![]() ![]() In doing so, however, they are repeating many of the errors made early on in Italy, where the pandemic has turned into a disaster. Unfortunately, throughout much of Europe and the United States, it is already too late to contain Covid-19 in its infancy, and policymakers are struggling to keep up with the spreading pandemic. Much has been written about the practices and policies used in countries such as China, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan to stifle the pandemic. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter.Īs policymakers around the world struggle to combat the rapidly escalating Covid-19 pandemic, they find themselves in uncharted territory. At first, I thought they thought we were different, but now I think, they know we are equal.In these difficult times, we’ve made a number of our coronavirus articles free for all readers. I’m treated like an Italian and the Italians are treated like me. One good thing is, everyone is the same now. And one by one we can go in to buy our things. We can only go outside to buy the things we need for our daily lives. If I go outside, to the market, if the police see me, they ask me, what are you doing here? Why are you outside? I must tell them that I’m here to buy groceries. So now I’m trying that and it’s going better. Then I thought, maybe I can try some online courses, or maybe I can try to improve my Italian. But it was worse in the first two or three weeks. If you spend more than a month at home, you are going to get bored. Photo by Carlo Bressan/AFP via Getty Images Article content A municipal worker disinfects Piazza del Duomo, in Florence, Italy, to fight the spread of COVID-19, March 21, 2020. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. I am going to make rice because it is easy to cook and you don’t need too much stuff to put into it. But we haven’t broken anything because we play very slowly. We have all our cricket stuff in the house, ball, bat, everything. We are playing cards, improving our language and trying to get Italian lessons. And our boss has not paid us yet, so money is a big problem. I wanted some information on how we could apply for it. Last week I sent a message to my boss because the Italian government announced a 600 euro ($910) bonus for workers. We are worried about our finances, our work and the things we need in our daily lives. Right now our condition is like last month. He’s been out of work and stuck at home since early March. ![]() He came to Europe more than four years ago and has lived in Florence, where he has worked in a leather factory, for the past year-and-a-half. ![]() Hezar Abbas is a 22-year-old asylum seeker originally from Pakistan. But we’ll go broke before we see our staff members suffering. We’re getting a lot of people cancelling. We’re trying to help them out as best we can, but we have negative income. A couple of our cleaning ladies are getting food stamps. It’s different for the 10 people that work with us. The good thing about our business is, we’ve been very conservative. All she’s been doing for the last 30 days is doling out food stamps. Before this she was processing birth certificates and citizenship applications and zoning applications. People here are doing what they have to do to get through. They want to do what China did - to pretty much eliminate the number of new cases before people start to resume daily life and then they’re going to do it in stages. They’re talking about possibly relaxing things, but it’s not going to be any time soon. But the government isn’t taking any chances. In the last 10 days, it sort of plateaued and now we’re getting fewer cases. Article content A deserted street in Torre de’Passeri, Abruzzo, Italy. So nobody here is really complaining about the quarantine. It’s like: ‘my great uncle, my uncle, my grandfather,’ that kind of thing. Even though our town has only one confirmed case, people know people in other villages that have passed away. And I think most people have been that way. We’re going to follow the rules and hopefully get out of this without too much carnage. I’m not going to complain about anything. We’re going to be OK, but we’re going to do our part. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. It was weird and a bit scary before, but this is very stark. And that was the tipping point where I thought, OK. ![]() They were sending them out on military trucks. They couldn’t cremate the bodies fast enough in Bergamo, which is a pretty big city with several crematoriums. Article contentĪbout a month ago, the numbers were going up so fast.
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