About 13% of our population are over 65. Around 700k
Can somebody Ladybird this for me. Why has Italy been so badly affected?
I think it went through a few nursing homes
The whole world was skiing there for the mid-term.
It entered/infected the Health system so became a bit of a perpetual motion machine for want of a better phrase/anecdote.
Nobody is too sure but some theories
- thereās a lot of Chinese workers
- it was in Italy from mid January and quite significantly more so than originally feared. The number of fatalities a few weeks ago indicate that
- people (society at large and not the government necessary) didnāt take it seriously enough and early enough. A nation of huggers and kissers with that is a recipe for disaster
- they had an unlucky opening cluster of cases in a hospital and amongst the elderly
They initially refused to acknowledge they had it. One of the first patients to die from it was in and out 3 or 4 times before they tested him for it as they refused to believe it was possible he had it because he hadnāt been to China
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How long did it take them to close down travel etc?
Egypt is gone as well
To be fair to them, by the time they realised they had a problem it was already too late.
They closed it down from China early doors but the significant quarantines only started a couple of weeks ago when the place likely already has several hundred - couple of thousand cases I reckon.
How far away are we from it being too late do you reckon?
Is the Chinese worker thing grounded in fact?
Just sent a staff member home with flu-like symptomsā¦
Too late for what?
It canāt be stopped, but we arenāt too late to slow it significantly.
Itās largely out of our hands though. If itās running riot in Europe and the US weāve no hope
Would have been better if you could have sent them home without them
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Large Chinese population in the textiles industry.
As usual Iāve been given no procedure on how to proceed. It would appear her flu is more the ānormalā flu. She hasnāt been coughing or struggling to breathe so hopefully all is good.
There are 290k Chinese workers. Almost entirely in the Northern half of the country. No immigrants seem to go south.
Insignificant in the overall scheme of things. But obviously it only takes one or two
It spreads worse in opera houses
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