Four women living in Italy speak out on the 'surreal' situation, from dealing with older relatives to losing income.
On Sunday, the Milan-based filmmaker collective A THING BY released a video in which several Italians — now living under lockdown following the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 2,000 lives in the country — expressed what they wish they’d known just 10 days prior, before their lives dramatically changed. They spoke of going to the gym and restaurants, and shrugging off concerns over the coronavirus.
Katy Thomas, 40, Canadian expat, travel blogger and violin maker living in Corciano with her husband and in-laws in a two-family home“We've been taking the shutdown seriously. With older family members living next door, we stopped seeing friends three days before the shutdown. We're lucky as we work from home as violin makers and can limit clients coming as well.
“I do smart work [work remotely] five days a week, with a young child seeking our attention. So we decided on a schedule dividing the day in hours and the split house in different zones: “office,” place to play, etc. We try to have a routine like in a normal day not to go insane. Teachers share five videos a day with activities for kids to do, following the program they should have done at school.
“My friend sent me a poem, saying that now we know how sad it is to stay a meter away from another person. It’s true. I hope we will learn from this surreal situation. “The situation here is critical. People are scared, panic is setting in and I can't see my boyfriend who lives in Germany because they shut down almost all the flights to and from Italy. We don’t know when we can see each other again and I know so many couples in the same situation.
“Day-to-day life is different for all of us. Some companies use smart work, some others still force the employees to go to work with no protection. Hand sanitizers are nowhere to be found online or in the shops and gets stolen from the hospitals. I got mine before the panic was truly setting in. It’s a 1-liter bottle from Amazon UK because in Italy they were selling super-small bottles for more than €70, and incredibly people bought them as they are now out of stock.
“I hope the other nations realize how bad this can get if they don't act immediately and do what we did in the beginning: underestimate it. My message is, please do not underestimate it. It's a real mess and people are starting to get super-scared, turning against each other and it can end quite badly ... For us, it happened so quickly that we are still recovering from the shock.
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