Posted on 03/15/2020 9:45:42 AM PDT by Riflema
Hindsight is awesome!
The Italian death rate is high because Italy has the oldest population in the world and they smoke cigarettes at a 50% higher rate than Americans. Lots of old people with respiratory issues.
Once upon a time, Italy had a high smoking rate. I can remember being there in the ‘90s and early ‘00s and there seemed to be way more smokers per capita than here in the U.S. The cohort of elderly people now in the 70-90 range undoubtedly includes a large number of smokers and former smokers. If your respiratory system is already impaired due to decades of smoking, and then you get a respiratory virus like this, well, you’re likely going to have a problem.
I posted something real this morning and the mods deleted it. I will be vindicated.
“is the most filthy place he has ever seen.” ...........Been there, not much worse than what I experienced in areas in Manhattan and the surrounding area. On the east coast of Italy it was clean in the areas I visited. The thing that got me the most was the train toilets. You didn’t flush them, it all dropped onto the tracks while moving. While sitting down it was like being a bombardier on a bombing run if you looked down. LOL!!
The median age in Italy is 46;The US, eg is 40. My guess is that southern Italy is also younger and also warmer
That’s true. I never thought of that....elderly and with COPD.
That was just an Internet rumor.
Some of the same reasons it was bad in China (imho). Population density, heavy smoking among the populace and a history of heavy air pollution all weakening respiratory immune response.
CC
“They stick a finger up one nostril and clear their noses out the other anywhere they happen to be.”
GROSS! I only do that when no one can see me.
I do too. Just not on the Sistine Chapel floor in a big crowd.
Much because Italy ranks #5 among 230 countries as regards the highest by median age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age
I wish I could find the post, companies that produced the vaccine were named and they mentioned that a smallish scale test was done in the USA in the state of Maryland only.
Rush explained this either late last week or this week.
Such course people.
Completely unlike other Asians groups who I have an affinity for.
These are “modern” people who squat over holes in the floor. But to many young Americans, we have many lessons to be taught by their “culture.”
I have that book and that is not in Koontz’s book.
That is from Sylvia Browne’s “End of Days: ...” novel.
Open Borders of Shengen may not stay that way for long. If this means the end of EU as a single entity, it not such a bad outcome.
There are very few of them, and mostly younger
They are taking care of the elderly. Ignore the media lies.
Lots. The UK, Poland etc.
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