Posted on 03/09/2020 4:16:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The Italian PM Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday that special measures will be imposed across the whole country including travel restrictions and a ban on gatherings in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus (Paywall Free).
The measures had initially been imposed on certain regions in the north like Lombardy which has seen the biggest outbreak of the virus.
But on Monday evening, after it was announced the death toll had risen by 97 to 463, the PM said the measures would be imposed nationwide.
Those measures include banning all public gatherings and stopping travel other than for work and emergencies.
Conte said the measures, which will affect 60 million people, were needed to protect the country's most vulnerable and people should now stay at home, Reuters news agency said. The decree would come into force on Tuesday morning.
All sporting events will be suspended including Italy's Serie A football league.
"I am going to sign a decree that can be summarised as follows: I stay at home," Conte announced in a dramatic evening television address.
"The whole of Italy will become a protected zone," he said.
Travel in and out of the country as well as movement between cities will be restricted.
But it was not immediately clear how all these measures will be imposed.
Trains and numerous flights continued to operate into and out of Milan on Monday despite the earlier set of restrictions for its Lombardy region.
The government had already moved to close schools and universities across the country as well as cinemas, theatres and gyms.
Another 1,897 cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, Italy's Civil Protection Department announced on Monday evening, bringing the total number of people confirmed to have contracted the new virus since the outbreak began to 9,172.
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You wish like hell he wouldn't, and even consider sending him notes
to that effect.
Hey, the information is out there.
People do these things knowing what the possibilities are.
Just sad. I never want to see someone die of cancer as a result
of poor choices.
Don’t be shocked if socialized medicine plays a hand in this; I wouldn’t be shocked if medical staff leave halfway through a procedure if it is time for them to “clock out”. Remember when all those people died in the heatwave in Europe in 2003? It was August - people had to go on holiday, needs of the people be damned.
Boy, if that became public knowledge you’d have some folks strung up.
They are also the EU air hub for China and are doing a tone of chinese 5G network installs. They are also OLD and smoke like chimneys, add to that socialized medicine and they are screwed.
And yet deaths are declining. Odd.
Your post made my heart stop.
My Beloved Italy had “lots of Chinese?”
I could cry.
It was public knowledge in 2003, and I can’t imagine the work ethic in Western Europe has improved (it functions as though everyone is protected by a union - their government & laws).
How do you come up with doubling every 4-5 days based on these numbers?
The case doubling rate is fairly constant at doubling every two days...
Date. Cases Doubled #days
27-Feb...15...01-Mar...2.5
28-Feb...19...01-Mar...2
29-Feb...24...02-Mar...2
01-Mar...42...03-Mar...2
02-Mar...57...04-Mar...2
03-Mar...85...05-Mar...2
04-Mar...111...06-Mar...2
05-Mar...176...07-Mar...2
06-Mar...252...08-Mar...2
07-Mar...351...09-Mar...2
08-Mar...475
09-Mar...702
10-Mar
11-Mar
12-Mar
13-Mar
Why important?
Tells us how soon until we get to medical system overload, which could be, at this rate, before the end of the month.
The case doubling rate is fairly constant at doubling every two days...
Date. Cases Doubled #days
27-Feb...15...01-Mar...2.5
28-Feb...19...01-Mar...2
29-Feb...24...02-Mar...2
01-Mar...42...03-Mar...2
02-Mar...57...04-Mar...2
03-Mar...85...05-Mar...2
04-Mar...111...06-Mar...2
05-Mar...176...07-Mar...2
06-Mar...252...08-Mar...2
07-Mar...351...09-Mar...2
08-Mar...475
09-Mar...702
10-Mar
11-Mar
12-Mar
13-Mar
Kindly show me my error in the doubling rate
Everything strikes mainly seniors. Cold, flu, slip & fall.
it’s italy’s fault. they want cheap chinese labors, and want to keep the made in Italy label. so all the f$%^&ers from Wenzhou, china came
In Athens about 20 years ago I got a stomach virus. I went to a shiny new (socialist) government hospital. And they told me they were closed. Then I went to a private doctor and was OK in no time.
Collectively, Greeks seem to be bigger smokers than Italians.
The upside, to many places in Europe, is that their pharmacies can dispense meds that are considered Rx, here.
Our youngest had a sinus infection, while we were traveling, and the Parisian pharmacist fixed us right up. No doc appt required. That was a blessing.
On the other hand, we witnessed a bad motorcycle accident, while at an outdoor bistro...it took a half an hour for an ambulance to show up. They worked on the poor guy right there on the sidewalk, for another half hour, before finally sending him on his way. Someone arrived to pick him up.
That’s one way to cut down on hospital expenses ($$ and HC staff). We hoped he had no enternal bleeding :(
I would agree with that.
It had been my impression at the time that something would be done.
If unions are the problem here, it sure puts on display the evil nature of unions.
Thanks for the mentions there.
Interesting...
When I talk to people about socialized medicine in the US, I ask them how they’d like to deal with attitudes similar to the state workers at Motor Vehicles - because that’s what they’d get.
In the western European countries, it isn’t actual “unions”; the labor laws are such that most workers are protected with similar arrangements by the GOVERNMENT. That is what screws up employment in those places; when you hire someone, they have a lot of protections and can really screw an employer.
Thanks for the mention.
I didn’t realize it worked that way.
No problem.
It is one of the reasons the unemployment for younger people who is high; older workers can basically hang on as long as they’d like (working in “low gear”), so jobs don’t open up.
Does sound work environment healthy does it.
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