It’s not the entire country of Italy, it is a region of Italy.
Rome still has relatively few cases, and while those numbers may increase a bit, I don’t see it totally overtaking it. It hasn’t happened in Beijing or Seoul, and if it were that bad, it would have happened by now.
Yes but we don't, as a society, have the discipline or the docility or respect for authority as the Chinese and Koreans do.
We are more like Italians and Iranians - proud, suspicious of authority, and full of nonchalance and swagger.
“It’s not the entire country of Italy, it is a region of Italy. Rome still has relatively few cases”
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The whole country is under lockdown. The nature of any pandemic is that it doesn’t start from nothing everwhere at the same time. The disease travels - if it was restricted to one place, we’d never have any disease anywhere.
They weren't saying "it's just the flu bro" in Beijing or Seoul. They took it deadly seriously. Everyone is in masks, there is mass testing. There are huge quarantines, people aren't going to work. Korea tests more people per day than the US has done in a month. Trump was right when he took action early, but you have to keep at it. Korea was a model we could follow, but it might be too late now.