I am very curious about the lockdown in North Italy.
Are you still going to work?
Are supermarkets open? Are restaurants and cafes?
Is public transport running?
Are you still going to work?
Are supermarkets open? Are restaurants and cafes?
Is public transport running?
I'd be just fine for some days. But by the end of a 2-week quarantine, I'd be eating much more poorly than I would the first week. And I'd be lucky: I have a well-stocked kitchen. I eat a lot of beans and lentils and rice and have all three around. There is pasta here. I make bread most days: I'd certainly have to ration the dried yeast, though.
I'll run out of milk and vegetables (I don't use a lot of frozen ones). If the timing was wrong, I'd run out of flour.
Other folks would fare worse, though. So much worse, just because of what they have in the house. I'd definitely run out of canned tomatoes, even if I used only half. My food wouldn't taste.. wonderful, per se, but I'd survive.
But I'd be lucky: I have this stuff around. Not everyone does and lots of folks would be learning to cook with weird stuff. Some folks simply wouldn't have food.
I'd really like to believe this - and I hope it is the case.
But geez, we let folks die of starvation on the best of days. We let folks eat literal trash. We let folks have cases of malnutrition, too, without fixing things. The only thing I think that saves folks in the states is that during a lockdown, it is the government's responsibility to do stuff - but I'm not really convinced so many governments have stuff in place.
I particularly like this family, as they show what they cook everyday.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsa3H2gvWgP5mm4OUcu7rLA
Early on, when they could still go out, the husband would visit various supermarkets that were open and before you entered, the greeter would take your temperature.
Then when the lockdown intensified and the people were restricted to their apartment complexes, designated sellers would visit the apartment complexes every day at a specific time so you could buy things.
I was surprised to see so many fresh vegetables.
"It's not quite a complete lockdown - planes and trains are still running and access will be permitted for emergency or essential work reasons."
"Restaurants and cafes in the quarantined zones can open between 06:00 and 18:00 but customers must sit at least 1m (3ft) apart"
Some of these measures are quite onerous and I can expect that many smaller establishments will prefer to close than try to enforce them: how can a bakery, for example, make sure that "not many people enter at once" ("restricted access", says the document, or at least my poor translation from "bureaucrat-speak") and that "distance is at least one meter" between people?
Personally, I can work remotely if need be (haven't done that in about ~10 years, but technically, I can). I've yet to see what my workplace will do, though.
PS: for the HN crowd, you can look up data by region in Italy here: https://opendatadpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index....
Bear in mind that the numbers on the map are incorrect (as opposed to tables): they're the cumulative sum of current cases + deaths + recoveries.
You make them queue in front of the bakery keeping a distance of a meter between each other?
The official document enforcing the "red zone " for this morning is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y3Vl8VmAww2sGfFBSH9Vfa4fwQ8...
It's in Italian, you may try a machine translation if needed
It is still far from the lockdown in Wuhan where people are not allowed to leave their appartments and get food delivered by the authorities.
I am in Copenhagen where the latest is that the government has adviced against gatherings of more than 1.000 people causing some football matches to be on TV only and some concerts to lower their number of attendees to 950.
I'm surprised people are surprised that such a thing leaked. This has been going on for years, except, no one batted an eye.
> We are Italians and we are unable to respect the rules.
As an Italian too, I don't like this generalization. You can make people more willing to follow rules if you approach them correctly. Going full-paternalistic mode (like this government has been doing) or even blaming them ("don't play dumb", is that something one would expect from a PM?) isn't going to help.
And why that happened? Because whoever is in charge of making sure that the population is reassured (and that's different from pretending that nothing is happening) did not do that.
(Personally, I believe that it's those who not do what should be done are the actual outliers, although the media does an excellent job at cherry picking bad apples).