The city is empty but not silent, with the comings and goings of sirens and ambulances. The lockdown between bewilderment, fears but also trust. The relentless battle of health care against a virus for which "nothing was foreseen" as underlined Pier Paolo Terragni, director of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital of Sassari.
The University Library in Piazza Fiume hosted an exhibition and a study meeting entitled “ From rescue to care. The quarantine in Sassari through images ”.
Images, documents and photos (taken by Antonio Mannu between March 2020 and May 2021) and then the objects that have become sadly familiar: from the first DIY masks, to the complete suit for those who work in intensive care. It will be open until October 14th .
The initiative is carried out by the Center for Anthropological, Paleopathological, Historical Studies of Sardinia and of the peoples of the Mediterranean, which belongs to the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Sassari.
The conference instead took stock of what emerged thanks also to a questionnaire distributed in the first grades of the Sassari high schools.
"Retracing what happened makes us understand how we got to today where there is no longer any obligation to wear masks, except in hospitals" underlined Andrea Montella , from the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the Sassari university.
The two professors of Psychology Manuela Zambianchi (University of Bologna) and Arcangelo Uccula (University of Sassari) studied the effects of the lockdown: "It was experienced critically by those who already had vulnerabilities, while in families where there was a communication and good cohesion, the 15-year-olds showed confidence in the future. A distinction was also found: girls generally showed more anxiety and sadness than boys ”.
