In the age of coronavirus, the only way you can see Milan is to fly through it.
In the age of coronavirus, the only way you can see Milan is to fly through it.
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Messages From Quarantine
In the age of coronavirus, the only way you can see Milan is to fly through it.
00:10 - 00:23 A message for Niccolò and Nikola. Question: how are you? Physically I’m well, a bit worried, but all things considered I think it makes sense. 00:26 - 00:38 God willing, the coronavirus still hasn’t touched us. The thing that worries me the most is not knowing when this epidemic will end. 00:39 - 00:57 Contact with reality has been partly lost, with what happens outside our houses, so I’ve stopped being afraid, because I feel safe between the walls of my home. 00:58 - 01:12 Just being able to look out the window, and see a smile, a waving hand, fills your heart up, which knows that there is alway somebody close, even if at a distance of four meters. Gratosoglio 01:22 - 01:37 This is my neighbourhood, it’s my favorite, I was born here and have been living here for fifty years. The coronavirus hasn’t changed me, I don’t fear it. All it has done is annoy me. 01:39 - 01:45 I’m with my large family. It’s a bit of a nightmare. 01:48 - 01:57 I’ve recently stopped working because we were fired after the new law didn’t include our job in basic necessities. 01:58 - 02:25 Because of this situation I haven’t seen my two-year-old daughter in two weeks. And I’m broken inside. I’m broken. But I chose not to see her because I’m working in a hospital, at Milan’s San Raffaele, as a maintenance technician, and I don’t want to give up. They’re building two tents for intensive care units. Canonica 02:35 - 02:40 I feel dazed, this the word I’d use. 02:42 - 02:55 I read and inform myself a lot on this whole new thing that pervades us, it above us, under us, next to us. 02:55 - 02:59 What happens if I get sick? What happens to my daughter, my dog? Monte Amiata 03:08 - 03:34 You know what the funny thing is? I’ve already lived through a war, in a regime. I tried, in every way possible, to build a life where I’m not a victim to situations. And yet, here I am, locked between four walls, without my liberty. I find myself thinking, that in some ways it was better during the bombings, at least in the bunker I socialized with the people I shared the same fate with. 03:43 - 04:03 I also miss having my son close by. He lives somewhere else, far away. We only talk on the phone. But this is a great loss. We used to meet about once a week. Not seeing each other for over a month is becoming very heavy. Gratosoglio 04:11 - 04:36 Courage is a big word. Nothing gives me courage in this situation. It’s not nice to say, but we can’t trust anybody. Not even ourselves. Now the situation is very, very ugly. 04:37 - 04:56 My partner gives me courage. I haven’t seen her in two weeks, like my daughter. Even if every morning she asks me to stay home, to stop going to work, every evening she tells me how proud of me she is. Canonica 05:01 - 05:14 I’m afraid I’ll lose a loved one and not be able to see them. I think this is the most inhuman aspect of this event. Monte Amiata 05:23 - 05:39 I’m afraid of being sick. I’m not afraid of dying, thank God. My kids are adults, they’re grown-ups, I’ve lived enough. But I’m afraid of being sick because this sickness is fought alone. Gratosoglio 05:44 - 05:52 Look, my only fear is to not be forgiven by God and be unable to see Paradise. 05:53 - 06:00 I think that nobody thinks, “Everything will be fine” means, “Everything will be like it was before.” Cenni 06:00 - 06:08 I’m afraid we won’t go back to normal. I’m afraid my daughter’s future will be a different one. 06:08 - 06:14 My fear is being alive while people I love die. Cenni 06:14 - 06:21 The thing that I’m most of afraid is that the end never comes. Ovada 06:23 - 06:38 This thing of meeting on our balconies at noon and at 6 just to share a smile, a joke, or sing a song makes us feel closer. Gratosoglio 06:41 - 06:57 In the heat of it I won’t even take the car, I’ll run to Rozzano. I’ll hug my daughter and play with her, like I did before. And who knows, I could buy a house with my partner. Ovadia 07:02 - 07:14 I’d like to pick up again from where I was interrupted. Before being holed up in my house I was at the park, roaming for hours under the trees. That’s where I want to start from again.
Messages From Quarantine
In the age of coronavirus, the only way you can see Milan is to fly through it.
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