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How does Germany keep the death count lower from corona than Italy?

@e4e5f4exf4nicht
Why would you accuse someone for being a Nazi, simple because they have a lot of 8 as their user name? You were being very rude.

Also you are mistaken about the meaning of 8 in Chinese culture.
It is considered a lucky number, and multiple of 8's is just better. They don't associate 88 with bye bye, but they associate it with double happiness.
And it is quite common to see the numbers 88888888 in shops, advertisement and online usernames in China.

Perhaps because you are German?, and there is a lot of focus about anything associated with the ww2, but that doesn't mean other countries/people associate 88 with H.H, or 18 =A.H
I am Danish, and I don't think like that, I don't know where 8*8 user is from, maybe it's just a easy name to remember, maybe 7*7 was taken.
Either way, you shouldn't insult people, like you did in #22.

✠✠✠✠✠✠✠✠
What do you think this means?
Together with 88888888 ?
Normally I am polite. I even asked him to give us the interpretation, showing, that in other countries exist different meanings for 88 than in Germany.
But the worldwide growing of Nationalism should everybody alert.
Niemals wieder Nationalsozialismus.
88
bā bā
(Internet slang) bye-bye (alternative for 拜拜 (bái bái))

They don't associate...
Of course they do.
@e4e5f4exf4nicht I was wondering where you get the ✠✠✠✠✠✠✠✠ from? (it's from the profile page), I understand your point now.

I don't know about internet slang, but bā bā sounds similar to fā fā, meaning double happiness. I never heard my friends from China using bā bā instead of bái bái.
But as I said, I don't know about internet slang.

Have a nice day.
The number 8 is considered lucky because spoken , it is "fa ", which sounds very much like the word for "wealth".."fortune" and similar.
Italy median age...45.5yrs

Germany median age...45.7yrs
As at April 6th 2020...

Italy population...60,482,328
Germany population...83,721,462

%over 65yrs
Italy...22
Germany...21

This gives us 4,292,995 more over 65's in Germany than in Italy.
Meanwhile we have to ask why Germany keeps the death count smaller than the USA.
Maybe Chancellor Merkel respects science and virologists ...
If you compare her and President Trump and his zigzaging you will find reasons enough.

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