A few words about the coronavirus for my dear followers. I'm in Italy right now and we are closed in our homes. We reached a very critical situation because, when it was time to act, the measures required looked too restrictive from the POV of western countries culture.
Unfortunately viruses spread regardless of what we think. The only way to stop the infection is to stay at home and to limit the contacts at every cost. The North of Italy has one of the most advanced health care of the world, yet at this point hospitals reached an hard limit.
Don't believe that this is just a flu that is a bit more severe. In Italy 8% of people in intense care units are between 20 and 49 years old. In certain hospitals the ICUs are already too busy and doctors are left having to choose who will survive based on the chances they have.
This is the moment to act in a civil way, and stay at home at all the cost, at the same time try to press as much as possible company managers to let people work from home. This is a battle we can win only if most of the individuals will do the right thing.
After all this will be over, we'll have to reconsider the way we are living, and if it is really the case to continuously move from one continent to the other to have meetings. For now what to do is simpler: isolate yourself as much as possible from other people.
Thanks to the monument to human intelligence that the Internet is, we fortunately have a chance to stay at home while not being alone. Have fun in your collective chats, create new things, write programs, read about stuff you don't know, chat with your family. We can do it ;-)
