I Am Quarantined in Northern Italy. Here’s What It’s Like.

A first-person look inside the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy

Greg Hopkins
Elemental
Published in
5 min readMar 9, 2020

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Eerily calm plaza in the northern Lombardia region. Photo by author.

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TThis morning, I stopped by a coffee bar near my house. I’ve become friends with the barista, Stefano. As Stefano prepared my macchiato lungo, he said he had some sad news…

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Greg Hopkins
Elemental

Retired. Surrounded by beauty. Grateful to have (sort of) escaped the matrix. Fascinated by our collective evolutionary journey.