Everything will be all right.
Stay at home as much as possible and act with responsibility following all the instructions given by the World Health Organization and your local Health Care System, to protect yourself and the people you love, and also to safe travel soon again around the world… around our country, Italy, too! This can be a short time only if YOU start acting NOW.
In the meanwhile, we’ll keep collecting on this page of our web guidezine some positive “postcards” from Italy – the second worst affected country by Coronavirus (COVID-19) after China. All of Italy is in lockdown at the moment, we can currently only move around for reasons of primary needs like food and health, work only for some workers and only if conditions of safety are guaranteed (remote working is highly recommended if possible) or emergencies. Now the most important thing to stay safe is stay home!
#Iorestoacasa means #Istayathome and it’s the hashtag of this surreal but real time. A good thing is the country is digitalising everything! Especially cultural centres, museums, schools, libraries, creatives and artists are putting online and free lots of materials, tools and contents, to remote support Italians at home, from children to adults, during this long quarantine, sharing culture, creativity, music, arts, beauty. – We’ll make soon a list, in another post, of all the places you can visit in Italy through your digital devices… – We love this resistenza culturale (cultural resistance) and all the passionate reactions of Italians, from solidarity to creativity.
But! Before sharing the Italian message “andrà tutto bene” (everything will be all right), let us recap what’s happening worldwide and why Coronavirus is definitely not “just a flu” with this short list of useful and trustable links:
- MAP | A constantly updated Coronavirus – World Map by WHO – World Health Organization
- ARTICLE | ‘Over-reacting is better than non-reacting’ – academics around the world share thoughts on coronavirus – World Economic Forum
- ARTICLE | How does quarantine actually work? – World Economic Forum
- ARTICLE | Slowing an epidemic starts with you – World Economic Forum
- VIDEO | What can people do to protect themselves and others from getting the new coronavirus? – by WHO – World Health Organization
- VIDEO – SLIDES | Coronavirus for non virologists – A talk given at Stanford University by Michal Tal on March 9, 2020
- VIDEO – TED Talk | About global pandemics by Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready (2015 – yes, impressive).
- CROWDFUNDING | LEAST BUT NOT LAST – Italy (our country) is the second worst affected country after China. Read this article by The New York Times to understand more and then, If you can, support the Italian Health Care System: here is a list of crowdfunding campaigns divided per Region/City/Hospital (updated every 12 hours by Like Miljian): please, DONATE NOW. OR you can support the World Health Organization here: DONATE. OR you can ask Google if there are crowdfunding campaigns for the Hospitals in your local area. Our Hospitals (and people working there) need our help NOW. “Limitiamo gli incontri ma non i sentimenti!” – Let’s limit encounters but not feelings!
ITALY says to the World “everything will be all right” and on this page of our web guidezine we’ll keep collecting for you some positive postcards, moments of music and magic, life and beauty, shared from many balconies and windows of the Italian cities during the Coronavirus pandemic, while the whole country is in lockdown. #SeeCity #OneWorld #AndràTuttoBene
SEETIES, Italy
Italians sing from their windows to boost morale – A countrywide lockdown due to coronavirus has not stopped Italians from bursting into morale-boosting song in a nationwide flashmob event. | BBC News
MILANO, Italy
“O mia bela Madunina” played by trumpeter Raffaele Kohler at his home window. The song was written by milanese musician Giovanni D’Anzi in 1935. The “Madunina” is the gilted statue on top of Milan Cathedral. In 1934 Giovanni D’Anzi worked as a pianist and singer at the Pavillon Doré in Milan. At the time the city was receiving thousands of labourers from Italian rural areas, and especially from southern Italy, so he was often prompted by the audience to play songs from the Neapolitan tradition. Therefore he composed this slightly ironical song, which over time became the symbol of the city of Milan. | Video by La Repubblica
BOLOGNA, Italy
Another flashmob, this one to applaude and thank all the Italian Hospitals, all the people working there. One collective applause to say: GRAZIE dottori e dottoresse, infermieri ed infermiere, e tutto il personale di tutti gli ospedali d’Italia per il lavoro straordinario che state facendo. (GRAZIE. ❤︎CCTeam) – @WhatItalyIs
FIRENZE, Italy
Coronavirus: empty Florence in photos – a gallery by Francesco Spighi on The Florentine
FIRENZE, Italy
One of the beautiful projection by visual artist David Hartono, from his window onto the facade of a house in Piazza Beccaria. A short video mapping he creates and shows by night, not every day but very often, and every time changing designa and animation, to enternain his neighbours with colourful moments of creativity. – Thank you Laura Conti for having sent us this!
CASTAGNO di PITECCIO – The BORGO MUSEO of PISTOIA, Italy
“Limitiamo gli incontri ma non i sentimenti!” – Let’s limit encounters but not feelings! – by painter Fabio De Poli
ROMA, Italy
“In the neighborhood called San Lorenzo in Rome there is a touch of poetry, where fiction and reality dance together.” – Another adorable video shared by @WhatItalyIs and posted by Aureliano Verità.
TRAPANI, Italy
Another moment of music and magic. This one by trumpeter Alberto Anguzza. Shared by @WhatItalyIs
BARLETTA, Italy
Play music, sing and dance. Always! A short video by Guido Tabacco
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Quando il Coronavirus cercò di farci fuori tutti, noi c’eravamo. Barletta, 13 marzo 2020
Same balconies. Different music: the national anthem of the Italian Republic – “Il Canto degli Italiani” or “Inno di Mameli“. Another short video by Guido Tabacco.
Same balconies, by night. Same filmmaker: Guido Tabacco.
From NORTH to SOUTH, Italy
Italians, in their balconies and windows, playing the national anthem of the Italian Republic – “Il Canto degli Italiani” or “Inno di Mameli“. Here a series of videos from the cities of Milano, Matera, Roma, Lecce, Milano collected by @IG_Italia.
Love, Italy
An illustration by Alessandra Bruni, shared by @itsarttime.
