Americans would probably love Naples for its most prominent export, pizza, but the governor of southern Italy had many options for the American holiday exported to Halloween when Naples collapsed from the outbreak of coronavirus infections.
The governor of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, called the holiday a “stupid American extravagance” and a “monument to imbecility” by uttering a curfew at 10 p. m. in Naples and the surrounding domains on Halloween weekend.
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De Luca blamed other “irresponsible” young people for the infection outbreak in Campania, and this week closed schools for face-to-face learning for two weeks.
Your bah-humbug on Halloween consistent with this deceptive line. While Italy has long celebrated the devoted All Saints’ Day and All Saints’ Day holidays, Halloween has only taken off in the last generation, the ultimate in southern Italy.
Campania was largely saved from the first wave of COVID-19, however, the region is now one of the most affected in Italy and is at a critical level, as it has far fewer hospital beds, extensive care sets and a medical body of workers than other regions of similar size.
De Luca won praise, and some other mandate, for adopting a hard line to reduce infections during the initial epidemic in Italy, but his resolve to move all online learning has led to complaints from the minister of education and protests from parents.
His Halloween diatribe sparked ridicule on social media on Saturday with the hashtag #allouin, which is the way “Halloween” is written in Italian.
The perorata included in one of De Luca’s Facebook videos about COVID-19, which presents its colorful language and apparent frustration that Neapolitans disobey social estating regulations and hide mandates.
“How can you be so irresponsible?” He demanded friday students wear their mask around their chins than on their noses.
Corriere della Sera, analyzing De Luca’s most recent video, noted that the italian center-left veteran is in a complicated scenario as Campania’s hospital capacity can no longer handle more serious infections, but commentator Fabrizio Roncone criticized the governor’s dictatorial leanings. , saying he treated citizens as “subjects. “
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