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In reply to the discussion: Trump wonders if COVID-19 genomes gave fake quotes to the NYT in bizarre Saturday outburst [View all]LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)China to Italy where they have leather factories near Florence. The staff flying back and forth from Wuhan to Milan.
Switzerland where I live, gets about 40% of their tourism dollars from China. 40 million people visit Switzerland every year. Switzerland borders Italy and that is where most of the concentration of cases are in Switzerland. Also, they didn't shut the border between Italy and Switzerland soon enough as border crossers work on both sides. Remember those skiers in France had been infected that were holidaying France ski resorts. There was a connection from one of them that had recently flown in from China.
Then all of those tourists around Europe going back and forth from Italy from all over the country, including NYC. They shut down the flights from China but then those in China took other flights via Europe to get to the states until those flight were shut down.
By then, it was too late. It was already in the states, mostly Seattle and NYC.
And here we are.