Also Cinzia Facchini, president of Fano-based company Fimal, has answered to our questions…
Cinzia Facchini
president Fimal (Fano, Pesaro Urbino)
www.fimalsrl.it
- How are you reacting to this emergency?
“It is very difficoult to answer such a question.I think the truth is that in our high-tech society, no one would have ever tought to deal with such a disease. However differently to any other pandemy, “Covid-19” has been associated with, this one can’t be located in a precise socio-cultural paradigm, but is rapidly overcoming borders, nations and continents. It was very easy, at the beginning, to undervalue the phenomenon, and we did, such as everyone else, but in a matter of days it came clear we had to stop to clean, sanitize, and insure the safety of very single one of us. With our production being shut down, we find ourselfs in a weird and silent enviroment and we started thinking. How can we react? How can we fight back? How can we stem the impact on our circle? clients, providers….
Most of all we took this time, to question ourselves, on how we could adapt and improve once this emergercy will be over”.
- What do you think is changing or will change radically?
“I’d say everything, nothing will stay as it was before. The disease will be followed by a wide economic-politic crisis that will shake our concepts of needings, strategies and even borders.
In this early phase we’re already facing and true deflagration of European union and changes for what concernes factories will come soon and will be huge. We’re already trying to find new ways to deal with everything outside of our country (web marketing? Remote meetings? Remote demonstrations?). Our greatest concern is how could we not being kept apart, by the moment we don’t produce any basic necessities. We can’t answer that right now, but we’re trying to find a solution everyday…”
- What should the authorities and all of us do?
“Maybe we should match our method with the same one doctors, and health experts are using: phased in overtime and mitigate the peak.
Phase in overtime would be possible due to financial instruments and only that. Tapping into our own financial strenght, having access to credit, savings and debts in order to tone down the damage done by inactivity.
Mitigate the peak, could be done even by working overtime to recover all the time we’ve lost due to mandatory shut down. Working on august, during summer holidays, might be the answer.
The question remains, how could we stimulate the recovery? How could generate new orders? How could we make the economy’s wheel spin again?
One good side of this otherwise terrible situation has emerged, and, as always, i like to see the glass half full. We are finally fighting all together across the whole country. We’re rediscovering that sense of patriotism, and proudness of being italian that we lost for a long time. We have confidence in our means like never before, and we’re sure we can fight back and turn the situation around to our advantage.
United in the same flag, our voices will shout sincerely: we can do it, everything will be fine, we will drag ourselves out of this situation too! And as always something so brave, yet so simple, is being followed all around the world”.
