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Complete Corona lock down of Milano and greater areas in “red zone”

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Huge Parts of Italy are locked down due to the Corona outbreak in a new "red zone". Nobody is allowed to enter or leave without special reason. Source: https://www.open.online/2020/03/07/coronavirus-ultime-notizie-7-marzo/

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Finally. Thank you Italy.

But it should have happened 2 weeks ago or even before that, there was no reason to wait.

Now the wait has created more outbreaks elsewhere.

Very easy to say. Very difficult to implement. Save human life without destroying (an already bad) economy in between. Especially in Italy a country full of strong opinions.

The dead people do not give a fuck about the economy.

Surely the earlier you do it the least impact there is on the economy. Stoping the movement of people for a month is better than being in limbo for a month and still ending up with a quarantine at the end anyway

I find it also logical conclusion. I think it was pretty clear from the beginning in what direction it will develop and what measures are actually working. It looks incredibly irresponsible to wait this long.

When the impact isn't as large yet, not enough people believe you when you say it is necessary.

We're going to see the same in Spain, from 50 to 500 plus cases in a week but still a very relaxed attitude. Spain ought to learn from China/Italy/S Korea and lock stuff down now.

It seems each country think it'll play out differently for some reason. I imagine in 7-10 days Spain will have 5k cases plus.

Same for Germany, the Netherlands and so on. But the US will be something else, I think.

I am an italian from a red zone. It seems like it has been left to the common sense of people. I have collegues who come from other red zones and they could come easily. I don't understand.

Bar, pubs etc will be closed.

Stores will be open like 8-18 and will be closed on weekends.

Honestly I don't understand how this is going to help: say that 100 people go to the store in a week.

- 10 Mon

- 10 Tue

- 10 Wed

- 10 Thu

- 10 Fri

- 25 Sat

- 25 Sun

Those 50 people that go on Sat/Sun will go during the week, resulting in

- Mon 20

- Tue 20

- Wed 20

- Thu 20

- Fri 20

- Sat 0

- Sun 0

How is this going to help?

“It’s just the flu bro!”

Overheard some boomers talking about it yesterday at a cafe. "The chances of getting it are miniscule, we should buy cheap airline tickets while we can!".

It is interesting that so thought hundreds of Estonians regardless of government strong recommendations to avoid areas in Northern Italy.

9 of them returned with the virus and at least two had public contacts before being detected regardless of mandated self quarantine.

To be honest this raises some questions about the actual spread in Italy. Common sense tells that it should be statistically small change to meet a person with the virus, something between around - 0.05 and 0.1 (calculated "on the napkin") but somehow they managed to get it.

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