Marco Iazzolino The word emergency is one of the most used words in recent weeks marked by the Coronavirus. The headlines in the media, the ambulance sirens, the comments of the people in line at the supermarket, the requests of

Marco Iazzolino Today I listened to the story of someone who had just come out of the terrible tunnel of Covid 19. I wasn’t breathing, I wasn’t breathing, I wasn’t breathing and then… then I breathed, breathed, breathed. I heard

Marco Iazzolino Television, the internet, newspapers, radio and even for some days now balconies and socially spaced rows have been inhabited by people who give opinions on what is happening. Opinion leaders (of every form and study) tell in a

Marco Iazzolino Who to put on the respirator? The gloves? Aren’t the masks for everyone? Do we choose to intervene in the young or the elderly affected by the virus? A thousand questions are like these, and a thousand are

Marco Iazzolino The headlines alternate in saying when the epidemic will end. Experts in television do not spare opinions that describe horizons that are always sensible, but alas, often different. One, two, three weeks, months, or maybe summer or maybe

Marco Iazzolino Not a day goes by that the TV, relatives, neighbors, police with megaphones in the street do not remind us of the rules to be observed to prevent the virus. Videos, appeals, photos, newspapers creatively tell us of

Marco Iazzolino The news is that the days that saw the numbers of the Covid 19 outbreak in China fall marked another unexpected record in the media – the divorce boom. Mr. Lu, head of the Dazhou District Marriage Bureau,

Marco Iazzolino These days the word panic bounces off the thoughts, dialogues, and especially media stories that are mostly focused on telling moods or stories steeped in fear. Panic was a word that ended a few weeks ago on the

Marco Iazzolino Every day we experience the challenge of coronavirus prevention. The indications have sometimes been confusing. To date, it is not so clear whether one meter is sufficient rather than three, whether the mask is of one type or

Marco Iazzolino In these hours of isolation, time seems to be dilating. Families, communities travel in a limbo that struggles to define itself. Everyone inside, no one outside, and the clock appear not doing its job. The endless lines at

Marco Iazzolino The virus is a strange Latin word. Its first use was in 1892 by a Russian scientist to define a disease (virus) that affected the tobacco plant. It has a special characteristic that is singular and has no

Marco Iazzolino Corona and Courage (coraggio) have in common the preposition cor. To have courage means to act with the heart in a negative situation (like the crown virus). Courage, at its root, is never static, still, depressed, sad, but