{"id":1163,"date":"2020-03-18T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2022-09-27T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T10:23:18","slug":"covid-19-a-chance-to-remember-how-close-we-are-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/2020\/03\/18\/covid-19-a-chance-to-remember-how-close-we-are-to-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Outbreak: A chance to remember how close we are to each other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\">We share the impressions and thought of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/the-invite-phd-candidates\/aboubakr-mohamed-salama\/\">Aboubakr&nbsp;Mohamed Salama<\/a>, an INVITE fellows who is currently in the USA for a training period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A year ago, when I stepped into the Coliseum\nfor the first time, I was thinking how many great emperors were there. I felt\nlike I am going back in history to see all the great knights and leaders\nfollowing the processions of emperors and going around me. A unique experience\nthat I have never had, except in Luxor: the feeling that history was created in\nAncient Egypt and matured in the Great Rome to be then held to humanity.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Colosseum_in_Rome_Italy_-_April_2007-1024x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1170\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Colosseum_in_Rome_Italy_-_April_2007-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/2020\/03\/18\/covid-19-a-chance-to-remember-how-close-we-are-to-each-other\/colosseum_in_rome_italy_-_april_2007\/\" class=\"wp-image-1170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Colosseum_in_Rome_Italy_-_April_2007-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Colosseum_in_Rome_Italy_-_April_2007-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Colosseum_in_Rome_Italy_-_April_2007-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Colosseum_in_Rome_Italy_-_April_2007-1536x901.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Colosseum_in_Rome_Italy_-_April_2007-2048x1202.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ramses_II_in_Luxor_Temple.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1171\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ramses_II_in_Luxor_Temple.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/2020\/03\/18\/covid-19-a-chance-to-remember-how-close-we-are-to-each-other\/ramses_ii_in_luxor_temple\/\" class=\"wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ramses_II_in_Luxor_Temple.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ramses_II_in_Luxor_Temple-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ramses_II_in_Luxor_Temple-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">The Coliseum in Rome (left) and a statue of Ramses II in Luxor (right). Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why it is really painful to see the photos of Rome, Milan and Venice with the curfew. It is difficult to imagine the empty streets in Naples and to think that no one is visiting the Juliet\u2019s house in Verona anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot think that the friendly, easy-going Italian people \u2013 who are very close in their habits to Egyptians \u2013 are not spending the nights laughing loudly in the bars. But it seems this has become a reality, a painful reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole world now is on fire, the virus is\nspreading everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AbouBarSAlama_Louisville-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AbouBarSAlama_Louisville-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AbouBarSAlama_Louisville-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AbouBarSAlama_Louisville-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AbouBarSAlama_Louisville-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AbouBarSAlama_Louisville-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Aboubakr Salama at the Institute of Molecular Cardiology of the University of Louisville (Kentucky, US) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As I am currently in the States, I can\ndescribe the panic here, the empty stores, the germophobia and the fear of a\ncoming economic crisis. All the conferences and scientific meetings were either\ncancelled or changed to online format with ongoing discussions to postpone any\nresearch activities that are not of high priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The same panic is shared through the Egyptian media, but <strong>there is something else other than fear: it is the sense of unity and condolence<\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can follow the trend on media to know\nabout the calls for all Egyptians living in Italy now to go out of the windows\nwaving both the Egyptian and Italian flags, to show the unity during this\ncrisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Facebook group of Egyptians in Italy\nshows how they are indebted to Italy as a home asking for the maximum\ncommitment and support to the actions taken by the Italian authorities. Doctors\nin Egypt are totally sympathetic with their colleagues in Italy, especially\nafter Roberto Stella, the Italian medical chief, has passed away in the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We may be different, but this difference is\nwhat makes us human beings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During crises we are one nation, no matter the color, race or religion: <strong>hearts are the same<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Egypt, United States, everywhere, you can hear prayers for this crisis to get to an end, for all people to be safe, and for Rome to be open again for tourists as it always used to be.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We share the impressions and thought of Aboubakr Mohamed Salama, an INVITE fellows who is currently in the USA for a training period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,68],"tags":[111,110],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.centri.univr.it\/invite\/2020\/03\/18\/covid-19-a-chance-to-remember-how-close-we-are-to-each-other\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 Outbreak: A chance to remember how close we are to each other &bull; 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