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Comment by mlang23 | Hacker News Reader

What an exaggregation. Nice way to add to the overblown panic. In italy, about 250km south ofrm where I live, they have closed schools and universities, and disallowed public events. Today, I will be visiting a music festival in my hometown. No signs of cancellation. Clearly, some parts of the world react like a 9 year old girl.

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The way Germany is still allowing these music festivals (and football matches) to continue is what a 9-year old would do, to be honest, not the other way around. Granted, they're not alone in this, it seems like France has followed the same path. And why are you focusing your message only on Italy? Switzerland has adopted very similar measures (again, for very good reasons).

Italy may be overreacting, and at a huge cost to its economy. Yet, its better to overreact to things like this, than underreact. If anything, your country is the 9year old, not Italy.

Italy is if anything suffering from initially underreacting; they let the problem get far too large. At this point they din't have much choice; they've got a very serious problem.

When - pretty soon - intensive care units in most countries will be overwhelmed, and millions of (mostly elderly, granted) people will be left struggling for their life in their homes, we'll see who is acting like a 9yo.

No need to be rude towards the organizers of your music festival.

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