In a landscape of successive "lockdowns" and the monotony of "medical authority" constantly urging us to sacrifice ourselves to "get our lives back," we conducted a multi-sited anthropological research. From the perspective of health anthropology and critical disability studies, we crossed interdisciplinary different ethnographic sites, conversed over a three-year period (2020-2023) with various subjects from the public and private health sectors, public education, disability structures, public rehabilitation structures, and refugee reception centers, and collected narratives from patients in Covid-19 hospitalization clinics. The aim was to reinvent proximity in an extreme regime of "social distancing" with a dense description and interpretation of plural testimonies and rich archival material, so as to pose questions and reflections beyond the obvious and the hegemony of the "experts." In this post-pandemic era, where the prefix "post" does not indicate the end but that we are still "under the influence" of this condition, issues arise regarding how "crises" (health, climate, and any subsequent ones) are instrumentalized and succeed one another incessantly. Especially when in their name new obligations, new prohibitions, new confinements, new tele-life and digital transformations, new discriminations, and new conditions of social suffering and collective trauma can be established. And if the so-called pandemic was a "state of exception," which perpetuated new "states of familiarity" with new regimes of discipline and social control, it remains, through this research, to leave open the question: "Did we get our lives back?"