I see your point.
Italy always fares poorly year on year on flu seasons
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
> We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16
> And it is not influenza, please stop that,
I never asserted that it was, if you read the comment you will see that I was asserting that they usually fare poorly in influenza seasonal outbreaks. For the same reasons it's faring poorly with cv19