covid 19 panic-induced hoarding

[Sergio Natali]

Here in Italy all started probably in February from ONE single person, a businessman that came back from China with some other German colleagues, they had been in China for a conference, and he came back to Italy through Germany, and they though they could easily detect all the people he had been with for the previous ten days, but they were wrong and now we see the results.
In the last 20 days we've had pretty strong restrictions but abroad they didn't learn from our bad experience.
Genuinely don't think that in other countries anyone is taking this seriously enough, and probably won't be until something happens to one of their loved one.
In Europe I seem to notice that everyone still congregating with little or no protection... Where are the masks?? Why aren't staff in shops and public transport being given gloves and masks?? Why other countries in Europe haven't learned from our experience? Why were they only criticizing us instead of taking measures to prevent the contagion ?
Here in Italy we are all shocked at how hard this has hit other countries, and can't understand why are they still doing pretty much nothing to try and control the situation.

God bless us all.