Italy: Governor accused of racism for wanting to test travellers from China

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Italy: Governor accused of racism for wanting to test travellers from China

By Michael Lord 2 April 2020:

The Governor of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, has said that he was accused of being a racist in February when he suggested that travellers coming from China should be tested for the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Italian politician: Centuries of our history risk to disappear if Islamisation gains the upper hand https://t.co/wW1Oj5pR7I

— Voice of Europe 🌍 (@V_of_Europe) January 16, 2018

Fontana, who is a member of Matteo Salvini’s nationalist Lega party, revealed the response to his warning during a debate in the Regional Council on Tuesday, according to a report by La Repubblica. He claimed that when he had suggested that people arriving from China should be tested for the virus on February 3, he was assured by Italy’s Left-wing Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, that the country was in no danger of a mass outbreak because the medical system was too well-prepared for it.

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Fontana added that some of his colleagues had called him a racist at the time for suggesting the tests, and said that he had been “mocked with insolent words” and that he had been offended by the remarks. He also claimed that he was told that ordering the testing would lead to a loss of Italy’s standing in the eyes of the world.

Lombardy is the region of Italy which has suffered the most during the coronavirus outbreak. Overall, Italy has had the most confirmed cases of coronavirus infection of any European country. The first cases in Italy appeared at the end of January, when two Chinese tourists were confirmed to have it. The first significant outbreak was discovered on February 21 in Lombardy, when there were 16 confirmed cases.

Fontana also had harsh words for Italy’s National Institute of Health (ISS), which has forced a Lombardian company capable of manufacturing 900,000 protective masks per day to wait for certification before it can commence work. “The ISS has yet to realize that we are in a state of emergency,” Fontana said. “Since no one is giving us masks,

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Boromir's Horn

4 years ago

Maybe, just maybe, the deadly seriousness of this virus will expose the danger of saying everything is racist. It’s time the world grew up and started using common sense and stop our childish way of thinking.

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Ban Islam

4 years ago

Just more evidence that political correctness is a mental disorder that always leads to your own destruction.

Here we see exactly what happens when people fallaciously claim that it is “racist” to discriminate against people who carry a deadly pathogen or belong to a dangerous religion. All you do is cause them to spread like wildfire.

This is why Italy now has the second highest rate of Covid, just behind the US. If you do nothing about Islam, they will multiply, outbreed you and turn your country into another Pakistan or ‘Palestine.’

We should be at war right now against Muslims and their supporters who are mostly on the Left and some traitors on the Right. It’s a battle for our future and the survival of our freedom and way of life.

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felix1999

4 years ago

China learns quickly from the west. Play the RACE card and continue to inflict more damage for as long as possible and keep the opposition on the offensive.

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TD

4 years ago

Want to come to Italy from China or Turkey?
“fuhgettaboutit”!

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Roma Mikhasev

4 years ago

Enemy inside

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leonore35

4 years ago

Typical idiotic nonsense from the left, why is anyone surprised? Of course people should be checked if they come from anywhere with a large concentration of cases, and that includes Italians!

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glenda lafont

4 years ago

If it’s from China, it’s from China. What would one say??? Everything
is racist.

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John Acord

4 years ago

The Milanese rag trade was bought by the Chinese so they could label their Chinese rags “Made in Italy.” They then imported 400,000 low-wage Chinese laborers to work in the factories to sew garments and label them. These Chinese workers brought the CCP Virus to Italy. One result of the CCP Virus is the canard “racist” no longer has any meaning whatsoever and will no longer be an effective attack by the LibTards on their opponents.

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dad1927

4 years ago

arrest the accusers as terrorists

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