Quarantine Q&A (Life under lockdown)

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 ahh just walking"

and they sent him home

so it's uh, so the policeman can stop you and ask you to

to go home.

Uhhhhh

A lot of people are asking about

uhhhhh

if there will be any food. Theres 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

uhhhh

the food and the supplies

with masks and you know, gloves.

The trashhhh uh, 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?

ummmm

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 its going to

ha- uhhh

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 uhhh

checking in because they have the symptoms

So the problem is that we don't know when its going to be over.

Its 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 tourist. 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 mooove

and go back to there own country

and started to spread

The second reason is because

this is a really old country

the average

uhhhhhh

life age

uhhhh

is eighty....eighty-five years old

so people dies in average eighty

eighty-five years old

which is really really high

and this means theres 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 its dangerous for them.

and the third one is that I think it because

uhhhh

the italians are having

a really like small distance between

each other

So, for example norther countries

like uhh

Norwegian or Swedish people

they are keeping

one..one-half meter distance

between each other

when they are talking

Italians...for Italians its like

20 centimeters

so the distance is really really small

which means

its very easier to get the virus

so i think that's the third reason.

what is the reality of life
under the lock down?

ummmmmm

I have to say it's quite

uhhh

quite the same.

I do quite the same things

as I usually do

Its 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

uhhhh

the only weird thing is that

I dont

uhhh

I dont I dont go out

and that is..like we cant

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

Im talking with a lot of people

I talk with my frieeeenddss on skyyyype

and 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 uh

you know that can that can work.

But yeah its weird to be

to be in sweatpants all the time

but a-a again I usually I do this all
the time

Sylvia gibberish is asking

Do you make stock-stockplies
of food and medicine?

Are supermarkets open?

I ready that it some towns people

are not allowed to leave their apartment.

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 Domoshete,

"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 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, 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,

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 [inaudible]

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.