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An excellent post by Francesca Melandri and blogged by Daniel Kemp. Yes, some of this is indeed true.
Stuck at home, I do miss my adult children and grandchildren. However, on another tack I don’t feel the need to eat more than I usually do, as I only shop once a week and need to make it last so that I don’t have to go to a supermarket more often than I have to. I have a garden to get out in , and country lanes to walk in which are devoid of people, and so I guess I’m luckier than most.
Gallows humour is rife on the Internet, and some of it is very funny. You have to have a laugh!
The TV has blanket coverage of Coronavirus updates, and I watch only the 5pm daily update. There is only so much depressing news you can take, and to constantly be bombarded with increasing numbers of deaths and infections is not good for our mental health.
Sam is still working, but I cannot go to work at the moment and I cannot work from home. We are getting by. We won’t divorce, as we’re very similar in nature and he’s quite a nice guy to be stuck at home with! Friends are ringing me up more often, the family call on Skype, and there is nothing else to do but to write, ride it out, and wait for Cyrus the Virus to be done with us.
The acclaimed Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for almost three weeks due to the Covid-19 outbreak, has written a letter to fellow Europeans “from your future”, laying out the range of emotions people are likely to go through over the coming weeks.
I am writing to you from Italy, which means I am writing from your future. We are now where you will be in a few days. The epidemic’s charts show us all entwined in a parallel dance.
We are but a few steps ahead of you in the path of time, just like Wuhan was a few weeks ahead of us. We watch you as you behave just as we did. You hold the same arguments we did until a short time ago, between those who still say “it’s only the flu, why all the fuss?” and those who have already understood.
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Stevie Turner 
Stellar post. Off to read the rest xx
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Thanks Debby. x
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We are doing OK as well. We are giving each other space and our dog is getting us out for walks. We are retired so don’t have to be concerned about income. In fact, are saving a lot of money which is a silver lining.xo
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Stay safe, Darlene.
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Such a fabulous post, superb writing.
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Yes indeed.
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I think that when the dust settles we could see two groups come out of it. Those who had to keep working, perhaps had the virus and then went back to working (or those who quarantined but caught it anyway and then went to work now they could) and those who were stuck in quarantine the whole time.
Both groups are going to struggle to understand exactly what the others went through
Hopefully posts like this will help bridge the gap and see the world through the eyes of others
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Well said, Jim. I also wonder if each country’s trajectory will be exactly the same?
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That, as they say, is a ‘damned good question’ 🙂
I suspect some countries will see real tragedy. India worries me, as do the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. They could see an order of magnitude more deaths than us. They could feel abandoned
Then within Europe, I suspect there will be changes. Given other EU member states refused to send anything to help Italy or supply to each other, that will rankle
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I’m not sure where the myth about Germany refusing help to Italy originated, but did you not see the flight carrying patients from Itraly to be treated in Germany on last night’s news? As for people who are likely to fare worse than most of us, the refugee camps in Syria, Turkey, Greece, Yemen, etc., etc. are like tinder dry vegetation waiting for a match to be lit.
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The story was in the british press, and not just the gutter press
https://www.ft.com/content/d3bc25ea-652c-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5 and also in https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/eu-leaders-clash-over-economic-response-to-coronavirus-crisis
I have read stories that UK orders for masks from French manufacturers were cancelled by the French government, but I’ve not seen it in a ‘reputable’ publication
But I agree with you that the refugee camps are inevitably going to suffer
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