Italy mortality will drop once their virus gets under control and the very vulnerable die off.
Iran is a useless comparison. The people lick statues and the government shot 1500 unarmed demonstrators and buried them in a mass grave. The more people die there, the happier they are.
You’re unfortunately correct. Using Iran as an indicator for pretty much anything is foolish.
I think Italy has a lot of illiterate migrants. A fertile breeding ground for spreading this sort of thing.
It will be instructive to see how it progresses in CA with its huge population of illiterate illegals that already has a high proportion of communicable diseases.