Today is the end of the first week of confinement here. Streets are deserted, and the only people you can see around are usually those waiting to enter supermarkets, pharmacies, bakeries or other kinds of commercial premise which has not been temporarily shut down by the government. Although all over the country there are hundreds of reports of violations, almost everyone is following the directives. You are allowed to exit from home only for shopping, medical exams, and working if you cannot do it from home, and must carry a paper where you state who you are and the motivation of your absence from your place.
Schools are kept running with e-learning tool, with many difficulties because the majority of them, especially here in the South, were unprepared to such a sudden and widespread necessity. There are no precise indications, every school is pretty much doing things by itself. I am using Edmodo, sending links to videos on YouTube and recording audio lessons about the topics assigned to study in the textbooks. This week I will try to organize some video chats in Skype myself to check the situation with the pupils. Janitors and administrative personnel are still there although they resorted to shifting in order to avoid excessive concentrations of people.
The mostly struck area is still the North with Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna in particular accounting for about 70% of total cases, however we in the South are concerned about thousands of people working and/or studying in the North which in the last few days have been assaulting long-distance trains in order to return to their places of origins. Yesterday at the train station here everybody was controlled with thermal scanners and five people with suspicious symptoms have been transferred to a hospital waiting to be examined for a possible infection.
Finally, nobody here is stockpiling loo rolls. [mention]Juan F. Ramirez[/mention], I can understand that you are puzzled about that... the fact, you see, is that both of our countries are provided with this fundamental tool of hygiene and civilization (in Italy, it's compulsory by law since 1975 that every household should have at least one), which prevents us from such behavior:
Ralf wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:09 pmthe Italian scenario where it went out of control.
Completely and utterly false: although the situation is still serious, the infection is still being contained with every possible means. We are not experiencing anything like that here. The country is holding on, thanks to the efforts of doctors, nurses, assistants etc. I don't know what the media are reporting in Poland, but saying our situation is "out of control" is simply not true.
so I guess it's another reason why they are so serious about it and don't want to screw it.
) but probably I'll have to stay at home working in a few days, as my boss just told me.
Standby alert 
