Italy is the soldier returning from war, not running from the train as fast as possible, but walking slowly and slightly unsteadily -- as though shell-shocked -- back into the light. When China’s outbreak was kept a mystery, and Iran was slow to reveal the truth, it was Italy that lived its nightmare
There’s a girl taking a selfie a few seats over from me. In the row of chairs opposite, a man is having a very loud conversation on his phone. Over by a window, a father is struggling to get his kids to sit still; an iPad finally given up as a bribe for their good behavior. These are the kinds of scenes you witness all the time in airports.
COVID-19 struck at Italy’s soul because it took aim at the family and specifically at the elderly; at the parents and grandparents around whom family life revolves, and define in many ways what it means to be Italian. Not only did it take so many lives but in a country where every aspect of life is shared, isolation has been a cruel tonic.This week’s family reunions meant Italy came a step closer to being itself once more.
But as Claudia told me from the gate to her house which she literally hasn’t left since March 3, “the virus is not finished.” The possibility of a second wave means her family has no plans to go out soon. Everyone here is aware of that danger..@ABC News' @JamesAALongman interviewed an Italian couple who has not left home since the lockdown in Milan began at the beginning of March, saying they see it as a"civic duty" to stay inside even with loosened restrictions. https://t.
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