Amici,
First, the latter Italian stats, just for the record:
An excerpt:
Italy has a tight Chinese connection.... From the South
China Morning Post, “The Chinese began migrating to Italy about 30 years
ago but numbers have swelled in the past decade, bringing the total population
to about 300,000.” A travel
website shows 9 inexpensive flight options between China and Italy.
About Quarantine per se, see also:
An excerpt:
Quarantine only works early, before the virus escapes. The University
of Southampton has found that the Chinese delay in quarantining
Wuhan led to massive increases in the worldwide spread of Wuhan flu. Had they
acted even one week earlier, the epidemic would have been reduced by two-thirds.
Three weeks earlier, when it became clear that something bad was going on, the
worldwide reduction would have been 95%, allowing other areas of quarantine to
be beneficial. Once you enter that vertical phase, broad quarantine doesn't
work. Even if every person with symptoms was locked up, there would still be
three or four others out there with the virus, spreading the infection. It
can't be stopped. It's "in the wild."
This is a long article, but worth it.
Here's the University of Southampton link: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/03/covid-19-china.page
But whatever about all that, France has an immediate SARS CoVid-19 problem, and it might not be what you would think.
An excerpt:
The heavily
migrant-populated Seine-Saint-Denis area is proving to be a tough area for
police to enforce the nationwide anti-coronavirus quarantine ordered by French
president Emmanuel Macron, with police officers admitting that they are
overwhelmed.
A man
guarding a local pharmacy told newspaper Le Temps that many of the residents do
not even believe the virus is a threat to them at all
“They do
not understand anything. Some even say that this virus is a fable of whites to
force them to desert the street,” the man said.
Other areas
of Seine-Saint-Denis also saw people gathering, including a local shopping
centre where a number of minority teenagers chatted with each other, some
wearing masks, others not.
Police say
that enforcing the law in the area is “impossible” and that if they try to
impose the 135 euro fines they would not be able to contain the potential
backlash, and that the risk of a crowd forming would only increase the chances
of spreading the coronavirus.
“We are not
going to give up. But we also know where these people live and how they live.
Strict containment, for them, is just impossible,” an officer explained.
On
Wednesday it was reported that 10 per cent of all the fines for breaking the
quarantine in France were given in Seine-Saint-Denis, per Fabienne
Klein-Donati, the public prosecutor of Bobigny.
The
quarantine measures were also largely ignored by residents in the highly
migrant-populated 18th arrondissement in the north of Paris, with crowds of
people walking around the area despite police orders to stay in their homes.
The
coronavirus outbreak has also led to pharmacies becoming targets for burglars,
as in the city of Colombes just outside of Paris, where a man from
Seine-Saint-Denis was arrested for stealing medical face masks and hand
sanitiser.
In
Seine-et-Marne, meanwhile, drug dealers donned masks and other medical gear and
were seen strolling along the streets of the Almont district of Melun, even
creating a video for social media advertising that they were still selling
drugs, regardless of the quarantine and coronavirus outbreak.
So, you know, it
occurs to me that all that talk about the Muslims inundating Europe and
destroying it, might turn out to be only too true, but not exactly in
the fashion so many have surmised.
An Préachan
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