Posted on 03/12/2020 10:52:57 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
An Italian actor who appeared in the TV drama “Gomorrah” has posted a heartbreaking video pleading for help as the body of his sister, who died of the coronavirus, is seen in the background.
Luca Franzese, a mixed martial arts trainer, was trapped in his Naples home with the decaying body of Teresa Franzese, who died of the illness on Saturday.
“I am waiting for the institutions to give me answers since last night. Nobody came forward,” the grief-stricken man said Sunday in the emotional video posted on Facebook.
“This is a very strong video, please don’t show it to children and elderly people. I am forced in all my pain to fight this situation — I have my sister here in bed, dead. I don’t know what to do, I can’t honor her as she deserves because institutions abandoned me,” he said.
“I contacted everyone, but nobody was able to give me an answer,” said Franzese, who was unable to find a funeral home that would bury his sister.
Italy, where all 60 million inhabitants remain under lockdown, has confirmed 827 deaths from the coronavirus and identified more than 12,000 cases.
The 47-year-old woman, who suffered from a form of epilepsy but was otherwise in good health, had developed symptoms of coronavirus just a few days before she died, according to Al Jazeera.
At her brother’s insistence, Teresa was tested for the virus after she died and confirmed to have been infected, the news outlet reported.
Franzese said health officials refused to test him because they said they first had to know whether she was infected.
“I self-isolated myself. Today I could go anywhere to spread the virus if I have it because I gave my sister a mouth-to-mouth to keep her alive and no one cared,” he said.
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Didn’t the Italians recently vote in a liberal government?
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Yes, normally, but things are not business as usual. The system is overwhelmed and the govt cant be relied upon.
Who run the “institutions”?
This is more a commentary about the “human” frailty and the lack of feelings we have one for the other.
[Yes, normally, but things are not business as usual. The system is overwhelmed and the govt cant be relied upon. ]
Sometimes you have to take the initiative, consequences be damned. This seems to be one of those times.
Amen to all that. It doesn't take much to overwhelm the Italian health care system. And their bureaucracy is still operating as it did in the days of Rome.
The swine flu in 2009 went after a much younger age group, even kids.
Don’t remember panic back then.
“A medical examiner may have to look at the body to rule out foul play.”
Pretty sure the M.E.s in Italy aren’t going to be able to dot every i and cross every t for a while.
[The swine flu in 2009 went after a much younger age group, even kids.
Don’t remember panic back then.]
The flu multiplier is ~100. The coronavirus multiplier will likely be smaller, given all the testing that is being done. But it will be substantial, given the shortage of test kits, and the similarity between coronavirus and flu symptoms. Bottom line is - the coronavirus pandemic will likely have numbers far exceeding the flu, given the way medical facilities in Italy (which does have a flu season) are not treating patients falling outside certain parameters. In Italy, patients over 65 with underlying health conditions are being left to die. For such patients, a hospital is just a hospice.
I understand that. CDC always gives wide ranges of their estimates.
But they do say 80% of H1N1 viral related deaths were younger than 65y.o.
That was my question, too.
ONLY AFFECTS THE ELDERLY!!!
“The 47-year-old woman”
MY WIDE ASS!!!
Sounds like she wasn’t in “good health.”
It really does seem that coronavirus takes the elderly and infirm.
Not faked.
Overblown.
all the H1N1 stats are based on assumptions....they did not test everybody that they ultimately placed in the positive category....that would take too long...they based their assumptions on the patient being negative for flu but with symptoms nonetheless.....
It was resolved.
....” The video — which has been viewed almost 10 million times — prompted a local politician to intervene and succeed in finding a funeral home for the family.
“It was surreal,” said Pasquale Pernice, who works at the Aprea Funeral Home, according to Al Jazeera.
Italian doctor at heart of illness shares chilling coronavirus thoughts
“We used masks, sterile shoes, hazmat suits, glasses and gloves. Luca and another relative were there, but other family members were all in another room,” Penice said.
No family members were present during the burial.
“If it gets worse, and we have to do it again, we will. It’s our job,” Pernice added.” ....
“The swine flu in 2009 went after a much younger age group, even kids”
As did the Spanish Flu 1918-19
This one could solve our SocSec and Medicare budget shortfalls. Unfortunately the fedgov will p*ss away the borrowed dough on something else.
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