Italy is particularly affected by the coronavirus. It is also the second most affected household in the world after China. For the past week, 60 million inhabitants have been forced to stay home for the sole purpose of slow the spread of the virus. As France gradually enters total containment, a Frenchman currently living in Italy has decided to speak to tell how this confinement changed lives. "'Total containment' is the result of increasingly restrictive measures. School, museum (oh so important in Florence), airport closures, ban on meeting, therefore telecommuting, closure of non-essential stores, bars, restaurants, parks …", explained Alexis Kauffmann at first Twitter. As in France today, only stores for basic necessities such as pharmacies, supermarkets or tobacco shops are open.
As Emmanuel Macron announced, when the Italians do their shopping, they have to keep a meter apart. "And if the police arrest you, you have to prove where you come from and where you are going (there is a form to fill out online). They put fines to a funeral in Naples that was not appreciated!"he said before explaining that people couldn't buy everything and anything."By decree must buy only food, I wanted to take a tube of glue for the son. They made me big eyes telling me that I had no right because not essential. I replied that keeping my son busy was really essential, but that didn't make me smile. "
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Today, what he finds the most complicated isbusy toddler. As a teacher, he must also make himself available to his students in order to ensure "educational continuity"requested by the Italian government."A teenager will be able to be occupied, bored and be more or less autonomous to make his 'school at home'. Not the case of little ones a fortiori alone. Inevitable screen moments during the day. We watch out, we select, we split, we reduce to the max, but inevitable nonetheless"Alexis Kauffmann also took the time to encourage the French who should soon live like the Italians.
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