Knocking on Italy’s door

If you are knocking on Italy’s door, don't do it. It will not open to you. It is closed for quarantine.

Last night at 9.40 pm Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte informed us that, in order to fight the coronavirus infection more effectively, he decided to close all the shops, except for the essential ones - pharmacies and supermarkets. Right decision, I challenge you to find someone who disagrees.

But will the Italians really be able to stay at home without doing anything, sitting on the couch, for two weeks? I don’t know. I think it will be too challenging for us.

an Italian clearly stressed for the quarantine (maschioalfa)

I don't want to make the usual list of tips for things to do at home waiting for the reopening of the country, such as gardening, tidying the cellar, the garage, dusting over high furniture etc. I only allow myself one advice per category. 

dust I found on the closet during the quarantine (maxresdefault)

Women! Do you know that hair mask that you should keep on for at least fifteen minutes but you can't keep on for more than half a second before washing? Now you have the opportunity to make it act for fifteen days: don't waste it. 

Women, your hair will shine after fifteen days of mask (deabyday)

Men! Do you know when your wife tells you to cut the grass of the garden and you postpone and postpone and postpone until it reaches the height of the savannah? Now you have all the time to do it. Furthermore, if you show a little commitment to your wife, she will certainly leave you alone in front of the TV in the company of some beer for at least half an hour and will turn a blind eye to those filthy images that you send with friends on whatsapp chats and which you believe she does not notice but instead of course that she does. Because she is not stupid (she). 

Beers my husband bought to survive the quarantine (alamy)

Children! Do you know your parents who don't read stories or play with you or leave you for hours in front of the TV because they don't have time for you? Here they are now. Make good use of them.

An Italian dad taking care with enthusiasm of his son during the quarantine (the conversation)

Two weeks are few. Two weeks go by like quickly. My daughter seems to have been born for two weeks, but seven years have passed. My fear, in fact, is not that the Italians don't last two weeks at home, but that they get carried away and let seven years go by. 

supposed reaction of an Italian when the government will tell him that he can go back to work (supereva)

So, Italians, don't complain. And think about when everything will end and, after two days of work, you will complain that you have returned to life as usual. 

Meanwhile, if you really don't know how to pass the time, do as Alberto Sordi recommends in this video:

'While the world was fighting I was stuck in the cellar, alone, without light, without water, always wine, only wine'

'And did you leave when the war was over?'

'No. When I ran out of wine'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDcg3VClQUE

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