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Because Italy economy is driven by tourism, which means that it cannot ban flight from china (or other places). Hence the virus has a chance to migrate to diff

Because Italy economy is driven by tourism, which means that it cannot ban flight from china (or other places). Hence the virus has a chance to migrate to different locations. Also, tourists, tend to travel (a lot) within the country, which means that the virus rapidly migrates inside the country. And, it also cannot mandate complete public shutdown, which gave the virus a chance to start a community spread. Once a community spreads starts, this is effectively a denial of service attack on the health care system, and this is what happening now.

detaro 7y ago
Italy has the largest shutdown areas of all of Europe, and did so quite quickly after cases were detected?
- eveningcoffee 7y ago
  My doctor explained to me that it is not possible to shutdown Italy by asking nice. They closed the schools, people went to hang around the down.
dotcoma 7y ago
Actually, Italy banned direct flights from China more than a month ago, well before the outbreak, and took harsh criticism from China. https://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/italy-israel-ban-flights-china/ https://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/italy-israel-ban-f...
- netsharc 7y ago
  Didn't China ban their tourist groups from departing? But that happened a while after the outbreak became well known, to speculate an answer to the Ask HN question, maybe there was a tourist group from Wuhan that got many Italians infected. A German blogger (fefe) is also asking if the Chinese "sweatshops" in Italy might have something to do with it (article about these textile factories: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/02/italys-biggest-chinese-community-clashes-with-police-near-florence https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/02/italys-biggest... )
  - dotcoma 7y ago
    As far as I know, China stopped flights only from the Wuhan and the other main cities that were affected; Italy stopped all flights from China. Did the problem originate from Chinese tourists in Italy? Two cases in Rome, as far as I know, about a month ago; both were treated and have recovered. There are no major problems in the city of Prato; also, as far as I know, there are no large Chinese communities in the areas where things are really bad.

detaro 7y ago

Italy has the largest shutdown areas of all of Europe, and did so quite quickly after cases were detected?

eveningcoffee 7y ago
My doctor explained to me that it is not possible to shutdown Italy by asking nice. They closed the schools, people went to hang around the down.

dotcoma 7y ago

Actually, Italy banned direct flights from China more than a month ago, well before the outbreak, and took harsh criticism from China. https://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/italy-israel-ban-flights-china/ https://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/italy-israel-ban-f...

netsharc 7y ago
Didn't China ban their tourist groups from departing? But that happened a while after the outbreak became well known, to speculate an answer to the Ask HN question, maybe there was a tourist group from Wuhan that got many Italians infected. A German blogger (fefe) is also asking if the Chinese "sweatshops" in Italy might have something to do with it (article about these textile factories: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/02/italys-biggest-chinese-community-clashes-with-police-near-florence https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/02/italys-biggest... )
- dotcoma 7y ago
  As far as I know, China stopped flights only from the Wuhan and the other main cities that were affected; Italy stopped all flights from China. Did the problem originate from Chinese tourists in Italy? Two cases in Rome, as far as I know, about a month ago; both were treated and have recovered. There are no major problems in the city of Prato; also, as far as I know, there are no large Chinese communities in the areas where things are really bad.