(by Francesca Proietti Cosimi - Press Officer) I wrote it two days ago that the Italians are orphans and what happened last night unfortunately confirms our condition.
I had already written about a single man in charge who can stop a country, and tonight, that man always continued undisturbed in his "mission". Until yesterday, the videos of our institutions were circulating: the hashtag #Milano does not stop, #Come to Italy, we are all fine, and the recommendations continue to live normally with prudence and "stay good if you can" (like the film).
So much so that it was not yet clear whether it was serious, semi-serious or very serious, and in the meantime let's wash our hands, or rather wash our hands. As a result, the infected have increased exponentially and hospitals in the north are collapsing.
Those who, like me, work moving from one place to another or live in multiple regions, will have realized, however, a somewhat schizophrenic reality because according to the region a different film was shown.
In Emilia it was only apparently normal on Friday night. Of course, fewer people around, but no meters away in bars or restaurants.
In Lombardy another scenario. But still last night the ships were full of people and nobody was one meter away from each other.
On the highway, however, many motorway service stations were already closed.
In Piedmont, cinemas have been reopened since March 2, so we Italian orphans have meanwhile behaved as creatives as we are. Yesterday evening at 20 pm, many Milanese went to dinner and to the cinema in Piedmont and in the surrounding areas, some of them who have second homes outside Milan have already moved for 30 days with the children and have continued to go out and circulate freely even some of the red zone went skiing!
Then in the early evening of yesterday the rumor began to circulate that Lombardy was about to be declared a Red Zone…. to no official, then here is the draft written with the left foot in which you can read contradictions and confused concepts.
The social networks go haywire, the panic spreads: the parents go to the car to recover their children scattered throughout the territory to bring them home, up to the assault on the trains in Milan Central Station to leave the region, as if we were in war.
The governors of Piedmont and Lombardy meanwhile tested positive for the Corona Virus while the mayors of the cities and provinces declared red zone had not been informed of the content of the new decree and learned the news like all the others
Already a few days ago the mayors of the red zones (which are now the red zone in the red zone) denounced the insufficiency of clear information and indications.
Oh yes, because the man only in command evidently took a taste in this pantomime and not even Coronavirus stops him, but continues to wash his hands…. before and after.
International newspapers analyze the decree and write Italy Locked down, but it is not really true, we are not armored even if we should be, but who takes responsibility for writing ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION TO LEAVE HOME? ... some journalists last night even brought up democracy and I interpreted it as we are in a free country, free to get sick because everyone washes their hands as best they can
At this point, all that remains is to apply the only serious rules dictated by the sense of responsibility that our grandparents would have applied weeks ago even without scientific committees. In the event of illness, the animals isolate themselves and we should do the same and this also applies to the other regions of Italy that are not declared a red zone: because tomorrow it could be up to you, to everyone else, since in the last week the trains have continued to circulate and we went everywhere-.
We stay at home, read a book, abandon our unthinkable rhythms so much heralded in the video, which made us all sick of a much more serious pathology of the Coronavirus and we take the opportunity to reorder the ideas, so maybe we will get out of this nightmare earlier than expected for face an unprecedented recession.
Personally, I would have preferred that a month ago we were clearly told "don't move", instead of still reading a decree that does not prohibit anything, but that if you interpret better, maybe you mean something else.
Meanwhile, let's wash our hands…. and let's wash our hands, keeping firmly in mind that when the hands are in the middle ... the situation is very serious considering how it went for clean hands.
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