How Italy Flattened the Curve - While U.S. Numbers Go Up: LIVE From Bolzano
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Connecticut native Rebecca Couto da Silva, who now lives in Bolzano, Italy, said that it's "a little crazy" that the U.S. coronavirus numbers continue to rise -- while restrictions are loosening in Italy as the country reopens.
On Friday, it was reported that "U.S. Coronavirus Cases Soar as 18 States Set Single-Day Records This Week" -- and Friday was the fourth day running that the United States reported over 1,100 deaths.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST"What we did, we realize it was probably a bit overkill — although you couldn’t have known it at the time," said da Silva of Italy's reaction to handling the outbreak at the outset. "It might have been just enough for everyone to put on a mask and to have a much shorter lockdown."
"That’s not a criticism of what happened because obviously everyone learned as they went," she said in her weekly appearance on GoLocal LIVE. "So for us to have gone through all this struggle to you know to show that the curve can be flat — we didn’t do it to show the curve could be flat, we did it to flatten the curve."
"So the idea that [cases in the U.S.] are being allowed to grow like that it’s just a little crazy," said da Silva. "There are a lot of people here not necessarily respecting social distancing and mask use but I think people realize that if it creeps up again then we’re probably going to get hit hard with this idea of everyone wear a mask, everyone start complying, or you’re all getting locked down again."
The New England native also spoke to what would normally be the peak tourism season -- and Americans being glaringly absent.
"Where I live feels very normal — except for the lack of Americans. We tend to get a lot of Germans and Austrians here and Italians from further south. It feels like we have the same number of people," she said. "Everyone’s pretty much got a mask on them because it’s a problem if you don’t. If you’re caught without a mask you’re basically caught without the ability to protect the public. I’m not sure if it’s a civil penalty or a crime but if it’s a civil penalty it’s a pretty hefty one."
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