Italy

Lucca, I had the same thoughts, in Italy the elderly often live with their families, it’s a custom , so the families are going about their normal day , bringing home the virus to their elderly parents, that’s why there’s so many deaths amongst the elderly ,

I have said a few times on other threads, I’m sure it’s something to do with the way the Italians meet and greet each other . Lots of touching , hugging and kissing .

I think one of the reasons is that they didn’t go into total lockdown sufficiently early enough.

China after a shaky (in denial) start then took on board the advice from WHO and went into total lockdown, and made sure people kept to the rules. SK tested everything in sight and controlled it’s population (as you’d expect) by technology.

The west with its liberal tradition is going at it half cock so it will always be up against it unless the penny drops with its population and they begin to do as they are told.

I just read one theory by Oxford university researchers that Italy has something like 23% of population is elderly, also younger generation mixes more with older generation.
It is truly horrific what is happening there, my friend tells me she is now frankly terrified and no sign of it slowing down, coffins being transported to other areas as crematoria can’t cope in one town. This is why I get completely furious with the attitude here of oh what a fuss, very often by elderly people. Rant over. Sun is shining.