Take Back A Factory, Organize A City, Fight For Everything. On Sunday, May 15, a national public assembly organized by the “Insorgiamo!” — “We are Rising up!” — movement will be held in Florence, Italy. The movement began with the struggle against a factory closure and the workers’ efforts to reopen it, and from there has taken up other social demands. An interesting process of organization and struggle is taking place in Italy. Emerging from the fight to keep jobs in a closing factory and driven by debates in a democratic factory council structure, the “Insorgiamo!” (Let’s rise up!) movement was […]
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U.S. Army Paratroopers conducted off-road driver’s training with Army Ground Mobility Vehicles, also known as AGMV, at Dandolo training area, Pordenone, Italy. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands‘ areas of responsibility, the release said. As to AGMV, it is a light-weight combat vehicle designed for troop movement and holds a squad-sized element. The vehicle is meant to be air-dropped into combat. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The AGMV provides enhanced tactical mobility for an Infantry Brigade Combat Team […]
The U.S. State Department recently approved the potential sale to Italy of two Gulfstream G550 Aircraft with Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Electronic Warfare (AISREW) Mission Systems, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The possible deal, which covers electronic warfare aircraft and related equipment, has an estimated value of $500 million. “This proposed sale will support U.S. foreign policy and national security by helping to improve the security of a NATO ally, which is an important partner for political stability and economic progress in Europe,” DSCA’s notice regarding the proposed deal says. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – As […]
Introduction: VT ran across Fox News years ago, before it was what it is. The story was simple, a fake Australian billionaire, supposedly named Rupert Murdoch, the inheritor of the Maxwell-Epstein empire, wanted to buy American’s media. Murdoch, an Israeli-Australian (now US by act of congress) citizen, is a plotter. He bought Newt Gingrich, hired his wife, published Newt’s awful books and had a GOP congress give him the American based Fox network by changing law on foreign ownership. Murdoch now owns the GOP, or co-owns with Sheldon Adelson, Macao gambling boss that funds Trump. Miriam Adelson and Rupert Murdoch The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107664/94/1076649491_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_fb9bc8e74e0e1cf4d5bfc380319cbcf6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Maxim Minaev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010031080653630-one-killed-over-10-missing-as-floods-hit-northern-italy-amid-heavy-rains—video/ Heavy downpours that hit the northern regions of Italy led to widespread flooding and landslides. One person has died and 11 others are listed as missing after severe flooding hit northern Italy, according to officials. Civil protection officials said in a statement that one volunteer firefighter died during a rescue operation in Val d’Aosta. Regional authorities stated that 11 people were missing in the Piedmont region where some villages were cut off. Heavy rains have seen the longest river in Liguria, the Vara, burst its banks. The authorities in the province of […]
Austria has placed a 300 million euros ($352 million) order for 18 AW169M twin-engine helicopters from Leonardo Helicopters in a deal with Italy, Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner said on Monday. The Italian deal beat out rival efforts by the Airbus and Bell, Tanner told a news conference. According to the statement, around two thirds of the total cost will go to pay for the helicopters, and the rest will go to pay for training, logistics, spares and new infrastructure. Twelve of the helicopters will be used for operational missions, while the other six will be used for training and for […]
There’s something confusing that happens when watching television shows or movies about today’s youths, especially when the aim is to capture their lives with as much authenticity as Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino attempts in his new HBO series We Are Who We Are. You feel for them. Of course you do. Coming of age is a journey none of us weathered lightly, still nursing our emotional scars. But, increasingly, you’re terrified of them. Or are you terrified for them? It’s a tension that We Are Who We Are, like HBO’s other recent “Can you believe how teens […]
Italian police have interrogated a British photographer in connection with the drowning of a Russian glamor model in Sardinia last weekend. Galina Fedorova had been posing for shots near a major NATO base on the Italian island. Italian police have interrogated a British photographer in connection with the drowning of a Russian glamor model in Sardinia last weekend. Galina Fedorova had been posing for shots near a major NATO base on the Italian island. Snapper Yev Taranovs had reportedly been swimming with 35-year-old Fedorova when their rented inflatable dinghy lost its anchor, leaving the pair stranded in the water behind a […]
VENICE—When Martin Scorsese can give hours of his precious time to talk about shoes, you know this is about more than what’s underfoot. In Luca Guadagnino’s new documentary about the life of Salvatore Ferragamo (Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams), we see much more than a story about shoes. It is a story about desire, immigration, and heartbreak. All that’s missing is a full-on admission that this is actually all about a foot fetish. The film, which is being hawked as a fashion documentary, is anything but. It is a well-researched and beautifully-written film about a man who happened to be in fashion. […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy After Flavio Briatore, famous tycoon of Formula 1 and Billionaire nightclubs in Costa Smeralda (Sardinia) and in other extra-luxury places on earth, it is the turn of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the most important VIP between Porto Cervo and Porto Rotondo, to finish at ‘Milan hospital because it is positive for Covid-19. The SARS-2 infection seems to favor entrepreneurs committed to supporting the policies of the center-right and nationalist sovereignty in an Italy increasingly manipulated by the center-left of the Democratic Party, embroiled in the scandals among the magistrates of PalamaraGate, under […]
VENICE—During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, the island of Sardinia largely escaped any serious outbreaks. The tourist season was over and the islanders kept to themselves. When the lockdown ended in mid May, local health officials wanted to test everyone who came to the island to keep it COVID-free. That plan was largely shot down by elite mainlanders like Silvio Berlusconi, who wanted to spend the summer at his lavish villa, once best known for bunga bunga parties and the nude former Czech prime minister’s untimely erection caught on a paparazzo’s long-lens camera. The idea of any restrictions […]
Some 50 people were evacuated from the migrant rescue boat Louise Michel that got stranded off Malta’s coast after taking more than 200 people aboard. After one person died, the crew accused Europe of ignoring its pleas for help. The vessel, which reported rescuing a total of 219 people from the sea over the past few days, including “many women and children,” had become so “overcrowded” that a life raft was attached to its side, and it lost its ability to maneuver. The crew’s Twitter feed suggests they have been desperately sending distress signals and making calls to various European maritime […]
Italy on Monday launched human trials of GRAd-COV2, a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Rome-based biotechnology company ReiThera. The trial is being conducted by Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital, which specializes in infectious diseases. Over the next few weeks, 90 volunteers will receive the vaccine, Reuters reported. Francesco Vaia, the hospital’s health director, told Reuters the first patient to receive the vaccine was a 50-year-old woman who was monitored for four hours before being permitted to go home. The unidentified woman will remain under observation for 12 weeks at home to determine if she produced any antibodies to the novel coronavirus or […]
ROME—Father Jeremy Leatherby of Sacramento, California, surely knew what was coming when he continued to preach to the faithful that Pope Benedict XVI, who retired in 2013, is still the one true pope. Since the election upon Benedict’s retirement of Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, Leatherby has shunned the new pontiff and continued to only refer to Benedict as the church’s true leader in mass. Last week, after several warnings, he was charged with schism, defrocked and excommunicated from the Catholic Church. “I continue to regard Benedict as retaining the Office of Peter, as mysterious as that might be,” he wrote […]
The head of Ireland’s tourism development authority (Fáilte), Michael Cawley, has resigned after ignoring his own agency’s advice to opt for domestic ‘staycations’ and heading off on holiday to Italy instead. The resignation was announced on Saturday by Cawley himself, who said he decided to step down because he didn’t want to “allow this issue to become a distraction from the important work of Fáilte Ireland in rebuilding the Irish tourism industry.” Cawley’s sojourn to Italy ignores government advice to avoid non-essential travel abroad during the Covid-19 pandemic. Quite ironically, Cawley’s agency has also been carrying out a “major drive to […]
ROME—The crypt holding the remains of Benito Mussolini in his hometown of Predappio in northern Italy has for years drawn neofascists and other sympathizers who come to pay their ill-guided respects to Italy’s father of Fascism. And even while images from across the world have shown that old monuments to worse times are being torn down, in Italy things are very different. Just this month, Mussolini’s descendants applied to the town council to make his tomb into a national monument, citing the number of people it draws each year and the tourism dollars in the way of fascist souvenirs that are […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «There are about a thousand Syrians who fled via Zuwara and Sabratha towards Europe last week, using boats provided by a European country in support of the coast guard under al-Sarraj government, but they are now being exploited in illegal immigration». The Libyan National Army spokesman, Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, has revealed «Turkey’s involvement in smuggling Syrian mercenaries from Libya towards Europe, specifically Italy». What he does not specify is that most of the extremist Islamic factions enlisted by Ankara are not only made up of anti-Assad rebels but […]
There is pasta sauce—and then there is Bolognese. The vegetable, meat and tomato sauce is so essential to Italian cooking that the Bologna delegation to the Italian Academy of Cuisine established an official recipe for the dish in 1982. “For me it’s incredibly comforting,” says James Beard Award-winning chef Karen Akunowicz, of Boston’s Fox & the Knife, which is known for its version of the sauce. “I lived in Emilia-Romagna for a year [and] trained as a cook and a pasta maker.” Source link
NATO’s third unmanned aircraft, called the RQ-4D Phoenix, has arrived at an alliance base in southern Italy, according to Allied Air Command Public Affairs Office. The third of five Alliance Ground Surveillance drones arrived at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily on Wednesday, after completing a 22-hour test flight from Palmdale, Calif., a statement said. “The Ferry Flight of aircraft NATO-03 from California to Sicily is a significant milestone in the Alliance Ground Surveillance procurement Programme, Brigadier General Volker Samanns, the General Manager of the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Management Agency said. “Having now three Phoenix aircraft in Sigonella gives the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0e/1079884875_0:234:2843:1834_1200x675_80_0_0_eeac409b531071ce50af26c7c3a9913f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007141079885023-italy-returns-stolen-banksy-piece-in-memory-of-bataclan-shooting-to-france–reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A piece of art attributed to famous street artist Banksy in commemoration of the 2015 Paris terror attacks has been returned to France after it was stolen and discovered in Italy, media reported on Tuesday. The so-called Gate of Banksy was painted in 2018 on an emergency exit door of the Bataclan theater, where 90 people were killed by terrorists during a concert three years prior. It was stolen in 2019, before being discovered by Italian law enforcement officers in the Abruzzo region. “This work has high artistic value, it witnessed […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «In September-October we will see the results of this period of serious economic crisis. We see closed shops, citizens who do not even have the opportunity to provide for their daily needs. The government has put in place all the necessary initiatives to meet these needs, the risk is real and I see an attitude of violence against the police force absolutely to be condemned». The worst Minister of the Interior in the history of Italy from the Savoy Kingdom onwards, the ex-left prefect Luciana Lamorgese during an intervention […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «In September-October we will see the results of this period of serious economic crisis. We see closed shops, citizens who do not even have the opportunity to provide for their daily needs. The government has put in place all the necessary initiatives to meet these needs, the risk is real and I see an attitude of violence against the police force absolutely to be condemned». The worst Minister of the Interior in the history of Italy from the Savoy Kingdom onwards, the ex-left prefect Luciana Lamorgese during an intervention […]
Black Women In Italy Weren’t Being Heard, That’s Changed By Stefania Dignoti, The Lilly. July 7, 2020 Black Women In Italy Weren’t Being Heard, That’s Changed2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/italy.png200px200px Above photo: By Marioluca Bariona. Then Black Lives Matter protests began in the United States. ‘It began with the death of George Floyd in the U.S., but this is also our battle.’ Ariam Tekle had just begun co-hosting a podcast about black identities in Italy when, in late May, George Floyd was killed in police custody and a series of Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States. That outcry for social change resonated across the […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione Originale in Italiano «In 2018, the same financial police who made the bust in Salerno confiscated nearly 100 million tablets of the narcotic meant for ISIS operatives in Libya that were being shuttled from pill mills in India and Sri Lanka by way of Italy’s notoriously unguarded port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria». The Daily Beast writes many extravagant things, sometimes it turns out to be an average of fantasy, but this time it implicitly accuses Italy with some reason. Checking the coasts where, with the government’s placet, boats of African, Middle […]
_________Open DemocracyMothers and children in Italy “Nobody at my husband’s company asked him how he was going to take care of his kids during the lockdown. It was obvious that their mother would.” by Cecilia Butini Italy inches closer to a new normality after a two-month strict lockdown imposed to stem the spread of the Coronavirus, clear provisions on school reopening and childcare have been lagging behind. For many women, this means having to sacrifice their professional lives to childcare. Last April, in the middle of Italy’s lockdown, the hashtag #noncisiamo (literally “we are not there”, but it can also mean […]
Russia’s COVID-19 propaganda has not been subtle heralding the decline and fall of Europe and presenting Russia as the true champion of Western health and safety. But even the best-laid plans for turning a global pandemic into an opportunity for “active measures” haven’t always succeeded, mainly because of the Kremlin’s operatic overreaction to exposure and criticism of its influence operations, turning even its well-wishers against it. “The Kremlin’s biggest and most well-conceived propaganda coup was aimed at Italy when that country was at the height of its suffering.” Russian falsehoods on COVID-19 have taken a number of forms on the continent. […]
Summary 1 – Espulsion’s risk for 10 magistrates2 – Interference with Costitutional bodies3 – Undersecretary of 3 governments inside Magic Ring4 – Palamara’s blames the powerful lef-wing prosecutor5 – The judge: «Palamara tells names: only at beginning»6 – Broadsides by anti-mob Attorneys VS ex Republic President7 – Magistrates, spies, masons in Italy-Us Dem’s intrigues8 – From Unicef scandal to SARS experiments for vaccines “Because He who is mighty has done great things for me,and holy is His name;…He has shown might with His arm,He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.He has put down the mighty from their […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy «I was in Intensive Care Unit for 7 years, I studied Medicine breathing thanks to a tracheoctomy (incision of the throat with the insertion of a cannula – ed). I struggled for a long time before going back to breathing normally. For this reason I cannot accept that a patient dies suffocated by Myasthenia gravis which thanks to Cortisone, with an ad personam cure created by me because there is no effective formula for everyone, I was able to “switch off” in myself and in other 7 thousand patients I follow. This is […]
AC Milan have praised fiery striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s “passion and love” after agreeing a deal for the Serie A winner to remain at the club until at least the end of the season despite his temporary return to Sweden. Milan fans had feared that they might not see Ibrahimovic play for them again after the Sweden legend returned to his homeland with a suspected calf injury, where he has been for almost a month with news of his progress unclear. The transformative influence on what had been a dire season for the Italian giants had signed a contract that was due […]
ROME — In mid-May, Libyans standing on a beach in the west of the country reportedly watched a Turkish frigate off the coast fire a missile, which downed a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates. The incident has not been confirmed but is consistent with Turkey’s bold use of naval power in recent weeks as it takes a central role in a proxy war in Libya that has sucked in regional players from Russia and Egypt to Qatar and France. So far, Turkey’s foes in Libya appear to be impressed by its show of strength. “In recent days there have […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT iTaly Yesterday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, speaking in the military base of Sidi Barrani, 95 km from the Libyan border, told his army to prepare for any mission if the forces of the Government of National Agreement (GNA) will cross what is called «the red line that connects Al Jufra to Sirte». «Egypt will intervene alongside the local tribes» explained Al Sisi, «to guarantee the country’s security and stability». Today the Egyptian Foreign Minister has thrown water on the fire and clarifies the meaning of the declarations of its president: «A military […]
Earlier this week, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer pointed out that no progress had been made in negotiations between American and EU officials on a global digital tax deal. French Foreign Minister Bruno Le Maire has slammed the US over its move to suspend talks on a global digital services tax, proposed by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Referring to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s recent letter on the matter, Le Maire described the document as “a provocation”. “It’s a provocation towards all the partners at the OECD when we were centimetres away from a deal on the […]
ROME—In the back corner of Milan’s Maggiore cemetery is Campo 87, a field of hastily dug graves where 128 victims of COVID-19 were laid to rest in plots marked only with cheap plastic crosses. Those buried there were unclaimed at hospital morgues much like the scores of nameless COVID-19 victims buried in the potter’s field of New York’s Hart Island. But many of those who ended up in Milan’s Campo 87 were not interred there because they were homeless or had no families. In most cases, their family members were also COVID-19 positive and sick themselves, or under strict quarantine and […]
Earlier this month France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands joined forces to form the “Inclusive Vaccine Alliance”, in order to have a stronger negotiating position in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. The contract agreement with AstraZeneca is the alliance’s first result in securing a potential coronavirus vaccine for European countries. The Vaccine Alliance formed by France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands has signed a contract with British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to supply a coronavirus vaccine for Europe, Italy’s Health Minister said on Saturday. The contract is for 400 million doses of the vaccine which was developed at the University of […]
ROME—A queue of masked art lovers snaked around the Vatican Museum walls when it reopened on June 1 after being closed for 12 weeks. But these were no ordinary tourists—they were Romans. The museum opened two days before Italy lifted its nearly three-month lockdown, meaning movement within Italy’s various regions (as well as from outside the country) was still prohibited, so Romans could visit tourist-free. Museum director Barbara Jatta stood outside the entrance and welcomed many of the 1,600 people who reserved on the first day before they went in to get their temperatures checked. “Today is a day to celebrate, […]
ROME – Italy and France are to fund half the cost of new cutting-edge technology projects launched by Naviris, the joint venture between the countries’ leading shipyards. The money will be used for development work on computer-aided engineering, vessel lifecycle simulation, energy efficiency, fuel cells for surface vessels, logistics and new technologies for helping sail in rough weather. Naviris is a 50-50 joint venture launched in 2019 by Italy’s Fincantieri and France’s Naval Group to develop common vessels including a new European corvette which has attracted interest from Spain after Greece signed up. The deal on funding for new research, announced […]
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice because they will be satisfied“Jesus Christ – Matthew’s Gospel 5,6 by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy VERSIONE COMPLETA ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO Finally, after decades of vague or difficult to document accusations, the conspiracies of the notorious “Red Togas” (left-wing magistrates) come to the surface to quench that thirst for justice that burns in the throats craving for truth even more than in those hungry for political revenge. That’s why with this report we open a new cycle of investigations on the PalamaraGate scandal that is causing the Italian judiciary to […]
Lorenzo Guerini said he “confirmed that the program would continue,” after calls from Italy’s Five Star party to halt F-35 purchases for a year to pay for a coronavirus rebound. Source link
Italy urged fellow EU countries to work together to reanimate the tourism industry after the coronavirus pandemic, speaking against any bilateral deals between member states – after Rome reportedly considered doing just that. All European countries should open their borders at once after passing the Covid-19 peak, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said in a speech broadcast on Facebook on Monday. “We need to restart the country and ensure the safety of Italians. This is why Italy has the opportunity to welcome tourists from other EU countries in summer. We are already working on a safe and concrete tourist plan,” […]
Italy is under John Durham’s radar as he continues his investigation into Obamagate. The US Attorney appointed by Attorney General Bill Barr is looking into crimes against candidate and President Trump before and after the 2016 election. Last week a list of individuals who unmasked information related to General Mike Flynn was released by the Acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell. The list included numerous Obama Administration higher ups, including his Vice President Joe Biden, former FBI Director James Comey and Susan Rice. The list of unmaskers also included some individuals you would never suspect of requiring the need to […]
There are now four members of the European Patrol Corvette program, created to design and develop a prototype of a modular 3,300-ton ship responsible for a number of tasks and missions, including… Source link
VENICE—If the coronavirus pandemic has taught Italians anything, it’s that the cost of being too close can be too high. Italy, with a population of just over 60 million, has logged more than 221,000 cases and 30,000 deaths since the outbreak began Feb. 25. Unlike the United States, which has clearly chosen economic viability over human life, Italy and many other European countries have had a different approach, focusing on science and restraint—at least until now. But three months into the pandemic, as the first glimpses of post-lockdown liberation coincide with warm spring nights, many in the hardest hit areas seem […]
Europe 14:09 GMT 09.05.2020Get short URL Moscow sent over a dozen military transport planes with equipment and specialists to Italy back in March to help the country in its efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 infection. The second group of Russian military service members, who were previously stationed in Bergamo, Italy, has moved out to the airport near the city of Verona and will be leaving the country soon, the Russian Defence Ministry announced. The ministry further added that Il-76 cargo planes will bring the Russian military personnel and medical specialists home, along with some of their equipment, with […]
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced on Friday that the first column with Russian military personnel and special equipment performing tasks to assist in the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection in Italy marches from the point of temporary deployment of the Orio-al-Serio airfield in Bergamo to the Villafranca airfield in Verona. “Upon arrival at the airfield, personnel and equipment will be loaded onto Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 for departure to their Homeland,” the news release says. It is planned to make two flights and deliver about 20 military personnel and 4 units of special equipment […]
Note: The email below, bolstered by the medically approved video, confirms the fears of many who ask “why so many die there but not elsewhere?” The text below is from a private email by a retired SIS member from Britain who is now with VT. Submitted by Peter Paget to VT The new mutation is D614G COVID virus and it is the one that infected Italy and is 20 times more DANGEROUS than the original in China, although they have both now. Hence someone getting the original strain can then be re-infected by the new mutation and they get A LOT […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian Defence Ministry will start on Thursday withdrawing from Italy the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protection troops that provided COVID-19 response assistance to the country, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said. “Tomorrow, we will start withdrawing NBC protection troops from Italy. I ask the chief of the General Staff to organize a solemn reception of the interservice teams, and to provide me with offers on stimulation for the distinguished military, doctors and all those who engaged in the disinfection of Italy’s cities and facilities,” Shoigu said. Since March 22, 15 Russian military aircraft, carrying virology and epidemiology […]
As the Neil Ferguson scandal dominates headlines across the UK media, many online are questioning the rather conspicuous timing of the revelations, which coincide with grim and embarrassing news for the government. The one-time UK coronavirus tsar Ferguson resigned in disgrace from his position as advisor and strategist to 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night amid revelations of a tryst with a married woman, 38-year-old Antonia Starts, which contravened his own proposed lockdown and social distancing measures. The first reported instance of their now widely-covered lockdown love affair took place on March 30, followed by another romantic get-together on April 8. […]