When it really happens: SHTF...

[Ovidio]

Italy is looking pretty good compared to the US now. Looks like you guys took care of business and the worst is over. This was in the New York Times today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/o...ronavirus.html

Buon giorno!

jn

Hi Jon,
thanks.
Yes, we did quite well. I would say, in spite of the central government.
Lombardy, the region which got struck the hardest, is governed by the opposition parties, like Veneto.
They started bad, got a huge blast but then recovered. All of their own.
The government just kept criticising them, but did not help.
Once they got through, they were investigated for the massacre that occured in the retirement homes.
Now it comes to surface that the ministry of health told them to do so...to send covid cases there...
It is a weird situation.
What I could personally observe is that the Italian people behaved in an admirable way.
They observed rules and restrictions more and better than in many other countries. I was, and still am, surprised, positively so.
That is a good thing under a certain point of view, but I know my mates. My fear is that, should this situation repeat itself, few people would draw from the lessons learned and would just comply. That is the paved road to slavery...
I still hope that the deep, anarchic nature of the Italian people will save us here, but things do change, and I’m not so sure anymore.
From my privileged point of view, this situation allowed me, for the first time in exactly 25 years, to stay home for a while.
I could slow down, and after they lifted the complete lockdown, I even started enjoying being home with my wonderful family.
I hope everything will get back to normal, but I learned to live in a different way and will keep a watchful eye against the exaggerations of the past.
Concerning the NYT, I know them well enough to know that talking good about Italy is just a means to attack Trump.
Not my business, but I don’t trust them at all.
Ciao!