Next question is, "What are your Italy plans for this year?"
We have accommodations booked for early October in Italy - an AirBnB host who I am in contact with directly, not using the site. He has agreed lately to hold the apt. for us pretty much indefinitely, even though I have warned him that the chances of us making the trip are pretty slim. He's been very nice about it, has not asked for any type of down payment, and I really appreciate this.
I've been following the flight ticket prices, but haven't purchased anything yet. Except for small fluctuations and the dynamics of the somewhat volatile currency exchange rates, the price of the flight we're looking at has not really changed much since I started checking in January, and is still being offered (EasyJet).
But to tell the truth, I believe that there is no way we will be making the trip. I still don't see how we will be able to take a chance of getting infected with the virus, with no known treatments or vaccines on the horizon. I am even supposing that we - like many others - will still be practising some level of social distancing in our daily routines, until there are more definite medical answers. I don't think that by October the data available will enable to calmly go back to life as it was in pre-corona times. I hope I'm wrong, but that's my best guess right now.
The only possible way out, perhaps, is getting inadvertently infected if/when the lockdowns are eased, and hopefully having mild symptoms. That way we'll at least know that we can maybe allow ourselves to get sick, like we do with the flu. Most models are predicting that 60-70 percent of the world's population will get it eventually. Even then, there would have to be answers about if one indeed develops immunity this way to the current virus, and if there are new mutations going around.
What a mess. Too many unknowns.