Guest Post by Alex Berenson
Did an earthquake in Italy in April 2009 help fuel the catastrophic overreaction to the coronavirus 12 years later?
China started the Covid lockdowns.
But Italy spread them worldwide.
On February 22, 2020, as the coronavirus receded in China, Italian authorities closed several towns, making Italy the first Western country to quarantine its citizens.
Nine days later, Italy closed its schools. Then, on March 9, it announced a national lockdown, testing “what a democracy can do during peacetime,” the Washington Post wrote.
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Italy began moving before the British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson had created his terrifying projections that Covid would collapse health care systems. (Ferguson loves a good disaster, or at least a good disaster prediction – in 2005, he promised 200 million bird flu deaths.)
