And then we noticed

While Spring Fashion week was throbbing in Milan—the city sparkling with models and fashionably dressed folks, and metros jam packed—we read that a young man was diagnosed with Coronavirus in Codogno, a small town in the SE corner of the province of Milan. Doctors and scientists were doing their best to understand how he could have got the virus, and whom he might have infected.

I have no idea if it was the original patient or someone else, but rumors went around that an infected young man was tired of quarantine and ran off to see his friends in a neighboring town, causing a breakout of infections in that town. Cases started showing up in Lodi and Bergamo, among other towns. Community spread. Alarms go off. Codogno and a few towns are completely cordoned off and these become the first areas to go under severe public quarantine. Already people started to erupt with anger on social media for his selfish act and so began the intense Italian social pressure on social media to do the right thing.


Photo credit: https://www.wheremilan.com/events/fashion-week-milano-moda-donna-febaruary-2020/ and https://starecat.com/norton-antivirus-cd-compact-disc-face-mask-corona-virus-protection/