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