Posted on 03/11/2020 10:54:24 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
“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 colors 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.”
The doctor urged people not to describe Covid-19 as a bad case of the flu.
“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,” he said.
“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.”
Describing every available ventilator as “gold,” Macchini said the doctors and nurses working at his side are 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
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So now we’re recycling old propagana that originated on twitter? You people have lost your fricking minds.
Easily believable, especially if you’ve ever seen or been inside the Italian Health System.
The Italian System is very modern and capable, but they are not equipped to handle this level of volume and their infrastructure is being critically taxed.
Join me in buying Italian products and drinking Italian wine during this lockdown. #wineduringlockdown is trending on Twitter. Help my countrymen any way possible.
Forza Italia!
Awww c’mon, it’s just the flu... /s
Fellow Freepers, read this diagnosis the quoted doctor laments. Understand its seriousness and behave accordingly.
“diagnosis, which is always the damned same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia.”
Italy was screwed majorly by China when they send Trojan horses all over the world.
Yes, humans are Trojan horses. I call Airplanes MIRV Trojan
There is a term for this in sports: “choking”. That is 99% of this, people panicking and choking, under slight pressure.
[So now we’re recycling old propagana that originated on twitter?]
Does the Italian corona virus taste better that the chinese variety?
If you get the china flu are you hungry again in an hour?
Here’s another in-person report, from Bergamo Italy.
https://www.facebook.com/cristina.higgins.7/posts/10157623212885189
We get it. Stay away from sneezing, coughing people with snot on their hands. The constant, unending barrage of COVID stories, encouraging panic is getting tiresome. We get it.
Is she a doctor or a hysterical women?
If you really gotta shoot messengers, you probably should hold off on shooting the doctors who are up to their eyeballs in battling the pandemic on the front lines. Might need them for awhile yet.
> This is an Italian doctor with a name and a title who was interviewed by the New York Post. <
Well said. That doctor is right in the front lines. He is not some guy who heard something from some other guy.
[If you get the china flu are you hungry again in an hour?]
There is a difference between “messengers” and inciters. Or the childish panic consumed freaks.
Gee... wonder what’s going to happen next year when the 29 million or so of us who get the typical flu freak out and head to the hospitals? Talk about overwhelmed. How many folks are showing up at a hospitals now because they just got themselves a sniffle or a cough due to seasonal allergies? How many folks are calling in sick... but really are just laying out? Everyone is in such a panic they won’t even eat lunch together where I am and there isn’t even a case of the WUFLU in the entire state!!!
[Is she a doctor or a hysterical women?]
The writer is working day and night to try to save lives in the middle of a pandemic in terrible conditions.
What are doing? (Other than claiming it’s not happening, that it’s just a hoax, I mean?)
“Is she a doctor or a hysterical women?”
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Is there an English translation of that attempt at a sentence?
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