RE: Other side - watercolor on paper mixed with SARS-CoV-2
Armando, I know this corona virus thing is unsettling, Italy is particularly hard struck so far, and it is certainly nothing to ignore. But to put it in perspective and hopefully make you sleep better again, consider this: EVERY YEAR WE HAVE AN INFLUENZA SEASON WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DEATHS IN EUROPE - and nobody is even talking about it, let alone worry about it! It's part of life, and if your number is up, it's up.
I suspect much more sinister motives behind the miscellaneous measures taken by our respective governments. A disease outbreak with a lot of press is a wonderful occassion to curtail people's civil liberties without them complaining. I honestly think this is what this is about. Our governments a.k.a. EU are trying out "how much China" they can impose on us! Northern Italy is ideal, because of the recent successes of your Salvini Lega. If it's working there, it will work anywhere. Just an idea...
A well disinfected hug, my friend.
P.S. The art is great, as always.
Dear my friend, I too have a half theory about a strategy for crippling.
I state that I have very different ideas of that fucking ass of salvini (in lowercase) and I also fight it politically. I think, however, all this only benefits the pharmaceutical multinationals and the reduction of the popular will to move with the head and with the ideas (as you say).
We are in shit and not from the health point of view from the point of view of freedom controlled by a centralized government.
A clean embrace without Lega and salvini.
I'm sorry, I should have expressed that better: When I wrote "your Salvini Lega" I didn't mean to imply that you personally have political sympathies for that group. I should have written "the Italian Salvini Lega". Mi dispiace!
The gist of my idea is that Northern Italy has a particularly strong anti-EU voter base which makes it a perfect political test run for anti-democratic measures. So they impose the strictest quarantine measures there first, to see how the people will react. They could have used Paris instead, but there it would be much harder to cleanly distinguish the results from the general unrest (gilets jaunes etc.) caused by Macron's policies.
Exactly! Time will tell what's really behind it all.
Allow me to express my opinion: Salvini (and his party, which has been in government for several years) is only apparently against the Euro, but in the facts it is completely aligned with the supranational oligarchy that commands the world.
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This may be so; I don't know enough about regional politics in Italy to have a really firm opinion and our press here as anywhere tends to lie, i. e. tell us what they want us to believe. It was just an idea. Other explanations may be just as valid, the medical ones being just a side effect of the real circumstances.
The important fact is that they have (UE and Pharma) chosen two Regions which are politically administered by incompetent and sectarian political figures and who have spread a policy of social exclusion and racism, just like SARS Cov-2.
I almost agree with your thesis in fact Lombardy and Veneto are administered by completely incompetent politicians who have already changed their minds on the government's restrictions several times.
So they don't know how to act.
It's not a thesis, just an idea. Pharma... That's as good a guess as any. But I submit to you, the common cold is also a corona virus AFAIK. They don't have a cure for that, yet they're claiming they'll have a medicine for this variant inside a year or so? Why not for the common cold? Could it be they're making too much money relieving cold symptoms? Liars, nothing but greedy liars :-)