[Dagnabitt]

Italy has it bad. Or more precisely, the Italian elderly have it bad. The Average age of fatal cases is 80.3. And fatalities drop off significantly further down the age table. No one under 30 has died. Two under 40 have died. Both had significant prior conditions.

https://www.thelocal.it/20200311/coronavirus-what-do-we-know-about-the-victims-in-italy

[Balding_Eagle]

Contrary to your headline it’s very sick people in NORTHERN Italy, with a high population of Chinese that have it bad.

“Almost all patients were already suffering from serious health problems, including cancer, when the coronavirus infection was detected,”

[Freee-dame]

So we are destroying our economy, ruining long planned events for millions, taking our children out of school, closing health and recreation facilities and crushing small business owners and workers, etc because some elderly people in a country where smoking is rampant and where many Chinese workers returned at the end of January from visiting China for the Chinese New Year are dying from a new virus. And in a country ill-prepared for so many sick people to need respirators. None of these conditions apply to the USA in general.

.COVID-19 is either a bioweapon about to explode or an evil plot to destroy our country. To quote Rahm Emmanuel: Never let a crisis go to waste.

. Are we trying to stop our economy and freedoms until no one dies? The average number of co-morbities in the people who died in Italy is 2.7.

[TheRake]

A couple of things regarding Italy. The Chinese population has exploded to over 320,000 in the last ten years, which means a lot of travel between the two countries. Also, the average life span in Italy, about 83, is far greater than ours at about 79. So more people over 80 to succumb to the virus?