@ceciliasala

Journalist

Rome, Italy

How are you living the quarantine? Fears and dreams?

I scheduled my cigarettes, for a start. Then, I cook more than my grandma's in the festivities. I listen to many podcasts, my favourite one is In the dark, the one that got Curtis Flowers out of jail.

Everybody's talking about this virus as if it's some sort of war, so right now I'm on the same spot - even if I don't know if staying at home, watching videos on YouTube and buy stuff on Amazon can be compared to "being at war" - but my first thought was that this is going to be as the year 1968. I know, it sounds crazy, because this pandemic is a tragedy, while '68 was not - and it didn't come unexpectedly. But follow my lead: after this crisis, we're going to live a radical change of our leadership. The world is going to look completely different and all the protagonists of what happened "before" will not be able to find their coordinates to live in the "after". So, in this sense, the change is going to be huge, just like it happened in 1968. I know that we all hate the word "storytelling", but in this case it's important to understand that the storytelling of our present will be not enough once we'll be gone through this crisis.

I miss my travels: I'm a foreign correspondent, so I'll not be able to exercise my profession for a while. I hope that this won't sound irresponsible, but I don't think that I fear this pandemic.

What is your soundtrack?

Merce Funebre by Tutti Fenomeni