Italy is hit hard, and lets give those here the benefit of our many doubts that they are well meaning and want only to help- even if they are struggling to know how. The truth is that all of Italy is in a crisis that we can only imagine- they are living it.

What we can do I do not know. I have sent messages to my friends and colleagues who are from Italy but still have failed to be of any use. One feels ones impotency in these times.
The only potency we do have, is local to us: so do what you can--- its weak but that is what we have.