ITALIANS DO IT BETTER. Also known as size matters...
Numbers are big, and we are now finally coping with it a little better.

It is official: yesterday our Prime Minister, Mr. Conte, has established with a decree that Italy is CLOSED. The numbers are on the raise and awareness is settling into citizens, finally, after some hartbreaking demonstrations of incivility and panic. 

The size and the numbers of the actual situation is recalling China statistics, with a huge number of people infected and mortality rate looking bad.

The political turmoil generated by the recent decisions have split Italians into many different groups, but finally the scope of the moment is dawning on everybody and some civic sense is being showed.

It is a fact many decisions have been taken by the Government, and many restrictions were imposed about the Coronavirus spreading before today. And it is a fact (as you saw in the news) that they went largely unattended by the majority of the population.

Am I saying we Italians are undisciplined and careless?

Not really!

It is just we are more theatrical into everything, and our beliefs are in the family rather than in society. It's a mindset that is part of us since our first settlements in the south and stays deeply rooted.

Government acts and decisions are always inspected through this filter and are accepted at a very slow pace after some grade of (personal) scrutiny and (personal) evaluation.

So, yesterday evening,  our Prime Minister had a speech that seemed a reprimend of a office-boss to undisciplined employees, rather than an emergency declaration.

It sounded like: "guys, we tried, but you don't listen; so, now,  we are going to do this".
And the decree came out this morning; in few words: lockdown as much as you can bear.

And it seems, by now, to have sorted some effect. People keep their distance, streets are not busy, public transportation is empty, supermarkets are not running out of stocks and medical assistance is guaranteed to citizens and foreigners alike (and still free of charge, my God, I love this country!).

We will keep you updated, as we always did, as we care about your correct information and your feeling of security, just like when you travel with us.

We are RHI, and we care about your time in our country; let's make it worth and pleasurable.