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Indeed. Italy has among the highest rates of working adults living with their parents in the world for one.
by barry-cotter 7y ago
Indeed. Italy has among the highest rates of working adults living with their parents in the world for one.
- why-oh-why 7y agoAnd South Korea has the highest rate of soju drinkers. If you’re gonna pull a statistic out of a shadowy place, at least explain its link to the question. (For the record South Koreans drink twice as much alcohol as Italians) https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/msb_gsr_2014_3.pdf https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alco...
- barry-cotter 7y agoPeople were going to work in Italy in non-essential industries until recently. Those workers went home to their aged parents. Countries with lower rates of working aged adults living with the elderly are likely to have higher infection rates of a particularly vulnerable age group than those where such living situations are less common.
- Reason077 7y agoThat’s a very good point. There must be multiple social and environmental factors that have contributed to Italy being hit so hard (age of population, high rates of smoking and high levels of air pollution have also been suggested), but that could well be one of them.