Some factors:
Older age infected in Italy which overwhelmed their hospitals.
More touchy, feely culture in italy which caused more rapid spread (and nonsensical political wokeness like the "Hug an Asian" campaign-lots of Chinese people working in the garment industry in fashionable northern Italy)
Fewer ventilators and icu beds in Italy which also contributed to their hospitals being overwhelmed
Lots of cigarette smokers in Italy but i don't know how that compares with Germany
Das Hunnenreich ist best Jungs.
Das weiss doch jeder.
It's a really simple answer. The young people don't want to live in Italy, because Italy can't offer them any jobs. So the young people leave italy and the old people remain.
Who is really vulnerable to corona? Exactly it's the old people.
more foreign people visit Italy for its sight seeing?. I'm sure people visit Germany too but not the millions that trample thru Italy on a regular basis.
I am more in wonder as to why India only has a few hundred cases confirmed. This is the latest count for India
Coronavirus cases in India climb to 724, death toll at 17. That is very suspicious to me coming from the 2nd most populated country on earth with the most widespread poverty of any society on the planet.
They just don't count them as Coronavirus bec they arent being tested?
bec the govt doesnt want to spend the money?
by all counts India should be right there with the rest of the infected ones with 80,000+ plus confirmed cases.
USA just passed the 100,000 marker.
@UrimaBot I never thought that you are able to think in such an idiotic way.
I live in Germany and I am working as a nurse. I think that the truth is, so many on this land are too proud to go and get checked, I know so many people they run around with sore coughs and just say that they have flu. They do not go and get themselves checked of corona. This one collegue of mine is the same he is sometimes coughing very hard that I worry of him, but he is saying it's random cold. I hear them say this everywhere. I think so many do the same. It can also be that they can never imagine that the sickness got them this time. Afraid of being quarantined is another reason; afraid of the consequences of this. They'd rather remain naive and continue to believe that it is not corona. I used to work in an hospital were they manupulate results just to prevent panic and not to release alarm. So now it means the patient only died from a lung infection and never say that it is from corona. It is a very sick state run by a sick city mayor. You can not imagine how sick I felt as I was working there, when everybody the most of the crew shut their mouths and the doctors are very corrupt. I have also wondered that until now in this particular state, they claim to have not a single corona case - my stomach says that the sickness is already in every place. I myself I recovered the infection and was quarantined 3 weeks because I insisted my doctor to check me, if I had not done it, I did not find out.
that could explain a lot of the numbers coming out of many countries. this is no time to be proud and become a dead "Covidiot".
all I know for sure right now is people all over need to go back to work. the virus wont matter to many anymore when they have no jobs and no money to feed themselves or their families and they have lost everything back to the govt insured banks. It has to be done with one way or the other.
TheKnighShifter I don't know about India but in Germany they are testing for Covid a lot more. There are plans to increase the number of test to 200k a day. That's why infections are detected much faster and thus the number of infected people rises, but that this is a good thing, because if you don't know that you're infected you are a threat to the people around you even if you're not that affected yourself.
That said, it's just foolish to stop living your life. I'm working everyday and I don't worry about covid at all.
The point is not the difference between Germany and Italy, but the difference between Germany and the rest of the world. German data are clearly and inexplicably lower than all the others, which suggests that they classify patients and coronavirus deaths differently
High time to cast them RUUNSTONES