Posted on 03/15/2020 9:45:42 AM PDT by Riflema
I think a lot of people are wondering why Italy is so hard hit.
This real story does not fit the media narrative, so it is not getting reported by the MSM.
Their sense of hygiene is different from ours.
Yes, but how?
I think a vaccine will take a long time.
We need to wait for warmer weather for the virus to get dissipated.
Also even among the young that’s a 0.2% mortality rate - 1 out of every 500 infected will die
I think it depends on where in Italy - the north is very clean, while the boot and sicily are dirty
Our strength is in our diversity as RATs claim. Diversity in our viruses.
Spooky.
Nostradamus also predicted that Alexander the Great would die in his 30s
This isn’t about single payer or not. the problem is the large numbers all at the same time.
Yeah, but. of course, it’s all Trump’s fault. /s
This is not about diversity. If they had thousands of people of Chinese origin but QUARANTINED THEM AFTER COMING BACK FROM WUHAN, this wouldn’t have happened.
Holy cow...makes perfect sense if true.
Correct. No time to work out the details, so we are stuck with what we have. Hopefully the economy can make it through a big burp.
>>the dead are mostly old “white” folks<<
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What about the Afro-Italians?
i posted this last week- even the Italian ambassador admits chinese in italy caused the problem:
northern italy evidently has a ton of chinese who are in the leather/textile industry and the italian ambassador to ireland states they believe it came from china via the textile industry:
“He added: “We should not over dramatise, when we get over dramatic we risk making mistakes and this is simply silly because we are in a good framework. We are in a country well equipped in terms of public health. We are in the European Union, and we are responsible for each other. It is a serious situation but we don’t want to transform it in to a drama when it is not a drama.”
He said northern Italy has close connections with China due to strong links in the textile trade.”
https://www.rte.ie/news/post/103346782/
Have the Italians admitted that they don’t even intend to take care of the elderly, or have they not?
Which single payer healthcare system in world history has not resulted in reduced capacity?
Gee, all the while I thought this was going to be traced back to Marco Polo.
They partnered up with China for their “silk road” construction which brought in a bunch of them there. In fact Rush spent a segment of his show time on this. That along with other with investments and partnerships in manufacturing
I can think of several reasons why this has hit Italy particularity hard. First, they were hit with a large number of cases at once. It can be assumed that many Chinese traveled home for the lunar new year and brought the virus back with them to Italy. So instead of starting of with a few dozen cases Italy started off with hundreds, maybe thousands of imported cases from China. This cause the virus to get a strong foothold in the country before the authorities had a chance to ramp up their response. News reports indicate that many hospitals are overwhelmed with the staff getting sick as well. A high initial infection count would cause that.
Next the average age in Italy is older than many countries, the disease affects the elderly more than others further straining the medical system.
Finally, the nature of the fashion industry itself may be to blame. Producing, textiles and turning them into clothes involves creating a lot of airborne fibers. Sufficient fibers can cause respiratory problems. Growing up I had a very good friend who’s dad owned a furniture repair shop. He really specialized in recovering furniture. He had to give it up in his late fifties because the fibers had compromised his lungs. I wonder if this could have an effect as well.
Italy also has the oldest population in Europe. Few births and no younger workers for years, which is why they import their workforce. I think they actually had negative population growth a couple of years ago - meaning deaths outnumber births.
the Chinese mafia
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