{"id":4507,"date":"2022-01-26T19:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2022-01-26T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:16:45","slug":"mola-mia-a-reaction-to-a-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/4507\/mola-mia-a-reaction-to-a-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mola Mia, a reaction to a tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Facemasks has become an essential part of the wardrobe from the citizens of Bergamo. When walking on the streets, you see a pairs of eyes with beneath a hidden mouth and chin. That is covered with all kinds of masks. The normal medical mask, the FFP2 mask, masks with colors, every kind you can think of. Some of the stylish people even wear a matching mask with the rest of their clothing. When talking to each other with the typical Italian hand gestures, the masks stay all the way on. \u2018With everything we have been through, we accept the masks and gladly wear them. Even though in the beginning it was also very strange for us\u2019, says Nicola Brugali. He works as a data scientist at Intwig in Bergamo. But two years into the pandemic wearing it has become the most normal thing in the world. Surprisingly, no masks are found anywhere in the streets. Either people wear them or throw them away at home or in the trashcans. The people in Bergamo think that in other places than Bergamo people are more careless with the masks. In Europe, but even in Italy. \u2018When I visited Belgium and the Netherlands, people gave me weird looks because I always wore my mask, even outside. For us is that the new normal.\u2019<\/p>\n
Two years ago, when this pandemic started, the city in the north of Italy was terribly hit by Covid. The city was known for the viral pictures of the army tanks transporting the dead bodies to surrounding towns from Bergamo. The huge cemetery in Bergamo couldn\u2019t keep up with all the people that died. Aldo Cristadoro lived and worked in Bergamo during the first wave of Covid. \u2018The situation here was like war, something that was almost unreal. We will never forget what happened, it will forever be in our memory. When we were working from home, we heard the sirens from the ambulances all day long. So when I hear ambulances now, I immediately think about that time.\u2019 The city has 120,000 habitants and the whole province a little bit over 1 million. During the first wave, in the city almost 600 people and in the province 7,000 people died of Covid. With these numbers, Bergamo was seen as the epicenter of Covid in the beginning of this pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n[aesop_gallery id=”4540″ revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n\n
Surviving the unreal <\/strong><\/p>\n