Italian Virologist: Concerns not to appear “Racist” Crippled Timely Response to Pandemic.

Posted by DanielS on Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:10.

Italian Virologist Says Concerns Over “Racism” Crippled Response

Texags.com 20 Mar 2020

An Italian virologist says that the country’s attempt not to appear “racist” in the early says of the coronavirus outbreak crippled the ability to properly respond to the pandemic.

Professor of Virology and Microbiology at the University of Padova Dr. Giorgio Pal told CNN that measures imposing travel restrictions and border controls were taken too late due to fears over political correctness.

“There was a proposal to isolate people coming from the epicenter, coming from China,” Pal told CNN. “Then it became seen as racist, but they were people coming from the outbreak.”

Italy is now the hardest hit country in the world in terms of coronavirus deaths, with 3,405 people losing their lives.

The need to minimize potential “racism” and “stigmatization” in response to the coronavirus was a policy endorsed by the World Health Organization itself on numerous occasions and adopted by the left-wing Italian government.

As we previously highlighted, the Mayor of Florence launched a nationwide campaign at the start of February encouraging Italians to hug Chinese people on the street to “stem the hatred.”

Footage of the stunt even shows Italians physically removing a Chinese man’s face mask while closely embracing him.

The Mayor even released a Twitter video of himself hugging an awkward-looking Chinese person to promote the campaign, which was launched to “express solidarity with the Chinese community.”

Italians hug Chinese in Italy to encourage them in Coronavirus fight.

Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella has suggested residents hug Chinese people to encourage them in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, a member of Associazione Unione Giovani Italo Cinesi, a Chinese society in Italy aimed at promoting friendship between people in the two countries, called for respect for novel coronavirus patients during a street demonstration. “I’m not a virus. I’m a human. Eradicate the prejudice.”

The video was uploaded February 4th

It’s sad to me, really, because in concrete terms, I’d like for there to be good relations between Europeans and Orientals. It is the abstract concept of anti-racism and anti prejudice and its consequences that is the problem.

That video was uploaded February 4th. Three weeks later, Italy had recorded its third death. On March 20th alone, 627 deaths were recorded, bringing the total to over 4,000, with a frightening new trend introducing critical patients in their 40s and 30s.

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Posted by Viktor Orban on Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:22 | #

Bradley Moore, American Renaissance, March 20, 2020:

The Right Way to Fight the Pandemic

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself,” says a character in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, “and at times like that, the right words can change the world.” Who has the right words?

Politicians such as Emmanuel Macron who once lectured us about open borders are closing them, but one man who has been consistent is Hungary’s Viktor Orban. When he closed the country’s borders, he closed the universities. “There are lots of foreigners there,” he said. “Our experience is that primarily foreigners brought in the disease, and that it is spreading among foreigners.”

Many people are using war rhetoric. President Trump said he is a “wartime president.” President Macron said France is at “war.” An Italian doctor said the situation is “like a war.” Viktor Orban calls it a “two-front war.” “One front is called migration,” he said, “and the other one belongs to the coronavirus, there is a logical connection between the two, as both spread with movement.”

He’s right. His swift action has probably saved many Hungarian lives. Enoch Powell said statesmanship was avoiding “preventable evils.” Mr. Orban is a statesman. His government is avoiding problems because it’s not crippled by egalitarian, multicultural ideology. “We don’t agree with those who say ‘multiculturalism is by definition good,’” Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said two years ago in an interview that is still popular.

And speaking at a forum in Budapest, Viktor Orban pledged government assistance to economic players who suffer losses due to the novel coronavirus.

President Donald Trump’s position is more difficult. He must save the economy and hold together a multicultural empire, all while facing hostile media. He imposed travel restrictions on China in late January. The Chinese government and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden called the decision racist. Bernie Sanders had vowed to reverse “every single thing” the Trump Administration did to “demonize and harm immigrants” just days earlier. Today, President Trump’s response seems too mild.

This is a crisis, but also an opportunity.

Posted by Another 743 die in Italy, toll now 6,820 on Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:50 | #

Italy death toll rises by 743 : Live coronavirus updates

Al Jazeera, 20 hours ago

US has third-highest number of confirmed cases globally behind China and Italy as WHO warns it could be next epicentre.

by Kate Mayberry, Ramy Allahoum & Usaid Siddiqui
20 hours ago

The death toll in Italy from the coronavirus pandemic rose by 743 in one day to 6,820, reversing a declining trend in fatalities observed over the last two days.

In India, 1.3 billion people will go under “total lockdown” from midnight (18:30 GMT) on Tuesday for 21 days to combat the spread of the contagion.

Spain’s deaths surged by 514 in one day, bringing its total to 2,696. It also reported 6,600 new coronavirus cases, raising nationwide infections to 39,673.