TABLE 1.

Items ad hoc developed to assess the attribution of culpability for the severity of COVID‐19 restriction measures to older (vs. younger) people

The severity of the measures that the Italian government has adopted since October 2020 to contain the pandemic was caused by :
The need to protect the health of the older people above all.
The need to protect the health of the frail people, especially the elderly.
The superficial way in which the young people have continued to behave in the last period.
The superficial way in which the young people spent the summer (clubs, friends, travel).