I’m writing from Italy, so I’m writing from your future. We are now where you will be in a few days. The curves of the epidemic show us embraced in a parallel dance in which we find ourselves a few steps ahead of you on the timeline, just as Wuhan was compared to us a few weeks ago. We see that you behave as we have behaved. You have the same discussions as those we had a short time ago, between those who still say “all these stories for what is just a little more than a flu”, and those who have already understood. From here, from your future, we know for example that when they tell you to stay confined to your home, some will quote Foucault, then Hobbes. But very early on you will have much more to do. Above all, you will eat. And not just because cooking is one of the few things you can do. On social networks, groups will arise that
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Francesca Melandri translated from Italian by Robert Maggiori
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