Hi everyone, I'm Barbara.
I'm here in Veneto, in North Italy,
and it's been exactly one week that I'm in a quarantine
at my own home.
I've been posting and making videos about
coronavirus and how it spread and I was there
three weeks ago when it all started in Vo.
Since then I've got a lot of questions,
so I thought I'm going to answer them,
and I also asked you on Instagram.
The first question is: "Can you go outside?"
The answer is yes and no.
We can go outside.
The rules are not really strict, but also not really obvious,
so we can go out for example,
the pharmacy or to make groceries.
We can do everything which are...
we can say emergency actions.
Like, for example, doing sports,
so like jogging,
or having a walk--like older people are usually having walks in Italy--
You can do it but it happened for example
one of my friend told me like Innapoli, there was an older man,
and the policeman asked him, "What are you doing?"
And he said, "well you know, just walking,"
And they sent him home.
So it's uh, so the policeman can stop you and ask you to-
to go home.
A lot of people are asking about
if there will be any food. There's enough food.
The basic things are still working,
so there are groceries, and there are like vans who are coming and going,
and they are bringing
the food and the supplies
with masks and you know, gloves.
The trash, the trashmen are coming
so the basic needs are are happening
so yes, there will be enough food.
you don't have to worry about that one.
A lot of times I saw this question:
when will it be over?
We don't know that yet.
And that's the whole problem.
You know, in all of Italy
In all of Europe, and all around the world
we dont know when it's going to
to be over.
The numbers are still going up
like really
the numbers are really high. Every day,
there's like hundreds of new people who are
checking in because they have the symptoms
So the problem is that we don't know when its going to be over.
It's difficult to say at this point.
Another question is connecting to this one.
Why the numbers are high in Italy?
The whole thing started in Italy because of three things.
One of them is the tourists.
In Italy, the tourism is really really strong and big
Everyone loves to go here
obviously because it's one of the most beautiful places
and fantastic places on earth.
But everyone likes to come here,
so a lot of people come here.
So that's why it started here.
And then people started
to spr- to move
and go back to their own country
and started to spread.
The second reason is because
this is a really old country.
The average life age
is eighty....eighty-five years old.
So people dies in average eighty
eighty-five years old
which is really really high.
And this means there's a lot of
really old people here
and they are the ones who-
who we need to be care.. cared about,
because they got the virus really easily
and it's dangerous for them.
And the third one is that, I think is because
the Italians are having
a really, like, small distance between
each other.
So, for example norther countries,
like Norwegian or Swedish people,
they are keeping
one...one-half meter distance
between each other
when they are talking.
Italians...for Italians it's like
20 centimeters.
So the distance is really really small,
which means
it's very easier to get the virus
so i think that's the third reason.
What is the reality of life under the lock down?
I have to say it's quite,
quite the same.
I do quite the same things
as I usually do.
It's because I'm an artist
So I'm reading a lot,
and I'm painting, I'm working
I'm editing videos.
So I'm doing kinda the same.
The only weird thing is that
I don't- I don't go out
and that is... like we can't
got out, and for now it's fine
but it will be at one point,
it will be difficult.
I'm lucky because I have my
boyfriend and his father here,
so I'm not really alone. But
meeting with other people is going to-
I'm going to miss it at one point.
Now I'm really fine with it.
I talk with a lot of people
I talk with my friends on Skype
and you know, video chats.
So that is really cool. You can keep communicating
and you know, I was thinking about
make some wine talk with my friends
through Skype, so I think
you know that can- that can work.
But yeah it's weird to be-
to be in sweatpants all the time.
But again I usually- I do this all the time.
Sylvia last name is asking:
Do you make stock-stockpiles of food and medicine?
Are supermarkets open?
I ready that in some towns, people
are not allowed to leave their apartments.
True. We have a lot of food now.
Just yesterday we had groceries
and we are making, we try to make it
every second week to go to groceries,
so we are not going there every day.
Medicines. We have some kind of medicines,
like for headache, for stomach-ache, for fever,
so the basic ones, we have them, yes.
Supermarkets are open, as I said.
Another question from Yamato Damashii,
"Why don't you immigrate to Hungary?" Oh, ok.
"Italy has once again entered a difficult
time, and it will take a long time to recover."
I answered him wrong when I wrote back to him,
but ok now I understand the question.
I don't want to go back to Hungary
because at the first part when there
was no one who was infected in Hungary,
no one had the virus in Hungary,
I decided not to go because I
didn't want me to be the one
who brings the virus there.
I had this warm nationalism feeling
inside of me that I have to
protect my nation, and I was like,
ok, I'm not going to Hungary, because
what if I have the virus,
and I don't want to bring it to them,
and I didn't want to be that person.
So that was my first thought,
and then I didn't want to go there
because I thought the healthcare in Hungary
is way worse than the Italian one,
so it's one person minus,
so if I get sick, I don't, you know,
occupying a bed there from someone else,
and also I didn't want to leave
my boyfriend here alone,
because he's writing his thesis now,
and he's also working at the same time,
so he's really overwhelmed,
and I just want to be next to him
to help him.
You Everything asks, "Are you prepared?"
"Will you get food shipped in?"
"I am praying for you here in Ohio."
Well, thank you!
I've got a lot, a lot, a lot of different messages
and comments from you guys
from all around the world,
and I have to tell you that
it warms my heart so much,
because it, it's coming from really everywhere,
I got messages from different parts
from America, from Australia,
from China, someone wrote from
Scotland, from the Netherlands,
someone even wrote me from
Nigeria, so, I'm really getting a lot
of messages from you, and you know,
asking how we are, and I really,
really hope that you don't have to go
through all of this, even though
I don't feel that it's so bad,
if I can say that, in my life,
and I didn't have to experience wartime,
or any kind of horrible diseases
that, you know, kills, which kills
my family, and [inaudible]
a lot of people in the past
experienced this, so I think staying
at home for a couple of weeks
is not a big sacrifice.
Epstein didn't kill Himself (laugh) asks,
"How old are the people who have died?"
I have to check exactly the
thing, because I am not sure
about the exact numbers,
but I know that most of them
are over 60 years old.
Ok, so let me see the Instagram questions.
Kikikiksky, Kikikiksky? Kikikiksky is asking,
"How is the current situation?"
"Hope any better news."
Well, thanks, and unfortunately not,
and the numbers are still going
high, so, higher and higher, so
eventually there is no good
news now, and I think that we
will be on the top, I think, one week
from now, and then it will go down.
If someone has the virus
and doesn't show any symptoms
from 5 days to 11, which means
that before the quarantine,
a lot of people met, so those people
were still spreading the virus.
So I think when the Prime Minister
asked for the quarantine plus 11 days,
that will be the highest point of the virus,
and then hopefully it will go down.
Bachviki is asking in Hungarian,
reading question in Hungarian
Basically, her question is about if
the racism is stronger than ever, or
if it is lighter than before?
It is difficult for me to answer to this,
I don't really see any articles or
people talking about on Facebook,
about that it's anyone else's fault,
or, so I don't really see that,
I mean, for sure, there are a lot
of people who thinks that, but
I don't really see that.
"More babies or divorces?"
I like this question, very difficult
to answer. I think both of them.
I mean, they are saying, in apocalyptic
articles people are writing
what you should put in your stock,
and next to rice and pasta,
and they are saying also condoms.
Some of you wrote me from China,
that yes, we should be prepared that
in nine months from now, we are
going to have a lot of new babies,
which is awesome, I think. (laughs)
I think it's nice. I hope it will happen
when the virus is not here anymore.
And divorces, I hope not, I mean,
I hope not there won't be any divorces,
so I am hoping for more babies
than divorces. (laughs)
That's the questions I get from you guys,
so hopefully I answered all of them,
and if you have any others,
and I am sure you have, then ask
me in the comment section.
You can follow me in Instagram,
because there I am also putting
information and my artworks
about the Coronovirus because
obviously I am creating while I am inside
because I will never stop creating (laughs)
and that is a good closing sentence,
so thank you for watching this video,
and don't forget to subscribe please,
because I am really close to 1000, and
after that I can earn some money which
would be awesome, because I don't have
any jobs right now. (laughs) So thank you,
and take care, and see you next time. Bye!