But! I remember a friend on the Hill saying in despair 'Nobody cares about this, and they won't care until it hits a European country' - and there was a distinct difference in tone, he reported, after it did.
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Yup; Italy had *impact* but it was still weirdly possible to dismiss the possibility, especially when the authorities were so blase. I was *screaming* down the phone to relatives in the UK about quarantining even as the government and their workplaces were telling them not to.https://twitter.com/GabrielCorsetti/status/1319834673820823552 …
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Also there was some extremely English racism involved in the treatment of Italy, like the TV doctor who suggested - as Italians were dying by the hundreds a day - that the lockdown was because they liked to siesta.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-dr-christian-jessen-italy-outbreak-embarrassing-bodies-siesta-a9399071.html …
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And the public officials telling people not to worry should all be ashamed of themselves. Dealing with nonsense like this is why we give them all those special powers and privileges. If they're just going to blow it, why bother with them?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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An Italian friend whose husband was in Milan talked to me about it here in
early on. « It’s really bad » she kept saying. «Mm-hmm... » said I, thinking about what to make for dinner. Haven’t forgotten where we stood. The trees, our kids playing, the expression on her face.Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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