From your source.
Posted on 03/17/2020 12:16:19 AM PDT by knighthawk
Morgues in some areas of Italy are working to deal with the dramatic increase in bodies as the result of the coronavirus pandemic that has swept through the country.
The New York Times reported that the Lombardy region, which is in the northern part of the country, has been hit particularly hard. Brother Marco Bergamelli, one of the priests at the Church of All Saints in Bergamo, told the paper that the church cannot keep up with the demand.
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What happens when you ‘but flu’.
From your source.
Anyone find any English confirmation for that report? Would love to know if most of the deaths are Chinese surnames, or if the Chinese simply don't report into the local press.
That can’t be correct
This is interesting because so far out of the entire world population only 0.002% have or have had this virus and 0.00009% have died from it. That is an incredibly small number and already anarchy is setting in? My God, what would happen if we had something that was wiping out millions??
At this moment, the numbers for Italy on the Johns Hopkins site are 27,980 confirmations/2,158 deaths
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
As I was telling some of them a week ago, I really hoped they were right and COVID is nothing/a hoax.
I still hope they are right ...fervently!
Italian names
I am of the impression that this is deliberate and they are all in on it. The shining star in trumps arsenal is the economy does this warrant a stock market crash?
No way. The death rate is not 67%
The negative articles continue. Obama did nothing while the Swine flu hit us. Since there was no media coverage of it, it came and went. The other side trust sees this has Trump’s Jimmy Carter moment.
Sickening.
Europe is full of Chinese doing the cheaper textile jobs.
Exactly,it’s climate change with a cough.
[I saw a report that the Lombardi region has ~350,000 Chinese population, and that the CV is still mostly within that population group.
Anyone find any English confirmation for that report? Would love to know if most of the deaths are Chinese surnames, or if the Chinese simply don’t report into the local press.]
If they’re obscuring it to deceive Italians into thinking that the vast majority of the victims are ethnic Chinese, thereby sparking sympathy instead of anger at that community, word of mouth alone should give the lie to that attempt at myth-making. Then there are the vastly expanded obituary sections in Italian language Italian newspapers, a story also covered by WaPo:
“On Febrary 9th, obituaries occupied 1.5 pages.
“On March 13th, the paper printed 10 (!!) pages of obituaries.]
Each page had an average of 8 columns and 8 names per column. That’s 64 per page. 10 pages would be 640 names. Before the catastrophe, obituaries were 1-1/2 pages. That’s 96 names. So the increase in daily deaths comes to over 500, which is higher than the daily coronavirus death toll so far. These are obviously rough guesses, but they lead me to wonder whether there are coronavirus deaths that remain unrecorded as pathogen-related. At any rate, my guess is that based on the vast expansion in the obituaries section, the vast majority (perhaps 99%) of coronavirus deaths in Italy are ethnic Italian.
A footnote - not everyone has living relatives willing to pony up for an obituary. And of those who do pay up, presumably not everyone does so in that particular daily. So the obituary expansion in this particular Italian paper is probably not all-inclusive of the extraordinary death toll from this virus.
2nd footnote - if this bug is just the flu, the question is why the obituaries went from 1.5 pages to 10. We’d have to assume that survivors of the coronavirus dead are much more into paying for obituaries than the relatives of people who died from the flu.
Lombardy region is 11 million people. It’s not like plenty of people aren’t dying every day of the year. Actually I just calculated it, natural death rate is 10.4 per thousand per year in Italy (very high rate to begin with) If my Jethro Bodine cyphering is right that is about 315 deaths per day (normal rate). So they have nearly doubled the death rate on a few days. I suspect things have peaked in Italy. Suck it up mortuaries, bury the dead with services to follow when things settle.
Should have said morgues not mortuaries.
One?..lol..its still going on with many..and some are quite nasty...like they get a sick pleasure out of it.
There is a dr on twitter that changed his tune from its a cold to this is serious...after having to deal with patients in ER.
But here...nasty attacks continue
Oh wow! “Report says!”
I’ll put this right up there with the Fake News favorite line when attacking Republicans: “Some are saying...”
“I saw a report that the Lombardi region has ~350,000 Chinese population, and that the CV is still mostly within that population group.”
No, that was just more of the FluBros trying to ‘rationalize’ Coronavirus away.
Although in Italian, look at the pictures as this man rolls through the obit pages:
https://mobile.twitter.com/davcarretta/status/1238791068071661568
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