Posted on 03/15/2020 9:45:42 AM PDT by Riflema
As the impact of the Corona Virus (Covid-19) continues to grow, nowhere in Europe has been more affected than Italy, and in particular northern Italy.
With a complete lockdown announced by the Italian Government, everyday life for Italians has ground to a halt as the rise in cases of Wuhan-Flu continues.
This has raised the question of why Italy has suffered more than other countries to date?
AltNewsMedia has a theory as to what may lie behind this.
Many Italians in Northern Italy have sold their leather goods and textiles companies to China. Italy then allowed 100,000 Chinese workers from Wuhan and Wenzhou to move to Italy to work in these factories, with direct flights between Wuhan and Northern Italy. This continued post outbreak, so is it mere coincidence that Northern Italy is now Europe’s hotspot for Corona Virus?
The murky reality is that the EU turned a blind eye to vast numbers of illegal Chinese immigrants working in Italian factories. The ‘Open Borders’ EU will of course try to keep this under wraps, but reality is, the Chinese Mafia operate Italian textile factories with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants shipping ‘made in Italy’ goods into China and elsewhere.
Why didn’t the EU act to stop corrupt Italians taking backhanders from the Chinese mafia?
Why is Boris and our Scientific community still happy to allow Italian flights into the UK?
This is an area that logically should be front and centre of investigations into how the virus spread into Europe, but we suspect it will overlooked.
The whole scenario is a disaster for the EU and their open borders narrative, but as the 4th biggest economy in the EU this whole situation with Italy could accelerate the collapse of the whole EU project.
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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