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From FOX 5 (San Diego)
Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe's epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February, and the country still has one of the world’s highest official death tolls at over 35,000.
But after a strict nationwide, 10-week lockdown, vigilant tracing of new clusters and general acceptance of mask mandates and social distancing, Italy has become a model of virus containment. “Don’t they care about their health?” a mask-clad Patrizia Antonini asked about people in the United States as she walked with friends along the banks of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome. “They need to take our precautions. ... They need a real lockdown."
Much of the incredulity in Europe stems from the fact that America had the benefit of time, European experience and medical know-how to treat the virus that the continent itself didn’t have when the first COVID-19 patients started filling intensive care units.
More than four months into a sustained outbreak, the U.S. reached the 5 million mark, according to the running count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Health officials believe the actual number is perhaps 10 times higher, or closer to 50 million, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40% of all those who are infected have no symptoms.
“We Italians always saw America as a model," said Massimo Franco, a columnist with daily Corriere della Sera. “But with this virus we've discovered a country that is very fragile, with bad infrastructure and a public health system that is nonexistent."
COMMENT:-
Europeans are worried about the effects of COVID-19 on Americans. Mr. Trump (in paraphrase) says "Send the non-economically productive little buggers off into crowded conditions without adequate safeguards. Who cares if a couple of kids die - what's REALLY important is getting profits back up to where I and the top 10% of the American socioeconomic pyramid want them to be.".
PS - <SARC>[If I had seen this anyplace other than FOX News, I'd be 100% certain that it was nothing but a bunch of lies spread by the Clinton/Obama conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2016 election. Now I'm only 96.7% certain, but I'll wait until Mr. Trump tells me what **T*H*E** **T*R*U*T*H** is</SARC>[.
U.S. tops 5 million confirmed virus cases, to Europe’s alarm
Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe's epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February, and the country still has one of the world’s highest official death tolls at over 35,000.
But after a strict nationwide, 10-week lockdown, vigilant tracing of new clusters and general acceptance of mask mandates and social distancing, Italy has become a model of virus containment. “Don’t they care about their health?” a mask-clad Patrizia Antonini asked about people in the United States as she walked with friends along the banks of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome. “They need to take our precautions. ... They need a real lockdown."
Much of the incredulity in Europe stems from the fact that America had the benefit of time, European experience and medical know-how to treat the virus that the continent itself didn’t have when the first COVID-19 patients started filling intensive care units.
More than four months into a sustained outbreak, the U.S. reached the 5 million mark, according to the running count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Health officials believe the actual number is perhaps 10 times higher, or closer to 50 million, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40% of all those who are infected have no symptoms.
“We Italians always saw America as a model," said Massimo Franco, a columnist with daily Corriere della Sera. “But with this virus we've discovered a country that is very fragile, with bad infrastructure and a public health system that is nonexistent."
COMMENT:-
Europeans are worried about the effects of COVID-19 on Americans. Mr. Trump (in paraphrase) says "Send the non-economically productive little buggers off into crowded conditions without adequate safeguards. Who cares if a couple of kids die - what's REALLY important is getting profits back up to where I and the top 10% of the American socioeconomic pyramid want them to be.".
PS - <SARC>[If I had seen this anyplace other than FOX News, I'd be 100% certain that it was nothing but a bunch of lies spread by the Clinton/Obama conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2016 election. Now I'm only 96.7% certain, but I'll wait until Mr. Trump tells me what **T*H*E** **T*R*U*T*H** is</SARC>[.
