I wanted to give a brief account of the situation on the Italian western front of the war on covid-19.
Today I am in my third week of "agile work" also called "smart working", working from home.
In particular, I work from my in-laws' house, because also schools, kindergartens, etc. they are closed, therefore, in order to work, we had to come here in order to entrust our 3 year old son to the grandparents during the working hours.

The situation on the front of the number of tampons, asymptomatic, symptomatic, healthy, sick, serious, in intensive care and deaths you can read in the newspapers, online, etc., I certainly don't need to summarize it.

I would like to make some notes on how the world is changing before our incredulous eyes.

Living in the north and working near Milan these changes are, in my opinion, noteworthy.

From the beginning of this story, shopping at the supermarket, before the various restrictive measures, I had noticed how people were less sociable and, above all, how nobody coughed or sneezed, evidently holding the impulse, for fear of being held up as infector.

The change for me was significant because I always shop with my son and, as a rule, several eprsone, especially the elderly, stop to say hello to tell him how cute he is and things like that.

For more than a month this hasn't happened anymore, people look at you, from a distance, but they don't say goodbye, they don't come close and they keep sneezing and sometimes coughing unnaturally.

At the beginning in Italy the fear was of the "Chinese" considered infected by definition, then I happened not to queue at the cash desk simply by following a couple of Asians, probably Filipino features, but the almond-shaped eyes were enough to creating the void behind them, despite all the other chests having queues of 4-5 people.

Afterwards the first Italian cases arrived and then first the Lodi outbreak and then the blockade of a nice slice of northern Italy.

Now it is enough to meet another child and two other parents at the park behind the house to be looked at and look at the neighbor with suspicion.

Our habits have changed drastically and suddenly.
No more breakfast at the bar or coffee after lunch, deserted or closed bars.
Very few people around, I don't want to deny that there are unruly people who do not respect the prohibitions, but the vast majority of the population has literally shut themselves in the house.

What surrounds me is a post-apocalyptic scenario, deserted streets, the few people you meet who look at each other with suspicion, practically all closed or contingent: bars, shops, doctors' surgeries, churches, schools, theaters ... all closed or desert.

What I see collapsing before my eyes is a model, a lifestyle, let's face it, absolutely over the top, over our possibilities and over the planet's resources.

Suddenly everything that seemed indispensable to us has become forbidden and also scares us, and it appears to us, all things considered, in all its uselessness, superficiality and fatuity.

We have spent almost a century praising the free market, competition, the supremacy of the private sector over the public.
Now, suddenly, from one day to the next, we are all clinging hands and teeth to public health, it is no longer taboo to make a state contract overnight for the supply of medical devices, the hiring of thousands of doctors and nurses, creating new beds after 30 years of cuts and scissors.

Nobody knows even more about the existence of private health.
In France they blocked the cost of amuchina by law.
The supremacy of the public, of the state, of the risk socialization system is taken for granted by everyone, when only two months ago it was a blasphemy.

Companies discovered overnight that almost all employees can safely work from home.

We all discovered that we spent 90% of our precious time, yes because when we are afraid that it is about to end we realize how precious it is, to do totally useless things, perhaps even harmful to us and the planet.

When all this is over, because sooner or later it will end, maybe with a billion deaths, maybe with a few thousand, but there will be an end anyway, will we remember it?

Will we go back to being liberalists or will we have learned our lesson?