They have no protections from that economic hit. Some folks who work as adjuncts, for them teaching over the summer is very crucial. We’re finishing a semester, but we just got an announcement that some of our classes are going to be canceled. That said, there’s going to be a lot of worries about the longer-term economic repercussions of this. For a lot of people, the main thing has been to adjust to working from home. We are scrambling to find a way for students to finish the semester abroad without losing credits. When the State Department raised the threat level to 3, that happened a couple of weeks ago, that was when they started talking about various plans of going forward and ultimately decided to send students home. I’ve had some friends, the people I met up with yesterday, they didn’t wanna come and didn’t wanna take public transportation to get there.Īs a professor who works with US students, how has work changed for you? Romans tend to do their gatherings in the piazza. So there’s not a lot of places for gatherings. As of yesterday, even restaurants and bars are supposed to close earlier. I haven’t avoided going out, but there are a number of things that are completely shut down. What about your social life? Has that been affected? Maybe I’ll regret that in a little while. But yeah…I don’t think I have done anything else differently.
I did make sure that I was stocked up on wine. It’s been hard for Italians to stop the cheek kissing, and you see people moving in and wondering, are we doing this or not doing this? Walking down, I noticed some gelaterias and restaurants that have “closed for holiday” signs, but I don’t know if that was because of the shutdown or not.
I was at the market on Saturday and a lot of the vendors in the market were wearing masks. Everyone in the supermarket has these rubber gloves on, which seems ridiculous, but everyone was doing it and so I was doing it too. set up little stations here with spray bottles and disposable rubber gloves. I was trying to figure out what shelves looked particularly empty to see what kinds of things people were stocking up on. I noticed that there are places that I walked by when I went to the market this morning that were closed. How has Rome changed since the government started implementing changes? It’s still not clear to me what that really means. While we were at this bar, one of my friends got a notification that they were going to lock down the whole country. (Wingenter’s answers have been edited for clarity.)Īnne Wingenter: I was out with friends last night at a bar to have an aperitivo. She’s a professor at a Loyola University Chicago campus in Rome, where she’s lived since 2003. Italian authorities restricted travel to and from northern regions of Italy, and local governments shut down clubs and museums and mandated restaurants to keep customers at least 1 meter - roughly 3 feet - apart.īuzzFeed News spoke to an American who lives in Italy, Anne Wingenter, 51, about how her life has changed. With more than 10,000 registered cases of the coronavirus, Italy is the second-largest center of the rapidly spreading virus after China. Italian authorities imposed nationwide travel restrictions Monday, grounding the country’s 60 million inhabitants.
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