And this is how it looks on the geographical card. All the deep green are locked down regions and all this regions belong to the strongest economical heart of Italy. Switzerland is just a jump away from all those regions which also has a lot of cross border workers here in the "Canton of Ticino" (
https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-ch/destinations/ticino/)
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The numbers here in Switzerland of new infections are just jumping up day by day. The problem whole Europe will face is not that we do not have any knowledge about the danger of the virus. The problem is how slow governments are acting towards the situation as they are, like in China at begin, are afraid to make mistakes toward the economy. Italy now has taken the first hard step like the Chinese finally did to really act against the virus, what ever it costs. The only problem in Italy now is, that many people from the north started to travel to the south before the actual look down came into place. So the risk of spreading the virus to "Southern Italy" is now higher than ever before.
An other problem here in Europe is the capacities of emergencies rooms and beds, as most of the hospitals here do already run on there limits with personal and what so ever for economical reasons. This is called: "Neocolonialism" pure (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism). Those kind of politic may could now become to a test at its hardest level when the virus not can be stopped in time (Six until 12 months and this is the time in short and with very positive outlook, which is used to find new proofed vaccines)
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