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An article in La Stampa, the newspaper of Torino and one of the major newspapers in Italy included a video of several other mayors in cities across the country with a message to their citizens.. Since this apparently appeared somewhere in the New York Times ( couldn’t find it) there are subtitles. Just click on […]

There is a video that has gone viral (appropriate term) here. It is a young mayor of a smallish town in Sicily. He blows off steam about the casual manner the citizens of his town are making light of the mandate to stay at home. Unless you understand Italian you really can’t follow what he’s […]

Now it’s Sunday, March 22. In the last blog post 4 days ago I said that I’d do another post on the next day. Well, I got lazy. It’s really a strange phenomenon being cooped up in the apartment for days. Now it is the 6th day that I have not left the house except […]

As probably everyone knows Italy is on a countrywide lockdown. Supermarkets, pharmacies are open as are tobacco shops (we don’t want rioting in the streets). The last time that I went out for a walk was last Friday, 5 days ago. I didn’t realize it at the time but that walk was actually illegal. Now […]