Corona Virus Member Discussion

[SBR]

Originally Posted by StealthBird

Why has Italy been hit so hard? While at first this sounded like Fake News, this is actually real.

In 2013, Italy signed an agreement with China called the "Belt And Road Initiative", also known as the 'Silk Road". Because of Italy's poor economy and high unemployment, they agreed to have Chinese workers build roads in Italy, using financing from Chinese banks, that would benefit Chinese trade routes. This move was widely criticized by members of the G-7 because it was another move by China in their ultimate goal for world domination. But because Italy was in the midst of an economic crisis, they signed on.

Chinese workers, mostly from Wuhan, made daily flights to and from Italy with many relocating their families in the process. When the first case of COVID-19 broke out in January 2020, the U.S. and Italy announced travel restrictions on China.

The CDC and WHO proposed isolating Chinese people coming from the epicenter in Italy. The Italian government balked at the idea because singling out travelers from China would be construed as racist.

On February 1st, Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence, Italy, initiated a ‘Hug a Chinese’ campaign on Twitter. "We follow the directions of the health authorities and we use caution, but no psychological terrorism," Mayor Dario Nardella said in a tweet announcing the initiative while blasting those he said "could not wait to use this excuse to hate and insult."

So videos were taken of happy Italians hugging Chinese people on the streets of Florence, Milan, and other cities.

Obviously, this was a bad call by the mayor of Florence, but this act, along with the fact that Italy has the oldest population in Europe, and elders were not aware of the virus until it was too late, is why Italy has the greatest number of COVID-19 cases, and the highest death toll per capita.

So the gist is that being PC with open borders sealed their fate. I know there's a lesson to be learned there but it will probably fall on deaf ears with the fine folks at DC. Stay safe everyone.

[Lee Stewart]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

You have to see the entire picture

I posted that yesterday at 9:17 AM. Now 6:10 AM

[Lee Stewart]

[Tabu2]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

This is a horrendous drug with horrendous side effects!!

[markinnaples]

YouTube/TED

When Bill Gates was asked this week what the world should do to stop another pandemic, he pointed to a 2015 talk where he described just that.

Gates then said that the world needs to invest in better health systems, increase international collaboration, keep trained medical staff in reserve, and invest in vaccine research.

He said failing to do that, particularly for a virus with characteristics like the new coronavirus, could cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars.

His comments seem prescient with the coronavirus now in 160 countries, hammering the global economy, and responsible more in excess of 9,000 deaths.

Gates said in 2015 that the world was not prepared for an epidemic, and urged: "We need to get going. Because time is not on our side."

Since then the US instead cut some of its virus programs.

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

This week, as the coronavirus pandemic worsened, Bill Gates pointed to a 2015 TED talk he gave when people asked him what the world should do now to stop anything similar happening again.

https://news.yahoo.com/heres-bill-ga...DGPjk0Eo3KDSYQ

[Lee Stewart]

ROME, March 22 (Reuters) - The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 651 to 5,476, officials said on Sunday, an increase of 13.5% but down on Saturday's figure when some 793 people died.

The total number of cases in Italy rose to 59,138 from a previous 53,578, an increase of 10.4%, the Civil Protection Agency said -- the lowest rise in percentage terms since the contagion came to light on Feb. 21.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...cid=spartandhp

[Mr70]

This is what it's been like around Northern Illinois this week.

[70 copo]

Russians going to Italy:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oll-rises.html

[Lee Stewart]

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