Sunday, 12 Apr 2020 08:37 AM MYT
Faced with the emptiness, they captured the mood — some emotional, worried or surprised — of the rare passers-by they encountered at 16:00 local time on Wednesday. But since the eruption of the Covid-19 pandemic and introduction of restrictions to stem its spread, tighter in some countries than others, life in these cities, as in Tokyo, Jerusalem, Panama City, New York, Johannesburg or even Niagara Falls in Canada, is very different.
Etienne Klein, a philosopher of science from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission , said the feeling of emptiness had a “metamorphosis effect”. Others worry about the future, like German osteopath Bettina Kohls, 41, who said there were “hardly any patients” now at her practice.