Hi Ken
Thank you for the reminder about trimming tails. I find this
information about Italy interesting and relevant to those of us that
are looking at how social design can improve the way that we navigate
this difficult time. I don't understand why you suggest that
Australian examples are not relevant to the greater design community.
It seems to me that the Australian and New Zealand examples are very
good case studies, mainly because these are examples of controlled
experiments. At the moment they seem to be offering suggestions of
ways that social design can improve the situation. I was pleased to
read Terrence Love's contribution because it made sense of his many
previous posts referring to feedback loops.
If there is are to be constraints to the subject matter and regional
content on this list, then maybe these rules should be made explicit.
I find lots of content on this list irrelevant and I delete it. I
don't have any problems with band width, but I'm sure that there may
be pockets of the world where these issues remain and will ensure that
I keep cutting tails.
Regards
Alun

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 Dear Yeqiu Yang,

 As you probably know, it is not usual in Italy to wear masks. People
often go to work or visit friends and relatives with a cold or a flu:
they do not wear masks, they simply take a pill, risk a worsening of
the symptoms and do not bother wether they infect other people. My
father is a doctor, and he detest this carelessness. Unfortunately,
advertising encourage these behaviours. Even the distance of respect
in Italy is different in comparison to China, as I noticed last time I
went in Beijing, in November. And, as everyone knows, in Italy we kiss
our new friends. The rules of courtesy, as every semiotic system, are
arbitrary and conventional. Chinese people could consider Italian
people very rude; vice-versa, we consider Chinese very formal and a
little cold. As you wrote, wearing the mask not only protects yourself
but is also responsible for others. In my opinion, in Italian culture
the notion of "responsibility for others" is weak as it concerns
seasonal diseases and other problems. For example, we have a strong
anti-vax movement and government was forced to sanction the families
of unvaccinated children.
 When facing the Coronavirus pandemic, all this may have played a role
in the Italian delay. If we compare China and Italy, the difference is
8 days in declaring the lockdown from the start of the emergency. This
is why some researchers at the university La Sapienza sent an open
letter to governments to accelerate in the adoption of these measures.
 Best regards and best of luck on your PhD.




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