Mums working from home and other fun facts

During this time of restriction, (borders closed, confinement, etc) the green growers were short on help to plant, recolt and pack up vegetables and sell their products   They launched an appeal for help and got 150,000 people responding!  The governement is easing the labour laws by allowing those people who have been forced partially laid off to combine this income with that without penalty. The response was more than expected and largely enough.  There were some restrictions, like age.  So I'm not eligible.  It's wonderful that so many people volunteered.  



https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2020/03/31/derriere-l-appel-du-ministre-de-l-agriculture-des-francais-revent-d-un-retour-a-la-terre_6035040_3244.html

Some people in the south of France are starting to say they are going out of their homes without the required authorization.  They feel their lives are being too constrained.  This is a typical French reaction.  They can't stand laws, but they always want more to solve problems.  I love to obey the pedestrian lights at cross walks.  People look at me like I'm missing some neurons when I wait for the light to change.  

A lady I met in Belgium posted this to her FB.  Mum's out there can probably understand completely. 



Meanwhile in Paris in some areas, the level of noise has decreased by 90%!  Even for the people living next to airports.  

Some good news, the governement is going to issue cheques of 7 euros per day for homeless people.  These cheques will be distributed by the groups that normally work with homeless people in France like the Red Cross, etc. 

In other news, the consumation of porongraphy has jumped 50% during confinement. But the jump appears, after further analysis, to be related to a promotion by a pornsite.  Since then, consumation has gone back to normal. 

Then apparently 1/4 of French people believe that covid-19 was created in a laboratory in the US.  Facebook is a wonderful place for 'complots'  

Many of these juicy items are out of this morning's Le Monde.