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See earlier comments up thread about chinese slavery illegally brought in to Italy to work in clothing manufacture.
I can’t see any citation on that, what @M_V I think want to know what was the official reason to how it spread so fast without any prejudice clouding it (like the claim that kissing cheek and such is one of the reason).
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Ed, I don’t think that’s yet known.
There a good article from Saturday that covers how it gets through the control measures quite well: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/coronavirus-a-disease-that-thrives-on-human-error?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A series of small mistakes, not quarantining the right people at the right time causing widespread infection. Not tracking people from infected areas so having infected people walking about for days infecting others before being identified. Nothing about affectionate greetings as that’s a bit of a red herring.
If you're infected you’ll likely have the infection on your hands so just shaking hands and the other person touching their eyes will do it. Imagine all those people at a funeral holding the hands of the daughter before wiping away a tear.
Ramsaye
See earlier comments up thread about chinese slavery illegally brought in to Italy to work in clothing manufacture.
Reading in the Italian press, during the beginning of people getting ill, looks like the first few victims were old and died of complications from their ailments (ailments not illnesses was used) and that one person who died was old and receiving chemotherapy so other receiving chemotherapy would be falling ill too. At that point I started skipping reading the articles as it felt more like hype.
Then the idea of an area being closed yet still has normal internal flights leaving the airports seems odd to me.