailand in January. ARS really dropped the ball then as they didn't even have tests, they were confirmed upon hospitalisation after being shuttled between Nantes and La Roche . So yeah, Vendee can be safe because it's rural and you can properly isolate. But don't go into crowded grandes surfaces etc because the virus is out there and has been for a long time