He thought he could preserve the economy with his denial and in the end made it worse.
People live in some kind of unreality, do they not know about the rest of the world.
They need to get on a plane and visit northern Italy and talk to the people there... this is just tragic this "hoax" language when 100 000 people have been diagnosed with this virus in the USA.
115.000 or so yesterday.
out of 1.5 MILLION test results.
all the virus pushers leave that part out.
and, as far as northern italy , the population is very dense, and multiple generations of relatives live in the same home.
so, the kids went out, got the virus, and the older folks who lived in the same home got it , and very sadly, many died.
so, as horrible as that was, it is not a straight comparison to other palces.
( also, they have many chinese workers flying in, working for a few months, then flying back to china. that made matters much worse in italy.}