Sorry for this long post. But dear friends, here in Italy the situation is very serious: 47021 cases, 19185 in isolation, 16020 hospitalized, 2655 in intensive care, 4032 deaths, 627 deaths today, 5129 healed. Hospitals are collapsing: 3359 infected health workers, 18 doctors died. I sincerely wish you better in the USA. I love you all, and I name you in the order in which you have kindly intervened in the posts created by me: NGI TOM, Kirsch, Gman757, 6mm06, JB-WI, varminter, case-nh, reaper4, Rookietjx2, old cat, capitol , Indyote, Ohiolongarm, Hellgate, TN Lone Wolf, jcs271, DoubleUp, Weekender, limbhanger10, TXCOONDOG, greengt88, Victor TNVC, ah929rr, Geeb. But I also love all the others in the predator master forum .... I absolutely want to be able to write, discuss, exchange photos and hunting videos with all of you also next year. So I ask you, with my heart in my hand: stay all at home, close everything, stop all activities. Have your food brought home by the National Guard who you must deploy on the streets to enforce an absolute quarantine.
This is the letter I wrote to the President of Lombardy, the region most affected ....
"Dear Attilio, with tears in my eyes, I send you a heartfelt appeal: 15 DAYS OF MILAN FOR LIFE. I am a retired Mathematics teacher from Padua, born in 1949. I am particularly close to you in these dramatic moments. My grandfather was named after you and in 1956 he accompanied me to play with my little brother (born in 1955) in a stroller, in Prato della Valle, the largest and most beautiful square in Europe. He told me how he had saved himself from the terrible Spanish pandemic that had raged in several waves from 1918 to 1920, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, especially among young people. At the time I was too young to understand, I had to wait 64 years, but now I understand the distressing stories of grandfather Attilio. Yesterday I went shopping at the supermarket in Prato della Valle. I had sprayer with water and bleach, shopping trolley, double mask, disposable gloves, cap, scarf, jacket, which I leave in the box when I get home. But I was shocked and I was afraid ... In the largest square in Europe there were (fortunately not many, given the vastness of the area) boys and girls running, some on foot, some on bicycles, some with the skates and also with the mono skate. There were also people walking the dog and a police patrol who only stopped the cars for checks. Meanwhile, in Lombardy, you, Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, and many others of the health staff, sacrificed their lives (like our grandparents at the front in the 1st World War), to save the lives of the sick. It is unacceptable for this to happen! We must win the battle of Lombardy, we must prevent Milan from being attacked. In Milan we decide on all our lives. If you fall, all of Italy falls. Today, my son, a civil engineer, sent me the photo, from Stuttgart, of the practically empty carriage of the underground, which he uses to go to the construction site. This image is emblematic if we compare it with the videos of the Milan underground ... The Germans are taking it much more seriously than we do.
Dear Attilio, we have to close everything for 15 DAYS. There are no alternatives. We immediately close the metro, trams, buses, trains, we close offices, post offices, banks, factories. We also close supermarkets. The military and civil protection volunteers will take the shopping home. Let's learn how Hong Kong won this war against coronavirus in just 15 DAYS OF TOTAL QUARANTINE CLOSED AT HOME! Last night, during a television broadcast, they talked practically only about the economic aspects, that is about MONEY! But little of lives that are lost. Unbearable! Nobody will lose their lives for 15 lost days of work or firm industrial production! They still don't understand. Life has absolute priority! When everything is gone, the economy will recover, as after every war. Attilio, even if I don't know you, I love you like you were a brother. You are the only one who has understood and who can do something strong, indispensable to save your and our lives. When everything is over, I would like to be able to walk with you and my brother through Prato della Valle, admiring the charm of this wonderful square, but to do it we must all be alive! So please, I implore you, accept my appeal, let's send this message: 15 DAYS OF MILAN FOR LIFE. In my own small way, I make myself available to help children, who ask me, to do their remote math homework. At your best, you have to talk to those in the button room and make them understand what this means, which is not just a slogan, but an indifferent life-saving appeal: 15 DAYS OF MILAN FOR LIFE
With a strong and dear hug, I am close to you "
This is the letter I wrote to the President of Lombardy, the region most affected ....
"Dear Attilio, with tears in my eyes, I send you a heartfelt appeal: 15 DAYS OF MILAN FOR LIFE. I am a retired Mathematics teacher from Padua, born in 1949. I am particularly close to you in these dramatic moments. My grandfather was named after you and in 1956 he accompanied me to play with my little brother (born in 1955) in a stroller, in Prato della Valle, the largest and most beautiful square in Europe. He told me how he had saved himself from the terrible Spanish pandemic that had raged in several waves from 1918 to 1920, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, especially among young people. At the time I was too young to understand, I had to wait 64 years, but now I understand the distressing stories of grandfather Attilio. Yesterday I went shopping at the supermarket in Prato della Valle. I had sprayer with water and bleach, shopping trolley, double mask, disposable gloves, cap, scarf, jacket, which I leave in the box when I get home. But I was shocked and I was afraid ... In the largest square in Europe there were (fortunately not many, given the vastness of the area) boys and girls running, some on foot, some on bicycles, some with the skates and also with the mono skate. There were also people walking the dog and a police patrol who only stopped the cars for checks. Meanwhile, in Lombardy, you, Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, and many others of the health staff, sacrificed their lives (like our grandparents at the front in the 1st World War), to save the lives of the sick. It is unacceptable for this to happen! We must win the battle of Lombardy, we must prevent Milan from being attacked. In Milan we decide on all our lives. If you fall, all of Italy falls. Today, my son, a civil engineer, sent me the photo, from Stuttgart, of the practically empty carriage of the underground, which he uses to go to the construction site. This image is emblematic if we compare it with the videos of the Milan underground ... The Germans are taking it much more seriously than we do.
Dear Attilio, we have to close everything for 15 DAYS. There are no alternatives. We immediately close the metro, trams, buses, trains, we close offices, post offices, banks, factories. We also close supermarkets. The military and civil protection volunteers will take the shopping home. Let's learn how Hong Kong won this war against coronavirus in just 15 DAYS OF TOTAL QUARANTINE CLOSED AT HOME! Last night, during a television broadcast, they talked practically only about the economic aspects, that is about MONEY! But little of lives that are lost. Unbearable! Nobody will lose their lives for 15 lost days of work or firm industrial production! They still don't understand. Life has absolute priority! When everything is gone, the economy will recover, as after every war. Attilio, even if I don't know you, I love you like you were a brother. You are the only one who has understood and who can do something strong, indispensable to save your and our lives. When everything is over, I would like to be able to walk with you and my brother through Prato della Valle, admiring the charm of this wonderful square, but to do it we must all be alive! So please, I implore you, accept my appeal, let's send this message: 15 DAYS OF MILAN FOR LIFE. In my own small way, I make myself available to help children, who ask me, to do their remote math homework. At your best, you have to talk to those in the button room and make them understand what this means, which is not just a slogan, but an indifferent life-saving appeal: 15 DAYS OF MILAN FOR LIFE
With a strong and dear hug, I am close to you "
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