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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:16PM (#22527991)
> what happened in Italy that they were hit so disproportionately hard relative to other countries?

Short answer: we don't know.

My hypothesis: Italy was the first G7 nation to join China's Belt & Road Initiative [1]. Its populist government also bet heavily on integration with Russia and China. That caused it, alongside Germany, to get hit early. Its sclerotic state then let it fester.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative#Italy

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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by simion314 on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:27PM (#22528126)
I do not understand what Russia has to do with this? If you claim that there are more people traveling between China and Italy because some commercial interests why not say that? I have no idea about such people traveling but from what I see as an outsider a lot of US business people are traveling to China and Taiwan too.
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