Quote Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer View Post
Italy is a very different culture than us and in the case of spreading virus, very unfortunate relative the USA

(1) Italian bars are tiny. They can touch 10 people where ever you stand...and they love those bars, its cultural.
(2) Italians eat family style at restaurants, frequently in close quarters
(3) They don't clean things the same way we do. A cold beer in Italy is not a cold beer to us, they only thing they make really Hot is coffee
(4) Work lunch is not dudes getting a burger at a drive through. They walk together and eat at cafeteria style small restaurants. Chatting and social.
(5) everything is old, we use lots more plastic cups, forks, and spoons. They use long term utensils
(6) just so happens that we have italian cold-chain companies on IOT devices, we know they don't use cold or hot like we do.
(7) big users of trains and public buses over there, personal cars are not the rule. parking and rent is expensive.

I could go on. Mississippi especially is not like Italy at all. The Bronx is sort-of like Italy, but not West Point, MS.