“I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nothing was going to happen “here”. The media in Europe are reassuring, politicians are reassuring, while there’s little to be reassured of. This is the English translation of a post of another ICU physician in Bergamo. Read until the end.”
(Bergamo, Italy) “After much thought about whether and what to write about what is happening to us, I felt that silence was not responsible. I will therefore try to convey to people far from our reality what we are living in Bergamo in these days of Covid-19 pandemic. I understand the need not to create panic, but when the message of the dangerousness of what is happening does not reach people I shudder. I myself watched with some amazement the reorganization of the entire hospital in the past week, when our current enemy was still in the shadows: the wards slowly “emptied”, elective activitieswere interrupted, intensive care were freed up to create as many beds as possible. All this rapid transformation brought an atmosphere of silence and surreal emptiness to the corridors of the hospital that we did not yet understand, waiting for a war that was yet to begin and that many (including me) were not so sure would ever come with such ferocity. I still remember my night call a week ago when I was waiting for the results of a swab. When I think about it, my anxiety over one possible case seems almost ridiculous and unjustified, now that I’ve seen what’s happening. Well, the situation now is dramatic to say the least. The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all its drama. One after the other the departments that had been emptied fill up at an impressive pace. The boards with the names of the patients, of different colours depending on the operating unit, are now all red and instead of surgery you see the diagnosis, which is always the damned same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia. Now, explain to me which flu virus causes such a rapid drama. And while there are still people who boast of not being afraid by ignoring directions, protesting because their normal routine is”temporarily” put in crisis, the epidemiological disaster is taking place. And there are no more surgeons, urologists, orthopedists, we are only doctors who suddenly become part of a single team to face this tsunami that has overwhelmed us. Cases are multiplying, we arrive at a rate of 15-20 admissions per day all for the same reason. The results of the swabs now come one after the other: positive, positive, positive. Suddenly the E.R. is collapsing. Reasons for the access always the same: fever and breathing difficulties, fever and cough, respiratory failure. Radiology reports always the same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia, bilateral interstitial pneumonia, bilateral interstitial pneumonia. All to be hospitalized. Someone already to be intubated and go to intensive care. For others it’s too late… Every ventilator becomes like gold: those in operating theatres that have now suspended their non-urgent activity become intensive care places that did not exist before. The staff is exhausted. I saw the tiredness on faces that didn’t know what it was despite the already exhausting workloads they had. I saw a solidarity of all of us, who never failed to go to our internist colleagues to ask “what can I do for you now?” Doctors who move beds and transfer patients, who administer therapies instead of nurses. Nurses with tears in their eyes because we can’t save everyone, and the vital parameters of several patients at the same time reveal an already marked destiny. There are no more shifts, no more hours. Social life is suspended for us. We no longer see our families for fear of infecting them. Some of us have already become infected despite the protocols. Some of our colleagues who are infected also have infected relatives and some of their relatives are already struggling between life and death. So be patient, you can’t go to the theatre, museums or the gym. Try to have pity on the myriad of old people you could exterminate. We just try to make ourselves useful. You should do the same: we influence the life and death of a few dozen people. You with yours, many more. Please share this message. We must spread the word to prevent what is happening here from happening all over Italy.” – Dr. Daniele Macchini.
“I finish by saying that I really don’t understand this war on panic. The only reason I see is mask shortages, but there’s no mask on sale anymore. We don’t have a lot of studies, but is it panic really worse than neglect and carelessness during an epidemic of this sort?”
This is a Western healthcare system in total freefall meltdown. And they’re not dealing with “just the flu”. This is some thermonuclear level of shit going down.
From WaPo (h/t CA @ WRSA):
Italy plans to restrict movement throughout the entire country, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Monday, effectively locking down some 60 million people in an unprecedented move to contain the coronavirus.The announcement came a day after Italy imposed similar restrictions on one-quarter of the country. The rapid acceleration shows that Italian policymakers have come to believe that hard-line measures are the best way to slow the virus’s spread.
We warned you this was no-sh*t serious five days ago.
Before the stock market cratered, and while the .Gov has been pumping out an endless stream of happygas.
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Propaganda. Don’t fall for it this time.
Denial , that’s become quite common.
No, panic has become quite common. Be a good little sheep now and go buy some toilet paper.
Europe has open borders. And Canada is warming at twice the rate as Alaska and Norway. Because CO2 and Viruses respect imaginary lines that people draw on maps.
There’s more going on here than meets the eye.
what does the warming of canada mean?
alaska and norway are surrounded by ocean… in a way that canada is… not.
See all that blue shit surrounding the country? It is called ocean.
Italy has a shitload of ocean around it too.
Gonna throw fake warming into a real discussion of real things that are real?
Gonna make an analogy between two things that are questionably true in a similar way.
Jim,
I know I’m not around a lot these days but how the hell are these dumb fucks allowed to get away with posting here? Where have all the dogs gone?
Idiots.
The far NW of North America (Alaska) does warm some in an Ice Age but then the Polar Jet Stream plunges through central North America down to Georgia freezing the crap out of that area. So little Climate Science has gotten by the MSM Science Iron Curtain and is known by the public that it is amazing.
New York under ice cap — Long Island is a glacial moraine — and Siberia was ice free up to or above the arctic circle.
I blame Greenland.
Not warming up in my neck of the woods in Canada. If anything, it’s getting colder over the last five years. So cold during the last summer many gardens nearly failed, including ours. 25% of the potato crop we usually get.
My daughter was to go back to work in a hospital in Wenatchee, Washington. She heard from a co worker about a man that had just been admitted with the virus. She told her of the protocols being used to in sure the virus would not spread. There were none. Nurses and doctors were allowed to be in the room with the patient and then go to other floors.
My daughter did not return to work there and filed a complaint with the hospital. They thanked her for her input. But, still changed nothing. Until the patient died. Now they have erected a tent outside to check everyone for the virus before admission. And are using the protocols an exteremely contagious killer virus deserves.
Jesus is the answer because His love informs our choices.
Blessings:-}
Italy has 3rd world like hospital bed availability: 1.x vs. 3.x for US/China and 6-11+ for France/Germany/Japan/South Korea (vs. 1,000 population)
Italy is also the oldest country in Europe
Shouldn’t be surprising that TSHT for nCOV there, given the demographic profile for nCOV mortality.
“just the flu” …. 14000
coronavirus …. 22
My wife has a triple helping Of the happy gas. She is even in denial about the panic even though she sees no toilet paper, otc meds, or hand sanitizer. I keep telling her when the panic hits about quarantined for 60 days in hope she is ok with eating squirrels and tree bark because she still sees no need to to stock up because it is all overhyped, just the flu and panic is stupid. Well, fine dear, don’t panic but don’t come complaining you are hungry and tired of eating tree bark because you refused to wake the fuck up and stock up….
Once she has lost 15 pounds then i will bring out the preps she doesn’t know about…..after she apologizes….only after.