While Italy is experiencing a shitshow and nobody knows what the fuck is happening and why (and why to Italy, when China handled it so much better - "Isn't it just a flu?"), our politicians have been sooo funny :D The dictator-wanna-be guy took over for the third time and started with his immigration and anti-abortion shit and everyone was like: Ye, dude, not now. ... He got shut down in a minute. If he had the sense to promise more hospital solutions and better care, he'd have won the people by now, but of course, that would mean actually delivering on the subject. At the moment everyone just knows he's gonna waste money on our shitty army and implementing religious bullshit in schools and same old. Nobody has time for that now. Now those who can steal will steal and those who get paid for doing so will point fingers at why money wasn't handled better and aww, poor people, taxes will have to be higher for a little while. Same old, same old indeed. 

The one thing that really had me laughing was the mayor of the capital, when smaller regions were shutting down schools, bars, and traffic, him saying he's not gonna fall for this race of "who's shutting down more" and making lives of people harder... He's, you know, the cool politician.

       Well, yesterday the day was super sunny and warm and tons of people were out and hanging in the parks and at hiking stops and being jolly, Instagram shots circling the IG... and he was like: what the fuck is wrong with you?! Which part of 'highly contagious pandemic we are trying to prevent before it gets insane don't you get?!'

Ah, dude. As long as you are the hip one.

The statistics game has been curious and since this is such a new thing, nobody knows much of anything for certain. For example, numbers are so super low in US, because people have to pay for their testing and it's not cheap. There are no cases to speak of in Africa while Iran is going wild. Italy is suffering the worst at the moment, but is it because a) it has high elderly population, b) a lot of them are smokers, c) they commonly greet one another by kissing cheeks, d) a lot of mild cases aren't being reported so mortality seems so dense, e) nobody remembers being paranoid, so people didn't think to care until it hit the fan?

If it gets resolved in the next few days, it will just be a dramatic scare, most people hardly having noticed it and for others a mere inconvenience. But if it doesn't get resolved in a few days... I have been stacking craft supplies for decades. I'm just saying. You gosta be prepared. I grew up in Yugoslavija. We were always trained for the next shitty situation. Generation of my parents still keeps enough food to feed a village in their basements. An adorable meme circling these days: We may have to resort back to the days of hunting ... but I have no idea where hamburgers live or how you hunt them down!