Mastrangelo: Answers to Italy’s Complex Coronavirus Question

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First, this is an article from Breitbart. We're dealing with a source that is undeniably right wing, generally pro-Trump, and certainly not socialist or communist. If you're making that accusation, you're just clowning yourself.

Now, lets look at the material itself.

"“We think Italy may be the most comparable area to the United States at this point,” Vice President Mike Pence told reporters on Wednesday. As Italy’s coronavirus death toll continues to grow many are asking: Why did the virus that originated in Wuhan, China, strike Italy so hard? And why do our leaders think we may become like Italy?"

[Are y'all going to hate on Pence now?]

"When the coronavirus was initially discovered in Italy, many of the nation’s policymakers were skeptical, despite being warned that an epidemic was looming.

“How many people can’t go to work now because of an old man who’s 88 years old, who might have died of the flu?” proclaimed Chamber of Deputies member Vittorio Sgarbi in front of the Italian Parliament in late February, before repeatedly shouting, “This is fiction!”"

[does any of this sound remotely familiar?]

"The Italian government began implementing partial solutions by quarantining specific areas"

[how about this?]

"This move, however, had backfired, as it sparked a mass exodus among Italians native to the south who were temporarily living up north."

New Yorkers Fleeing to Florida To avoid Coronavirus

[or this?]

"Days later, on March 9, the Italian government then applied the same lockdown to the entire country. But some might argue that at that point, it was too late. The damage had already been done.

The Italian government should have locked down the entire nation, rather than initially implement partial solutions, which only facilitated the further spread of the disease throughout Italy."

[...and the inevitable conclusion.]

"Among those occupying ICU beds, 12 percent are between the ages of 19 and 50, about 52 percent are between the ages of 51 and 70, and the remainder are over 70. Therefore, roughly 64 percent of coronavirus patients are reportedly under the age of 70.

And the average age of coronavirus patients keeps dropping, as one Italian nurse noted, “the average age has dropped, around 55, 60 years old — 30-year-old males also come in on an oxygen crisis,” reported Il Giornale."

[but it's the flu, brah!]

"The hospital system in northern Italy is one the finest in the country and in Europe"

[but our superior medical system will save us!]

"Thus, we should examine other countries, and not disregard their hardships — because if we don’t prepare and the virus hits us hard, then the added insult to injury will be that we should have known better."

[Yep.]