It is known that Mediterranean touch, as the Americans are learning to appreciate the “hugs” and that Asians, in contrast, are generally more remote. And if this wasn’t just a cliché ? And if these cultural traits were not innocuous in the context of a health crisis ? These ways of being in society, remote, or touch, can in a relative manner to allow us to understand the spread, more or less rapid, of the virus. To explain the curve of the contaminations in Italy, and the high number of deaths, sociologists of the country have focused on the structures of fam…