Restrictions and controls are now more evident. Today I met at least 3 patrols, of national and local police, stopping people even in the city center and asking a "justification" -- personally-signed official forms -- to be outside.

In the wider world, Italians are sometimes known for being melodramatic. But something uNPRecedented is that we now have all the feelings that national authority is not joking, neither is the stipulated punishments for the offense.

Some people are afraid to be confronted by police, or err in the filling of the forms. A mistake or a failure in explaining why you are outside could really end up being a crime now. The authorities will for sure verify with a phone call to your boss, to check if you are really traveling for work, so these signed auto-declarations have to be truthful.

The controls on shops, restaurants and bars are also tight, despite that some are still trying to figure if they could open and continue to earn only a poor daily revenue. Alas, they might just have to close with the anxiety of never being able to open again.

In this battle, I learned now that we need different tools: medical gears like masks, gloves and hand sanitizers but we also need "human" tools.

What is urgently needed right now is solidarity. We must not be just individuals, or atoms separated from one another in the society, trapped personally by the coronavirus; rather, we must join hands.

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