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LONDON – An unpleasant feeling of deja vu opens from the United States to Europe the week leading up to December 25: Christmas 2021 begins to resemble that of 2020, when a large part of the world, particularly in the West, was closed due to lockdown. Closed venues, canceled events where venues are open, restrictions on the number of people you can meet, calls to exercise the utmost caution, canceled trips and holidays, merchants desperately asking for government aid to avoid bankruptcy: another de facto lockdown if not in name, creeping if not total, however depressing compared to the expectations of those who hoped, after two doses of vaccine and often after three, in the first normal Christmas or almost since …
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