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Feb. 24th, 2020
Slow News Day
Feb. 24th, 2020 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dea1983As you'll probably know at this point, Coronavirus reached Italy. To be specific, it reached the north of Italy, included the district I live in, Lombardia. So far so good...I mean, I'm really scared, because some infected people have been found in the province of Cremona, which is 35 km away from where I live. That said, we are not in the 'red zone' which is the hotbed of the outbreak right about now, but we are considered a risky zone nonetheless, we're in the 'yellow zone' and we have to respect strict rules and leave the house just when needed. Schools are closed and will remain closed untile next week, Churches are closed, shops have to respect new opening hours. I hope they can contain this emergency, because we have conflicting infos, many say it is just a more severe flu/pneumonia, but we don't know exactly how the virus works, so I'm scared.
As long as the virus was spreading just in China, it still seemed so far away from us, but now that it has arrived here as well, it is hard to stay calm and be positive. I hope everything turns out well for us and for all the other countries involved, because it really seems to be spreading quickly....:/
When the news of the chinese epidemic broke, I thought it would be contained and handled in a short time, I thought maybe people were being too worried, but they were right.
As for Italy, I for one have little faith in politicians who run our government. to be honest. They should have taken extreme measures to protect us, as closing down borders, but they were worried about passing for racist towards chinese people living here, and now we're in this mess.They can't understand it is not racism. Had the virus broken out in Sweden, I'd say the same things about swedish. Better safe then sorry.
As of right now, we have more than 200 people infected with the virus, but the number is increasing daily.
Fingers crossed this can end well!
As long as the virus was spreading just in China, it still seemed so far away from us, but now that it has arrived here as well, it is hard to stay calm and be positive. I hope everything turns out well for us and for all the other countries involved, because it really seems to be spreading quickly....:/
When the news of the chinese epidemic broke, I thought it would be contained and handled in a short time, I thought maybe people were being too worried, but they were right.
As for Italy, I for one have little faith in politicians who run our government. to be honest. They should have taken extreme measures to protect us, as closing down borders, but they were worried about passing for racist towards chinese people living here, and now we're in this mess.They can't understand it is not racism. Had the virus broken out in Sweden, I'd say the same things about swedish. Better safe then sorry.
As of right now, we have more than 200 people infected with the virus, but the number is increasing daily.
Fingers crossed this can end well!