Don't drink that espresso too close to me, and stay out of St. Peter's Square. The Italians are living through the quarantine of the coronavirus.
In a cafe in the north of this city, which over the centuries has endured plagues and tyrants, a barista was performing a quite un-Italian task: keeping his espresso drinkers an arm’s length apart to prevent the spread of theThese are strange, deadly and unnerving times in this country, where the brush of a shoulder, the pat of a back or an intimate whisper define the flow of life in piazzas, vestibules and parks shaded by ruins and umbrella pines.
The same is true in Milan, the nation’s northern economic engine and the epicenter of the virus outbreak. The Lombardy region, as it is known, accounts for more than half of Italy’s 10,000 infection cases and most of its 877 intensive care cases. It was the first to close schools, gyms, churches, museums and soccer pitches. Residents can leave the house only for work, health reasons or “other necessities” such as buying groceries or getting exercise.
Italians lived under some form of occupation from the fall of the Roman Empire until the country’s unification in 1861, Kraczyna said. A trait called “furbizia,” a type of cleverness and subtle enjoyment derived from breaking the rules, developed as a survival mechanism against the country’s many occupiers.
“Young people think that being immune from the virus they don’t need to stay home, but they don’t realize they can be vectors,” said a source with the Health Ministry. “Now we’re asking artists, musicians, influencers, athletes to say, ‘You need to stay home.’”
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