I wish you were right, but I fear you are in denial.
So, “It’s just the flu.”
(Like in Italy?)
FYI, Italian hospitals are in meltdown.
If you are over 65, or at any age if you have any co-morbid condition (diabetes, heart cond. etc), you are put outside the treatment triage. There simply are not enough staff or ICU beds or lung machines for all. You will not get into ICU, no oxygen intubation, you will just die. This is why Italys death rate is so high.
I think the USA will resemble Italy, not S. Korea or Taiwan, where they got way out in front of CV with massive early testing programs, early contract tracing, quarantine and social isolation EARLY.
In the USA, we missed those critical weeks and months of preparation.
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(From the beginning of the thread reader, link to it all is below.)
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From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:
1/ I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.
2/ First, Lumbardy is the most developed region in Italy and it has a extraordinary good healthcare, I have worked in Italy, UK and Aus and dont make the mistake to think that what is happening is happening in a 3rd world country.
3/ The current situation is difficult to imagine and numbers do not explain things at all. Our hospitals are overwhelmed by Covid-19, they are running 200% capacity
4/ Weve stopped all routine, all ORs have been converted to ITUs and they are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma or strokes. There are hundreds of pts with severe resp failure and many of them do not have access to anything above a reservoir mask.
5/ Patients above 65 or younger with comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not saying not tubed, Im saying not assessed and no ITU staff attends when they arrest. Staff are working as much as they can but they are starting to get sick and are emotionally overwhelmed.
6/ My friends call me in tears because they see people dying in front of them and they con only offer some oxygen. Ortho and pathologists are being given a leaflet and sent to see patients on NIV. PLEASE STOP, READ THIS AGAIN AND THINK.
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PART ONE
PART TWO
This will take care of the social security problem here in the US.
You forgot to mention that Italy has gotten very cozy with China in recent years. Chinese investment in Italy, along with tourism (both ways) have increased significantly in recent years. Besides that, the notion that the Italian health care system is on par with the rest of Europe, much less the USA, is pure folly.
Yesterday you posted the Corona hockey stick.
Congratulations on furthering the panic with a very effective picture, lie though it may be.
Your posts are not to be trusted to be candid or truthful.
I knew you'd be here with your over used stats, tale of woe, doom and gloom and the only thing that you've dropped from your repertoire is your often shared, Michael Mann, globull warming, hockey stick graph.
Pooe joe bflpstx tavis...your life must really suck.