italy can not find a handle on this crisis even though
they have had a 2 week aggressive isolation campaign
to slow down the outbreak.
they just reported almost 6000 new cases and more
than 600 deaths just in the past 24 hours
some are pointing at the chinese workers who assemble
those expensive 'italian' designer bags in tuscony as the
source of the problem now.they went back to china for
their new year and came back with infections.
here is a report about them from 2018:
The Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Tuscany
The first significant wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in the industrial zone around Prato, a city fifteen miles northwest of Florence, in the nineteen-nineties. Nearly all of them came from Wenzhou, a port city south of Shanghai. For the Chinese, the culture shock was more modest than one might have expected. “The Italians were friendly,” one early arrival remembered. “Like the Chinese, they called one another Uncle. They liked family.” In Tuscany, business life revolved around small, interconnected firms, just as it did in Wenzhou, a city so resolutely entrepreneurial that it had resisted Mao’s collectivization campaign. The Prato area was a hub for mills and workshops, some of which made clothes and leather goods for the great fashion houses. If you were willing to be paid off the books, and by the piece, Prato offered plenty of opportunities. Many Wenzhouans found jobs there. “The Italians, being canny, would subcontract out their work to the Chinese,” Don Giovanni Momigli, a priest whose parish, near Prato, included an early influx of Chinese, told me. “Then they were surprised when the Chinese began to do the work on their own.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...workers-who-assemble-designer-bags-in-tuscany