“Italian Prime Minister Conte tightens coronavirus lockdown, orders the closure of all non-essential businesses”
the entire Italian economy, crushed.
They didn’t believe us when we pointed to China tanking their economy and quarantining more than the US population over a “mild illness”. What will be the excuse for Italy? That they were just a bunch of old people?
When will people get that it is not about who gets sick, it is about how many get sick and how many the healthcare system can handle.
“ the entire Italian economy, crushed.”
Regardless of the true nature of this virus and the illness it creates, when it becomes necessary for a government to put the knife in its own economy in response, that is when governments collapse...even entire societies. Trump may be forced into this, and if so he might as well write his own resignation along with it as the government can not survive the shutdown of the economy. When masses of people become destitute, and they will very quickly under those circumstances, then all normalcy and control of events is lost...and the government falls.