Conte, the prime minister of the pandemic: “At first I thought we would all die”
"There was no information coming from China and I understood that we would be facing something that not even scientists were aware of"
ROME – Giuseppe Conte, the Prime Minister of Italy in a pandemic, thought we would all die. He confessed this to Un Giorno da Pecora, on Rai Radio1, interviewed by Giorgio Lauro and Geppi Cucciari.
“Especially when you see that the number of deaths begins to grow exponentially, you start to think: here we have no solutions, the experts don’t tell us anything, here we will be overwhelmed by this virus, if it continues like this we will all die.< /strong> You grasp this thing for a moment, you think about it inside yourself, in your brain, then you throw it away and work like crazy to solve it”.
Conte describes the early days of the pandemic like this: “At the beginning I returned from Brussels and immediately went to the civil protection office and realized that no one had clear ideas, which didn’t change after a few days”. And then things don’t get better. “No information was arriving from China and I understood that we would be facing something that not even scientists were aware of. This happened for weeks – Conte explained to Un Giorno da Pecora – there was no information circulating, the sequence of the virus , there was a debate among scientists also regarding the measures on the distances to be taken, the USA two meters, the others one and a half metres, it was all like that”.