Italy: Did Political correctness play a part in the huge death toll there.

(Rome) Italy has the highest official death toll to COVID 19 across the world. (I say official as I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of Iran or China) part of the reason why may be because over the last decade Italy sold off the vast majority of its leather making industry to Chinese companies, who filled those factories with Chinese migrants by the thousands  resulting in sweatshop conditions for poorly paid workers who lived packed like sardines in which to save costs.  In 2013 the BBC was reporting that the Prato region alone had over 4000 Chinese run clothing companies and accounted for 30% of Italy's textile imports from China. In 2016, Italy earned the wrath of the Chinese government when it started clamping down on shoddy working practices after a fire saw several Chinese migrants killed in a fire at one of these sweatshops.

So when news of a new virus started to air in January ,the mayor of Florence on the the 4th of Feb 2020 decided to promote a hug a Chinese person agenda in which to fight off any racism directed against the Chinese in Italy. The thing is at the time only 3 people had been identified as having caught the virus and the first death to it was still 17 days away. in light of the huge death toll, I have to ask, was the following video a good idea seeing as the Chinese already knew that it was (and still is) highly contagious.