People cannot meet, cannot visit their elderly parents.
When going out to buy necessities, we walk on opposite sides of the road, lowering our eyes and feeling guilty.
If physical segregation lasts a long time, this will inevitably transform the organization of work and society itself.
We read from many sides that living together in often-small spaces can generate or amplify tensions between spouses, between parents and their children, and between brothers or sisters.
From a political point of view, the most troubling dimension of the current crisis could be the weakening of democratic culture.
Italy has not always had a good history when it comes to irrational accusations, as in seventeenth-century Milan, when many were falsely charged with carrying the plague and were summarily executed-a tragedy captured by the nineteenth-century writer Alessandro Manzoni in his The Betrothed and History of the Column of Infamy.
When Italy comes out the other side of this crisis, the nation will never be the same.
https://www.city-journal.org/covid-19-italy
When going out to buy necessities, we walk on opposite sides of the road, lowering our eyes and feeling guilty.
If physical segregation lasts a long time, this will inevitably transform the organization of work and society itself.
We read from many sides that living together in often-small spaces can generate or amplify tensions between spouses, between parents and their children, and between brothers or sisters.
From a political point of view, the most troubling dimension of the current crisis could be the weakening of democratic culture.
Italy has not always had a good history when it comes to irrational accusations, as in seventeenth-century Milan, when many were falsely charged with carrying the plague and were summarily executed-a tragedy captured by the nineteenth-century writer Alessandro Manzoni in his The Betrothed and History of the Column of Infamy.
When Italy comes out the other side of this crisis, the nation will never be the same.
https://www.city-journal.org/covid-19-italy
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