Posted on 03/15/2020 9:12:31 AM PDT by Reno89519
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic poses two threats: public health and economic.
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As I write:
The streets are almost empty.
These steps are not an overreaction. The coronavirus is out of control of in Northern Italy. As of 6 p.m. local/1 p.m. EST on March 10, there were 15,113 total cases in Italy, with 12,839 active cases, 1,016 deaths and 1,258 recoveries. And there were 162 total cases here in Rome.
The hardest-hit region around Milan has had to improvise as its health system has been deeply stressed by the sheer number of patients. In Milan and Brescia, field hospitals have been set up in the fairgrounds as the local hospitals have been drowned in patients.
Because the demand for respirators and intensive care has been beyond any previous planning, doctors have been forced into the kind of triage thinking developed for intense battlefield casualty situations. There are reports that emergency room doctors are allotting respirators to those with higher life expectancy due to the limited equipment in the hardest hit areas of the province. If you are older or have other illnesses, you may simply not be eligible for treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Oh, are we Italy with socialized medicine?
Now what was it the Holy Father was saying about immigration?
Why is Newt trying to make Trump look bad?
Is this the same jackass who was doing “global warming” ads with Nancy Pelosi as a paid shill for alternative energy interests? How much did Newt get paid to write this crap, and — importantly — who paid him?
Pay attention. That is not the issue.
Not too bright to go to Italy.
“Oh, are we Italy with socialized medicine?”
When it comes to your town, you’ll take any medicine you can get.
Thinking people realize this is simply a capacity issue.
What about what he said is wrong?
Are we Italy that has an infrastructure that is only a step up from a third world country?
Funny how tornados always seem to hit trailer parks the hardest.
I won’t click through to Newsweak, but why is Newt in Italy in the first place?
His latest wife is Ambassador to the Vatican.
What?!? Newt did nothing but praise a Trump.
Ah yes, the couch sitting, Pelosi loving, big government climate change pusher, sticks his finger in the wind.
He listed all the steps Italy has taken that Trump has not.
If the COVID-19 outbreak is such a disaster in Italy, then what the hell is he doing there?
COMPLY with quarantines. Limit exposure. Stay away from crowds.
What the government is trying to do is to stop a whole bunch of people getting really sick all at the same time. YOU can help by NOT getting sick. That means take it seriously. Don't walk around and act like this isn't serious and convey that attitude to others. YOU will be directly contributing to the devastation of our health care system and ultimately the economy.
Pay attention, a country is only prepared to deal with this as permitted by their healthcare system. An unhealthy populace makes a ripe target for this virus.
Selling a Book? Keeping his credentials up to snuff to keep his gig on FOX.
why in God’s name would he still be in Italy??
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