[calenel]

It didn’t come on China’s road. It came on airplanes.

[Zhang Fei]

[It didn’t come on China’s road. It came on airplanes.]

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What’s interesting is that at 5m, the US has 16x Italy’s 300,000-strong ethnic Chinese population:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Americans#Population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Italy

And yet stateside coronavirus infections remain a fraction of Italy’s, even though the US’s (presumably) Chinese-American Patient Zero arrived in the US on January 19, at around the same time as Italy’s German Patient Zero (of indeterminate ethnicity) showed up in Northern Italy:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-09/how-coronavirus-spread-from-patient-zero-in-seattle
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-scientists/coronavirus-may-have-reached-italy-from-germany-scientists-say-idUSKBN20Y35B

And that remains the case even in New York City, which has 600,000 ethnic Chinese in its 300 sq miles. That’s double the ethnic Chinese in all of Italy 116,000 sq miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_in_New_York_City