Can you tell that to my governor? 'cause every couple days she's throwing more things in, based on how "ineffective" the previous orders were. It's like, I get it, we need to contain the spread. But stop saying that you're doing this new thing because the rates are still climbing so obviously this thing you did two days ago didn't work. Maybe it didn't, but two days is not enough time to know.

In Italy the national lockdown was announced on March 9th, so 16 days ago. Today Italy reported 5210 new infections. So the government measures might have some effect, but nothing like in China.

I don't live in Italy so for me it's hard to judge, but could the difference in efficacy maybe be explained by the discipline of the people?