Do you have enough food in the fridge?”My mother was born three years after World War II ended, in a village in the south of Italy. My parents don’t live in Milan but in a small town about 200 miles from here. For my mother’s 72nd birthday, we gave her and my father tickets to hear a famous singer from their generation. She says good morning to everyone, but the tone of her voice says something else — probably it’s not going to be a good morning and not even a good day. The escalation of infections in our country from the novel coronavirus forced our government to severely restrict our personal freedoms.

Source: Washington Post March 14, 2020 18:40 UTC