Memorial day saw some massive breakdowns in social distancing.

[mlm]

I just made that up? It's been widely reported upon. Remember that family in New Jersey that lost five people and had about a dozen sick that made the news? While the most tragic, it was not an isolated event.

I'm Italian and still have ties to that area, where I grew up. It has impacted many large Italian families that way, as they tend to have large extended family groups that stay close to each other and spend a lot of time together. Growing up, our entire extended family of 20+ people got together every single Sunday for a large midday meal and stayed all day through an early light dinner. It's very common and, early in the pandemic, it contributed to the spread among families in the NY/NJ area.

I've seen reports about affected groups and have never seen Italians mentioned. I'm also generally pretty good at google and didn't see any results that substantiate your claim. Nothing you stated above supports your statement either. And to be clear: there have been anecdotal claims about infections happening at family gatherings...just nothing quantifying this to Italian families in NY/NJ. That is the part you made up

Not like it's the first time you've presented your opinions as fact, or used faulty logic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization

 

[Archimedes]

I've seen reports about affected groups and have never seen Italians mentioned. I'm also generally pretty good at google and didn't see any results that substantiate your claim. Nothing you stated above supports your statement either. And to be clear: there have been anecdotal claims about infections happening at family gatherings...just nothing quantifying this to Italian families in NY/NJ. That is the part you made up

Not like it's the first time you've presented your opinions as fact, or used faulty logic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization

Yes, nothing about this article speaks to the way CV-19 can attack a large family cluster...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ember-die-coronavirus-20-isolated/2882689001/

and Cuomo never spoke of how the transmission that they were experiencing in New York, a heavily Italian American city, was largely within the homes/immediate families...

The family dynamic of Italians and Hispanics are very similar, (large extended families with frequent gatherings) and the communities that have seen the fastest spread of the disease have been heavily Hispanic and heavily Italian. Of course one gets way more press than the other because it feeds The Agenda.

 

[Climber]

I wonder if this guy will be invited to family gatherings in the future....

California man with coronavirus symptoms infected large family gathering, health officials say

Shasta County health officials say a man showing coronavirus symptoms attended a "large family gathering," now a cluster of a dozen confirmed cases.

The man, who is in his 20s, attended the party a few weeks ago. Afterward, he went in for a COVID-19 test and learned he had the virus. The county health department asked 20 people at the party to self-quarantine. As of June 21, 12 party-goers have now tested positive and most are showing symptoms, health officials said.

 

[mlm]

Yes, nothing about this article speaks to the way CV-19 can attack a large family cluster...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ember-die-coronavirus-20-isolated/2882689001/

and Cuomo never spoke of how the transmission that they were experiencing in New York, a heavily Italian American city, was largely within the homes/immediate families...

The family dynamic of Italians and Hispanics are very similar, (large extended families with frequent gatherings) and the communities that have seen the fastest spread of the disease have been heavily Hispanic and heavily Italian. Of course one gets way more press than the other because it feeds The Agenda.

I’m not denying the evidence you are providing, only the logical connection, or in this case lack of it. There are numbers documenting racial breakdowns. There are numbers documenting type of spread. There are no numbers specifically calling out Italian Americans. There are no numbers correlating to family size. An article or even 10 showing an Italian family impacted doesn’t substitute for that. Whether it sounds like “common sense” or not doesn’t change that. To pose it as a hypothesis is fine, but it is far from and established fact. All we really know is that a large number of people catch the virus from people they live with, which shouldn’t be surprising.