Remember, don’t panic, wash your hands, stay safe and Happy Paddy’s Day! Ní neart go cur le chéile.Air pollution over northern Italy fell after the government introduced a nationwide lockdown to combat coronavirus, satellite imagery showed on Friday, in a new example of the pandemic’s potential impact on emissions.Ĭhina, where the outbreak started, showed a marked reduction in pollution after the government imposed travel bans and quarantines, and the data from Italy, which was hit hard several weeks later, suggested a similar pattern. I hope this story will teach us to slow down – we need a rest. It is still sad because people are scared and are dying and the economy will probably collapse, but this lockdown is what we have to go through to stop this virus from spreading. Anyway it is good sometimes to stop and think about ourselves and the world around us. We have to stay in our houses until the 3rd of April, but we don’t know if the lockdown will be extended. I still haven’t discovered if it’s better to buy a lot of stuff (running the risk of looking selfish) or not to buy very much (and starve at home).
There is a surreal atmosphere, everybody is keeping away from each other, there is no music and you feel as if others are judging you. The weirdest thing is going to the supermarket though. Some of them are still not following the rules, but survival of the fittest, I guess. The general provisions of the decree are that we must stay at home and we can only leave the house to go shopping or to work – well, those who still can – because most people are now working from home or not working at all, like people who work in bars, restaurants, and in other jobs that aren’t necessary for our survival (my hairdresser couldn’t disagree more).ĭuring the first few days of the lockdown some people didn’t really get it and they were trying to go wherever they wanted but some of them received a fine, because there is a fine if you leave your house without any real need to. Speaking about the world outside of my house I can say that luckily it’s sunny, otherwise it would be even more oppressive.
#Northern italy lockdown free
It works!Īmong the different methods we are exploring to kill time here is also giving free rein to our creativity, as you can see from the picture here above, or from reading this article. So if we start feeling nervous or overwhelmed by the situation, we just say the word “Flussigseife” which is the German word for liquid soap (don’t ask, such a long story) and then we know that the other one needs space, or just a hug (even if nowadays it is literally illegal). Because staying in the same house with the same person for a long period of time is not healthy. We also decided to have a code-word for when we don’t really feel okay.
It’s amazing to discover how much housework there is, which can(‘t) be done in a week! Now the sitting room is beautiful and positive, but we still haven’t finished all the things we wanted to do. We started disassembling the large dresser in the living room because according to my sister it was so ugly and had negative energy and we couldn’t do anything else before getting rid of it. I started thinking about what I should do, and the answer was simply: do nothing and wait for the bubble to burst.Īfter a week I can happily say I haven’t gone mad, yet, or maybe I just don’t think so.Īnyway I haven’t had time, because my sister and I came up with this thrilling idea to clean and organise the whole house. I didn’t know if I could see my friends or go for a walk or look for a job. The colours became more vivid and the sounds muffled. On Monday evening the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte declared that all of Italy was a red zone, or under lockdown – putting Amazon in a tricky situation.Īt the beginning, the Amazon fiasco made me laugh, but then I started to realise what was happening, and it felt like I was in a bubble where everything stopped for a moment. Last Monday, the 10th of March, some of the regions in northern Italy were already ‘red zones’ – such as Lombardia, Veneto and Emilia Romagna – meaning that they were on lockdown.Įarlier on Monday, to the delight of many, Amazon decided to make Prime Video free for the people who lived in the red zones. By Jana Kolnrekaj in Tolmezzo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italyīeing on lockdown was not one of our New Year’s resolutions but that’s what has happened, and the only thing we can do is to accept it.
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