“Bottom line is, most of those people in Italy wouldn’t be dead no if there was no chinavirus.”
Yep, that’s the EASY way to tell the impact. How many people died in Italy a year ago in March? How many people died (and will die) this year, in Italy, in March?
Compare the 2 numbers and you’ve pretty got the effect from Coronavirus. I don’t know of comparisons like that, but the Wuhan-type stories (funerals and crematoriums swamped, etc.) tells me that a lot of people are dying there of Coronavirus. Also, the newspaper video of the obits going from 1.5 pages to 10 pages in the one city kind of hinted at a slight problem, too.
Italy ping.
Could be worse. Italy could have been reporting death tolls using fractional numbers for COVID-19.