The way Germany is still allowing these music festivals (and football matches) to continue is what a 9-year old would do, to be honest, not the other way around. Granted, they're not alone in this, it seems like France has followed the same path. And why are you focusing your message only on Italy? Switzerland has adopted very similar measures (again, for very good reasons).

Italy may be overreacting, and at a huge cost to its economy. Yet, its better to overreact to things like this, than underreact. If anything, your country is the 9year old, not Italy.

Italy is if anything suffering from initially underreacting; they let the problem get far too large. At this point they din't have much choice; they've got a very serious problem.

When - pretty soon - intensive care units in most countries will be overwhelmed, and millions of (mostly elderly, granted) people will be left struggling for their life in their homes, we'll see who is acting like a 9yo.

I'm not expecting you to comply, I'm just stating what the risk is that those measures are trying to contain, and hoping this will help some readers understand.

By the way, given the mathematics of exponential virus spread and pretty much fixed number of ICUs per country, I also think that that scenario is pretty much a certainty at this point - but we can still lower the number of people who will be left without care by slowing down the contagion, and thus making the peak lower.

I reproduced a chart I saw which explains this better: https://imgur.com/vtaqIrz

No need to be rude towards the organizers of your music festival.

Well your action will likely make the virus spreading faster which may cause someone to be killed.

So it's OK to make even more people die? I'm sorry but Italy is not over-reacting, prevention is fundamental in an outbreak. Btw, I'm also from Italy, and I'm happy that all the concert/events that I had to go in February/March are cancelled, health first.

I am not paying a visit to my elderly relatives. Nor do I work in healthcare nor elderlycare. So the risk of me infecting a person from a risk-group is pretty non-existant. If someone in such a group is visiting a music festival, that is the risk they are taking. Time will tell how much the overreacting will cost italys economy. It looks like it is going to be pretty bad. Tourism alone is going to cost big figure numbers.

Even if your life is dominated entirely by self-interest, and the interests of the rest of the population isn't important to you, don't you have any elderly relatives? Or friends with pre-existing conditions?

Speaking only for myself, I have elderly in-laws who I'd rather stick around, a wife with asthma and I know well two people on immunosuppressants. So I'm not taking this lightly at all.

I am not paying a visit to my elderly eelatives in the upcoming weeks and maybe months. So much I have already stated elsewhere. HOWEVER, the original question was how much people are concerned regarding this. And I stand with what I've said, I am not concerened about Coronavirus killing me. And I think some western countries, like italy, are overreacting.

Now that is just an amazingly callous comment.

Thanks for your comment. I learnt a new word!