Chronicle: "The worst are still those who violate the quarantine"

"I wanted to meet my girlfriend". "I don't want to be trapped and bored". "I was scared". "I felt healthy". These are some of the explanations people have broken their corona quarantine. So do those who do not care if they infect others.

In Italy, over 3,000 people have now been infected and more than 1 00 have died, the number is ticking up as I write. During Wednesday afternoon, the government is expected to decide to close all schools and universities throughout the country by mid-March.

The country has been divided into three zones. The iron ring around the isolated municipalities, in the red zone, remains. The yellow zone is a growing number of regions north and the third zone the rest of the country. The infection is everywhere, also in Rome where hotel bookings are said to have decreased by 90 percent.

But it is towards the red zone the eyes turn in anxious countdown. The main goal has been for the multimillion-city city of Milan, the engine of the Italian economy, to escape a large number of infected people, something that the healthcare system would find difficult to manage. Intensive care sites are already lacking in several cities and heroic personnel are struggling almost 24 hours a day.

In the isolated villages, people are struggling to make time go by. On television, RAI broadcasts programs like "Antivirus". The image of Silvio Berlusconi with red string panties as a face mask is spread along with a plethora of other virus jokes. A fine pastry shop in Genoa sells corona pastries.

Man's way of surviving and fighting grief, fear and a strong concern for personal bankruptcies and national economic collapse.

While many are showing their best pages, so are the others. Those who turn the fear into hostility, those who point out or suspect the suspected infected families, teachers and neighbors in social media.

The worst are still those who break the quarantine.

An infected 71-year-old man smashed in a taxi from the hospital in Como. The driver must now be isolated.

In the red zone, a number of people have tried to escape over fields and small roads at night. One was found as far away as in Florence where he took the train. Two teachers boarded a bus to get to their hometowns. A young man wanted to his girlfriend at a ski resort. The reasons are different, selfishness in common. Now the controls are even tougher and everyone risks prosecution, except the people's anger.

The hope is to keep the infection under reasonable control and to recall the facts.

In Lombardy, people over 65 are advised not to go out at all in two weeks. Healthy adults, young people and children, on the other hand, are advised to live as usual, as far as possible, without fear and bullying mentality, in consideration and care for each other. The best way to keep a society on its feet, in times of crisis.

In Italy, as well as in Sweden.