Hi everyone, sorry for this post, but I would just invite people especially from Europe not to understimate the seriousness of the coronavirus.
This night I saw, for example, thousands of people gathered togheter in crowd outside the Paris Saint Germain stadium and since days I'm hearing French and German authorities taking few measures that are also actually useless, like the french ban for the meeting of more than 1000 people.
France currently is where Italy was 10 days ago, Germany 11 days ago, and I can assure you that 10 days ago, even one week ago, I could never imagine to find myself now locked into my house, forced to print and fill a special official pass just to go to buy some food under the risk of a penal charge. Schools are closed, those who can work at home must stay home, employees must enjoy their leave time if they have, those who must move to reach their job, as said, they have to carry with them the special pass, the few open activities (only the essential ones) cannot welcome more than one people at once inside their locals and everybody must maintain a distance of 1 meter from other people. But the watchword is one: STAY AT HOME. Only for emergencies or really important needs we can leave our homes. No visits to relatives, no meeting with friends, nothing of nothing.
And I know certainly that the situation about beds and intensive care units in the hospitals in France, UK and and so on it is not better then Italy, maybe in Germany, but I fear that no European country has a health system that can deal with the virus without problems.
I sincerilly hope that in the rest of the Europe the virus will not spread exponentially as in Italy, but I don't know why Macron and Merkel think they can manage the situation, I don't know how much they will be able to flatten the so-called contagion curve, also because here we have seen the virus propagates extremely quickly, it surprised our scientifical and medical authorities and I don't know how they think to cointain the spreading without further cointainment measures. Italy adopted since the first days measures which many considered drastic in February (like the 90 days ban of all flights from China) as well as we locked down the first towns interested. But it is clear that the virus came in Italy and in Europe earlier, already in January, (it seems it arrived with a German turist in Italy) and that no "drastic" measures really worked.
However, hoping that no other countries will suffer a nation-wide lockdown and thus such a exponential spreading of the virus, I just would like invite you people from Europe (but not only due to the recent statements by the WHO) who reads this forum to start adopting since now some first simple hygene measures (wash often your hands, use alcolic disinfectants for hands, ecc..) and to be careful with the physical contact with other people.
If you are in an area interested by the virus but far from your home (for work or study), please be really careful in come back at home or in your further movements.
I know probably I will be considered as paranoid and overly worried, but now 60 milions of people are living something that until 10 days ago could be considered just as the plot of a desaster sci-fi movie (until 10 days ago I could not even imagine to live what Hubei province in Chine was already leaving) and I sincerilly don't know what will be the situation the 3 Avril, when the lockdown should be lifted, sure the economy will be devastated. This night, our Prime Minister ordered further restrictive measures with the third emergency decree in 3 days and now since tomorrow all non essential economic activities must be definitively closed.
So, be careful, for you, your friends, family but first of all for possible aged parents and relatives, because personally i'm concerned more for my aged parents and relatives than for me or my friends. Don't understimate the situation. It is not my intention to spread fear, but, as said, I feel that other european authorities are like understimating the situation and that they are just waiting the wave falling on them (not to talk about those who still are considering the coronavirus like an ordinary flu!).
Sorry for the outburst in anycase, but I feel really worried and some friends I know outside italy already are asking me about the situation and what we are doing. Maybe people reading this forum could find some useful suggestion or at least could be really realize the seriousness of the situation (after a lot of people also here in Italy that understimated the situation until just few days ago).