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Italians send chilling coronavirus warning to Americans in new video (Italy currently has the highest "new cases" total. America now fifth at 1,776)
Time ^ | Today | Scott Stump

Posted on 03/17/2020 4:37:26 PM PDT by cba123

Italians have a message for any Americans not taking the coronavirus seriously: Don't say you weren't warned.

An unsettling new video features a group of Italians sharing what they would have told themselves 10 days ago about taking precautions to stop the spread of the coronavirus before it devastated the country.

(Full article at the link)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: italy; usa
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To: cba123

We knew the numbers would jump once testing started. That’s a function of testing and not of real new cases.


21 posted on 03/17/2020 4:50:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cba123

America is the 3rd most populated country in the world.
What’s the per capita ranking.
Never mind. Don’t care.


22 posted on 03/17/2020 4:51:16 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: cba123

Why the constant attention to the number of new cases, never with any adjustment for population size? What matters is the mortality of the new cases, which will depend on pre-existing conditions. Go into a nursing home in Italy, and you’re going to find lots of them. Go to a college spring break gathering in Florida, and you won’t find many.


23 posted on 03/17/2020 4:53:11 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: goodnesswins

Sorry, that actually should read, “fourth”, not “fifth”...

Italy
Spain
Germany

Now these are not the cumulative totals, just yesterday.


24 posted on 03/17/2020 4:55:31 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123

Americans will NEVER get this virus.

We are clean and proud and respect the purity of our precious bodily fluids!!

Only bad countries with bad people get diseases!


25 posted on 03/17/2020 4:56:18 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: cba123

What is your source for the 1776 new cases? That would be a huge jump from the general trend.


26 posted on 03/17/2020 4:56:20 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: null and void

LOL


27 posted on 03/17/2020 4:56:31 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: cba123

Each of those countries is about the size of New York. ..sorry not going to look up...my point is population totals matter


28 posted on 03/17/2020 4:57:20 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Trump is as good a dictator as he is a racist.....)
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To: ifinnegan
"Time magazine crap."

Watch, they'll have Xi Jinping or some other Chi-com official as their "Person of the Year" for 2020.

29 posted on 03/17/2020 4:57:54 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: cba123

Everybody, go out on your balcony and start singing.


30 posted on 03/17/2020 4:58:20 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: InterceptPoint

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


31 posted on 03/17/2020 4:58:26 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123

New cases should be double what they were six days ago, perhaps even more so now that we’re testing.


32 posted on 03/17/2020 5:01:04 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Socon-Econ

Italy had multi generational living ie vulnerable grandparents, children and grandchildren living under same roof.


33 posted on 03/17/2020 5:01:12 PM PDT by fastrock
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To: HighSierra5
I’m scared.

Me too. If it gets any worse I'll be hiding under the bed.

34 posted on 03/17/2020 5:02:07 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Karl Spooner

“...We have the best healthcare system in the world! /s...”

Congress, and all the prominent political elites, have the best healthcare system in the world. The “unwashed masses”? Not so much.


35 posted on 03/17/2020 5:03:02 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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36 posted on 03/17/2020 5:05:36 PM PDT by 4Liberty (BERNIE SANDERS: A CRUSTY, ANTI-AMERICAN WEIRDO. - Kurt Schlichter)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

[The message I’m taking from the Italians (and Chinese) is that I don’t want a single-payer health insurance system. ]


My understanding, from both Chinese acquaintances and what I’ve read, is that the Chinese health system is mostly pay-for-service. Cash up front is the rule, ostensibly lifted by the Chinese government only for coronavirus patients. In normal circumstances, no cash means no service, even for accident-related trauma patients inside the golden hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(medicine)

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21161067/coronavirus-covid19-china
[The first thing is, they said testing is free, treatment is free. Right now, there are huge barriers [to testing and treatment] in the West. You can get tested, but then you might be negative and have to foot the bill. In China, they realized those were barriers to people seeking care, so, as a state, they took over the payments for people whose insurance plans didn’t cover them. They tried to mitigate those barriers. ]


38 posted on 03/17/2020 5:19:04 PM 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: cba123

When all is said and done, and the dust settles, and all the dying is reduced or stopped, China is going to have to pay.

China should give 100s of billions of $$$ to the Italians for what they’ve done.

I am convinced that they deliberately hid the seriousness of this disease from the world, and then didn’t deal honestly with other governments of the how they were allowing it to initially spread.

At the very least, the whole world needs to stop buying all their essentials from China and cut their investments MASSIVELY, while stopping Chinese firms from taking over parts of their industries.

I say this not in hatred or prejudice of Chinese people, but of their terrible communist butcher government.


39 posted on 03/17/2020 5:23:27 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: cba123

Not only do the Italians have a problem with COVID-19, they also have a basic math problem...

As of 5 PM (PST):

Italy - Case Fatality Rate - 7.9%

USA - Case Fatality Rate - 1.7%

The USA Case Fatality Rate has gone down or stayed even for seven of the last eight days.

The Italian Case Fatality Rate has gone up from 5% to 8% over the last eight days.


40 posted on 03/17/2020 5:28:45 PM PDT by zeestephen
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