On the 4th of May, the vast majority of Italy’s productive activities will open and almost three million workers will return to work. A first, little step towards normality, ready to be retracted should social distancing not be respected and new clusters appear, refreshing a pain that still has to fully leave our hearts. 

Because losses are immense: from the human point of view, first of all, but also economically. Every week the country spends on lockdown costs 9 billion euro (9.8 billion USD) to our GDP. It isn’t only recession that scares us, but also the fact a huge part of the country’s wealth-creating mechanism will still remain inactive: from cafés to restaurants, from stores to tourism, all of them at risk of collapsing.