I vividly remember the initial outbreak of ooga-booga Covid way back when, especially Italy.
Italy, because they had something like 30K imports from Wuhan working there, was rightly (possibly) afraid.
Their health system, doctors and politicians made the conscious decision to invoke “triage” because they perceived they couldn’t handle ooga booga Covid (need for respirators, etc.) they anticipated. What this “triage” entailed was the intentional to write off old people as gone - in favor of the youner. No support, put them in hallways and rooms on cots - in their street clothes to die. Do not say that didn’t happen - it did.
The outcome? Italy experienced a drastic death toll of people near 65-70 and over.....So many there were bodies and coffins piling up in funeral homes local establishments that couldn’t deal with it.
The benefit to Italy’s government? Reduced load on their senior pension system.
I can understand trying to save the young and arranging priorities, but is what THIS example of a 36 year old Italian on vacation disease danger-seeking what they really wanted?
Karma is a real bitch.
Italy has one of the oldest average age populations in the world. In addition, Milan has clothing factories that not only are owned by the Chinese but have many Chinese nationals working in them. What happened in Italy with Covid did not translate to anywhere else in the world but the fear mongers used Italy’s statistics to terrify.