国际英语资讯:Diary in Rome: Lockdown restrictions are real, not a joke_时事

国际英语资讯:Diary in Rome: Lockdown restrictions are real, not a joke

I don't like to hear, as I did, "why is that lady (owner's shop) still open? " or " teachers and professors, they can enjoy straying home because they still get their salaries". Egoism could also be a despicable virus. If we want to start again after this dark period like after a long war finished, we should keep the same positive spirit. We have to reconstruct the country and ourselves, therefore we need more kindness and empathy.

Going around the empty city is not giving me, for the moment, negative side effects. What worries me, however, is people perhaps are now overly "immersed" in the endless supply of crisis information. Not only is the news now dominated by the coronavirus, but also our conversations were also full of it, resulting in panic and uneasiness.

Perhaps, just perhaps, we should keep a "safe distance" between all this information, just as we are required to do in queues in real life.

Speaking to different people today, I see that an entirely new trend in Italy could usher in a more positive and smart philosophy of working: home-working, a real revolution in my country for both public and private sector jobs.

Staying home without the trouble of terrible traffic jams turns out to be easier. "it is very nice to work from home in cities like Milan and Rome, where you normally live far from the office and you lose more than an hour a day on crowded public transport," my friend Laura said.

The total number of cases in my Veneto region grew to 1,384 today. But at the same time, the good news is coming from Rome's Fiumicino airport, where, at late night, genuine and concrete solidarity comes from afar. Let's talk about this tomorrow....