Italy - Coronavirus

NY Times: Italy, Europe’s Coronavirus Lab - Most Italians are unfamiliar with epidemics, so we struggle, confused, to react. Avoiding each other is hard. But we must. At least for one more week. By Beppe Severgnini -Mr. Severgnini is the author, most recently, of “Off the Rails: A Train Trip Through Life” and is a contributing opinion writer.

So Italians are muddled and scared, no wonder. The news media talk about nothing else, and add alarming images to make their point.