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Well... I'm in my hometown in Italy right now, people are advised to work remotely or avoid mass transit, everything closes after 6PM, museums/theaters/schools
by 01acheru 7y ago
Well... I'm in my hometown in Italy right now, people are advised to work remotely or avoid mass transit, everything closes after 6PM, museums/theaters/schools are closed, a small percentage of the population is going a little crazy so please everyone we must start asking ourselves some questions about those wild numbers that come out and people reporting them must be a little bit more responsible.
We had 7 fatalities here in Italy in an really big area, all of those people were old (some very old) and with other aggressive diseases or health problems going on, but we keep saying we have 200something people positive to COVID-19 making the mortality rate 3.5% BUT those 7 people are absolutely not representative of the 3.5% of total population so we must be missing people that are positive to the virus but don't get tested and never will.
We don't have enough test kits, we don't have enough personnel, we cannot overwhelm every lab in northern Italy just to start testing everyone for COVID-19 so many people without symptoms or with light symptoms are going on with their lives without ever being reported as positive... you get tested if:
- you met with someone that died
- you have severe symptoms
- you have light symptoms and you are old or have some other disease
- you live in one of the (really small) isolated areas
- you escape from the areas that are isolated
- you are close to someone that have escaped
If you are young and have a cold, even if you want to get tested, no one will come. I know from first hand some 4 people that are sick right now (symptoms like normal cold or a mild influenza) and one person that had I bad influenza finishing last week... are they positive? We will never know, now scale that up to the millions of people living in northern Italy
- jamesrcole 7y ago> a small percentage of the population is going a little crazy What are they doing?
- 01acheru 7y agoJust a small list: - emptying supermarkets and fighting for products that finish instead of waiting for the shelves to be refurbished (with police interventions, etc.). I've seen people buy 20kg of pasta or 100 water bottles on Sunday - buying cleaning products and useless face masks for 10+ times the price - firmly believing that COVID-19 is a military plan or a disease made to kill old and sick people to lower costs - avoiding all Chinese people, Chinese food or Chinese shops (some people are afraid of goods made in China) - faking some other illness to avoid going to work And we could go on with a lot of other senseless things people are doing... Edit: formatting
- majewsky 7y ago> buying cleaning products and useless face masks for 10+ times the price > faking some other illness to avoid going to work Sounds like business as usual. /s
- 01acheru 7y agoBeside sarcasm... you are right, especially in Italy :) People always do all the things listed above, it is just that this time more people are doing them and more heavily
- tomjen3 7y agoWhy in the world would you close stores early? That just means that more people will have to shop at the same time, which would seem to increase the likelyhood of infection.