Author: Brandon G. Jones
Publication: ABC14News
Date:  March 21, 2020
URL:      https://abc14news.com/2020/03/21/italian-virologist-says-political-correctness-doomed-his-countrys-coronavirus-response/

Italy is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the glove and just one of the country’s top rated virologists claims political correctness is partly to blame.

Dr. Giorgio Palù, a professor of virology and microbiology of the University of Padova and the former head of the European and Italian Modern society for Virology, a short while ago reported that concerns around “politics” and staying perceived as racist delayed the government’s reaction to the deadly virus which originated in China.

There were ‘too substantially politics in Italy’

Palù advised CNN that the Italian governing administration unsuccessful by refusing to impose a wider and stricter lockdown before on, instead of the initial constraints that targeted on 11 regions Rome positioned in a “red zone.”

“We must have performed a lot more diagnostic exams in Lombardy exactly where there was a huge nucleus. There is no feeling in trying to go to the grocery store after a week. You have to limit your time out, isolation is the critical point,” he stated.

Palù also thinks that politics delayed the government’s reaction, which he decried as “lazy in the beginning,” expressing there is “way too significantly politics in Italy.”

A proposal to isolate travelers from China was considered as ‘racist’

The esteemed virologist included: “There was a proposal to isolate persons coming from the epicenter, coming from China.”

Having said that, the Italian federal government balked at the strategy out of singling out travelers coming from China out of worry it could be construed as racist.

“Then it grew to become noticed as racist, but they were being people today coming from the outbreak.” Palù explained this in the end led to the virus killing about 4,800 people today in Italy, the most of any nation in the entire world.

‘Hug a Chinese Day’

As RedState’s Nick Arama details out, Italians ended up so preoccupied with perceptions of racism that the mayor of Florence even launched a “Hug a Chinese” Day initiative soon right after President Donald Trump and Italian Key Minister Giuseppe Conte declared travel restrictions on China.

“We adhere to the directions of the health authorities and we use caution, but no psychological terrorism,” Mayor Dario Nardella saidin a tweet saying the initiative though blasting these he mentioned “could not wait to use this justification to detest and insult.” Nardella included the hashtag #AbbracciaUnCinese (#HugAChinese).

Normally, Beijing welcomed Florence’s “Hug a Chinese Day” venture and promoted it by Communist Party mouthpieces CGTN and International Moments.

More than 53,578 Italians have analyzed beneficial for COVID-19 as of Saturday evening.