The danish press are reporting that your italian hospitals does allready now have to make a prioritisation of who can get a respirator and who does not.
Sorry to prolong this but:
I won't reply to your points because I think i have made my points clear. But the logic you present that we should wait for "good scientific data" in the face of a factual emergency is, I am sorry, ridiculous. In any case, I welcome your optimism but I can report that the reality here in Italy is not the same. Of course I hope there is a therapy and quickly because I have a family and a job and they're both in danger now.
It's understandable. In psychology it's well known that humans are predisposed toward pessimism. I believe this has to do with evolutionary psychology. The cave man that heard a rustle in the bush and assumed it was a tiger, lived, the one who thought that it was just the wind and that everything would be fine, never made it to procreate.
The other side of the coin is that you only press the button when it no longer makes a difference. And the stakes for this game are human lives. And you work under the assumption this virus is not worth worrying about. I respect that opinion but, again, if it turns out you're wrong, people have died.
No idea. I don't know how much they smoke but the area by far most affected in Italy is also the most developed one, the richest one. It is a big stretch of flat land surrounded by mountains, where the core of the Italian economy resides (Milan and its satellite cities, the Veneto region with hundreds of small-medium size companies etc). One would imagine that the abundance of contacts with China may have been a reason, but other regions in Europe have the same level of contacts. Maybe just bad luck then. It's a relatively polluted area due to the high industrial development and the geography of the area. There is no structural deficiency in the healthcare system of that region (unlike other areas of Italy) so it is reacting in an orderly manner. The government has tried for weeks to avoid panic but faced with an overwhelming amount of new cases had to take harsh decisions (schools closed, work from home, illegal to move out of your city unless motivated, all shops closed except for necessities, etc). Now, of course if a relatively rich region of Europe has such a crisis, that sounds an alarm, doesn't it.
Curious how this area is the home of Ferrari and Alpha Tauri.
Having loads of fans queued outside the gates would seem to be more of a health issue than actually letting them in. After all, crowds are what we've been told to avoid.
