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An Italian coronadiary – days 5 and 6

Katia's red clogs

More from Katia Nussbaum in Montalcino as she tries to navigate her way through lockdown. Click on the Katia's diary tag above for earlier instalments.

Day 5: 14 March 2020

Yesterday I finished at around 2.30 am talking to my sister, Eva, who lives in Freiburg, Germany.

I cannot understand the UK approach. Seems to me Boris Johnson is blustering his way through (I hear it’s called the ‘Nudge Approach’). The dangers are huge in terms of potential consequences. It seems to me more like the ‘Natural Selection Approach’. Very scary indeed.

We have decided our mother should go to...