Italy Locks Down Much of the Country's North Over the Coronavirus

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ROME — Italy’s government early Sunday took the extraordinary step of locking down much of the country’s north, restricting movement for about a quarter of the Italian population in regions that serve as the country’s economic engine.

The move represents the most sweeping effort outside China to stop the spread of the coronavirus, and is tantamount to sacrificing the Italian economy in the short term to save it from the ravages of the virus in the long term.

By taking such tough measures, Italy, which is suffering the worst outbreak in Europe, sent a signal that restrictive clampdowns at odds with some of the core values of Western democracies may be necessary to contain and defeat the virus.

“We are facing an emergency,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in announcing the government decree in a news conference after 2 a.m. “A national emergency.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-locks-down-much-of-the-countrys-north-over-the-coronavirus/ar-BB10SFW3?li=BBnb7Kz

[Sherman A1]

1. WOW

[LuvNewcastle]

2. That's scary as hell.

Looks like governments are having a hell of a time deciding how to proceed. I shudder to think how we'll deal with it in the U.S. It's much harder to block contact between regions over here. We're just too big.

[uponit7771]

4. What's sad is their government wasn't withholding test from them like ours is and things ...

... started to snowball

This is bad seeing it only took 5 weeks for Italy to quarantine 25% of its population.

[uponit7771]

3. It took 5 weeks for Italy to quarantine 25% of its population starting from 2 cases of CV19