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Coronavirus-hit Italy sees morgues pushed to the limit, report says
Fox News ^ | March 16 2020 | Edmund DeMarche

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; disease; europe; flubras; flubros; italy; justacold; justtheflu
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1 posted on 03/17/2020 12:16:19 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

What happens when you ‘but flu’.


2 posted on 03/17/2020 12:22:20 AM PDT by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant.)
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To: knighthawk
As of Monday, Italy had 3,760 total cases of the virus. There have been 2,158 confirmed deaths in the country, second only to China.

From your source.



PUSH HARDER!! Wham-Bam Wuhan Scam!


3 posted on 03/17/2020 12:37:41 AM PDT by SanchoP (DC is the deep state.)
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To: knighthawk
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.

4 posted on 03/17/2020 12:47:42 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: knighthawk
As of Monday, Italy had 3,760 total cases of the virus. There have been 2,158 confirmed deaths in the country

That can’t be correct

5 posted on 03/17/2020 12:50:28 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: knighthawk

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??


6 posted on 03/17/2020 1:33:47 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

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


7 posted on 03/17/2020 1:34:22 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: calenel
That was typical normalcy bias, and it seems even FReepers were susceptible to that. I even saw several calling FReepers warning it might be more than just a flu ‘fear mongers,’ and some of the more irascible ones even insulted fellow FReepers (one is still doing it). Most of them are now quiet, with one even changing to an anti-Trump stance. I am sure there are several still holding strong to their ‘it’s nothing,’ but even for those ones the next 8 days will make them shut up.

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!

8 posted on 03/17/2020 1:37:09 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: texas booster
Someone had posted the obits of an Italian paper, which had gone from one page to ten.

Italian names

9 posted on 03/17/2020 1:38:12 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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?


10 posted on 03/17/2020 2:25:41 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: SanchoP

No way. The death rate is not 67%


11 posted on 03/17/2020 2:28:32 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.


12 posted on 03/17/2020 2:29:05 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: texas booster

Europe is full of Chinese doing the cheaper textile jobs.


13 posted on 03/17/2020 2:30:03 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Mom MD

Exactly,it’s climate change with a cough.


14 posted on 03/17/2020 2:42:05 AM PDT by SanchoP (DC is the deep state.)
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To: texas booster

[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.]


Someone suggested that ethnicity was being withheld as a means of preventing prejudice against the Chinese nationals in the population. If so, I’m not sure why the authorities are so sensitive about it - it’s a given that the source of the original bug is ultimately Chinese even if Patient Zero is allegedly a German national. But whatever the medium of transmission, the origin obviously lies somewhere in China.

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:


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/coronavirus-obituaries-pages-italian-newspaper-21696391
[”This is the daily newspaper of Bergamo, one of the epidemic hotspot in Italy,” a Twitter caption to the footage read.

“On Febrary 9th, obituaries occupied 1.5 pages.

“On March 13th, the paper printed 10 (!!) pages of obituaries.]


Obituaries are basically classified ads paid for by the relatives of the dead. That’s why they’re usually cloying in tone even for people with no redeeming social value, like mobsters (not to mention lawyers and politicians). Unless you think it’s plausible that relatives of transient Chinese sweatshop workers are paying for obituaries in Italian language newspapers in Italy, I’m gonna guess that the vast majority of deaths from this pathogen are Italian Italians.

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.


15 posted on 03/17/2020 3:05:23 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: knighthawk

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.


16 posted on 03/17/2020 3:57:12 AM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet had demint)
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To: DAC21

Should have said morgues not mortuaries.


17 posted on 03/17/2020 3:58:18 AM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet had demint)
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To: spetznaz

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


18 posted on 03/17/2020 4:20:22 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: knighthawk

Oh wow! “Report says!”

I’ll put this right up there with the Fake News favorite line when attacking Republicans: “Some are saying...”


19 posted on 03/17/2020 4:32:36 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: texas booster

“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


20 posted on 03/17/2020 4:53:44 AM PDT by BobL (If some people here don't want to prep for Coronavirus, they can explain it to their families)
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