Drones have been used in many parts of the world to help with the current coronavirus outbreak, from spraying disinfectant in China to posting drone footage on Twitter of UK citizens flouting the lockdown.
A mayor in Italy has taken another novel, drone-based approach to encouraging Messina residents to stay indoors during the coronavirus crisis, which has affected Italy worse than any other country.
In a video from Euronews, mayor Cateno de Luca can be heard shouting profanities at Italians venturing outdoors through speakers attached to a drone.
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“Where the **** are you going? Go home,” he tells two men in the video, who run in apparent fear from the drone.
I don’t blame the mayor; they have had the greatest infection rate in the world (well, now we’re catching up.). I’d swear, too.
The US has the highest infection rate
The highest REPORTED infection cases. Domt you dare try to say that China went from adding hundreds a day to nothing in a week. They just stopped reporting.
False
The US has the highest number of infections, not the highest infection rate. A much smaller percentage of the US population is infected than Italy, but there are far more people. One fifth of the US population is more than the entire population of Italy.
Yes, but Italy has by far the highest death toll.
He said greatest not highest.
Not per capita.
Not at the time this article was posted back in March.
It’d be hard not to go outside just to hear the mayor swear at me, lol
We are way over their rate.
How do they get food?
We are allowed one person per house to go and collect food supplies but only when absolutely necessary and we have to present completed documentation to the police. There are also volunteers who work delivering food to vulnerable people who can’t leave their houses right now.
I watched a video of a young lady that said each family has a time/day that they can go get food.
They have to get a permission slip from on line saying where they are going and why. We have friends that moved there just before it hit .
If you put the drones on wires, you could put them in the currently empty museums.
What an awesome idea 🙂
Understand his point, prayers for Italy and its plight same as here in the USA
More people have died there than in any other country?
The US is saying “Hold my beer.”
The food system is completely in place in Italy. If anything flour is hard to come by because bread and pasta making has become a major pastime while we are in quarantine. We are free to go out whenever shops are open to do necessary food purchases. Don’t overdramatized, people. We are encouraged to otherwise stay in the house. Most people do. But when we are out we are exemplary of social distancing.
Just think your walking down the streets, and all of a sudden, you hear in Italian ” get your ass inside, or I will take your baguettes! And Don’t get me started on the pizza shops! ” 🥖🍕 and you just see the tiniest drone, screeching at you…….