Worse depends on what you are expecting I guess.

There are billions and billions of people on the planet. I'm personally concerned about precisely one of them.

The rest, such as yourself and your globetrotting friends, are merely academic exercises.

I expect your friends will find the tourist hotspots intact and open to the public. They will find authentic food. They will find a modern and advanced rail system and a bustling economy. They will find vistas, villas and vineyards, ancient olive trees and folks who don't speak English. Pretty much all the normal stuff.

Just as an Italian would find here or a Chinaman would find in Moscow, just as you find when you go to downtown, smalltown, wherever you're at. Or when you go to the city.

Frankly, I wouldn't dream of burning thousands of gallons of fossil fuel to transport my sorry ass to Italy just so I could take in the sights, soak up the culture, and snap a few pics then burn thousands of gallons of fossil fuel to get home. Maybe a complete economic meltdown will put a stop to that kind of nonsense.

You seem to think factories temporarily shutting down is a major issue. That doomsday arrives when the smokestacks stop billowing clouds of foul industrial effluvium.

Maybe you're right. I reckon we'll see.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...