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Title: Coronavirus - Italy - DO NOT underestimate this! Warning!
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 13, 2020, 02:07:45 PM
It's been few months since I post mainly because I changed job and I've been very busy. This evening I feel it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to share this with all my good friends here since early 2000.

Please do note this is NOT a troll post: many of you maybe remember me and the fact that I always been very straightforward and sincere.  Do not underestimate this situation in the USA: you live in a great Country with economic power and above all people able to overcome any adversity.

But here in Italy the situation is far worse to what you can read in the news.

I live in a fairly small town (25.000 people) but still at the moment we do not know where to put the bodies of dead people. It's this bad, really. The church near the town hospital today was completely full with casks waiting to be sent to the cemetery.

Commercial activities are 90% closed: two weeks ago I had the idea to buy large quantities of food (approx for 60 days for me and my wife). Supermarkets are empty, no food there for the moment. We're locked in my house waiting for the situation to hopefully get better but I'm not that optimistic.

So my friends this is not meant to scare you BUT TO WARN YOU: do not underestimate this situation. Be safe, avoid if possible contact with people and start putting away food for you and your loved ones.

Stay strong my friends, a big hug from Italy.

TIL
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Royalty on March 13, 2020, 02:16:09 PM
Gimmick
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Twaddle on March 13, 2020, 02:17:24 PM
Interesting.  I just spoke with family members in Italy, and they didn't mention anything like what you said.  Nothing even remotely close to what you said.  I spoke with them 2 days ago.  
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Army of One on March 13, 2020, 02:18:55 PM
Gimmick

He's been posting for 10 years and always said he was from Italy, hell of a long game....What he is saying is the same as on Twitter from people in northern Italy.The idiots on here who cant imagine what happens when hospitals get overloaded take note
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 13, 2020, 02:19:58 PM
Gimmick

I'm no gimmick, ask Tim Wescott, ask Coach, ask Dropping Plates (if he came back), ask Johnny Falcon.

We're living a terrible situation and I just wanted to warn and maybe be helpful to the good people here.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Army of One on March 13, 2020, 02:20:25 PM
Interesting.  I just spoke with family members in Italy, and they didn't mention anything like what you said.  Nothing even remotely close to what you said.  I spoke with them 2 days ago.  

Italy is a big country.Parts of northern Italy are getting crushed. wait til it works its way south then see what your family members are saying.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 13, 2020, 02:21:26 PM
Interesting.  I just spoke with family members in Italy, and they didn't mention anything like what you said.  Nothing even remotely close to what you said.  I spoke with them 2 days ago.  

I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Obvious Gimmick on March 13, 2020, 02:22:35 PM
Thank you lifter. All the best to you and yours.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Twaddle on March 13, 2020, 02:29:22 PM
I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo.

LMAO.  My family is Piacenza, about 20 minutes from Lodi. 

They said it's pretty much business as usual.  They try not to go out much, but other than that, they said not much has changed. 

So, who's gimmick are you?   :D
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: robcguns on March 13, 2020, 02:31:50 PM
Wishing you the best.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 13, 2020, 02:39:02 PM
LMAO.  My family is Piacenza, about 20 minutes from Lodi. 

They said it's pretty much business as usual.  They try not to go out much, but other than that, they said not much has changed. 

So, who's gimmick are you?   :D

Piacenza was not red zone and it's spreading so fast it's unbeliaveble.
Anyway not problem mate, I just wanted to be of any help and I'm not a gimmick.
My God this board really changed a lot...
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Pray_4_War on March 13, 2020, 02:39:26 PM
Praying for you and all of Italy.  Be safe.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Royalty on March 13, 2020, 02:42:06 PM
Piacenza was not red zone and it's spreading so fast it's unbeliaveble.
Anyway not problem mate, I just wanted to be of any help and I'm not a gimmick.
My God this board really changed a lot...

Sounds like you were not expecting somebody with family in Italy to be posting here.


Do you care to re-phrase your bullshit initial statement?
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 13, 2020, 02:44:57 PM
Sounds like you were not expecting somebody with family in Italy to be posting here.


Do you care to re-phrase your bullshit initial statement?

No re-phrase at all. I don't need to post false news here.
Just wanted to warn my friends here about how this situation is terrible.
Anyway, no problem.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 13, 2020, 02:46:38 PM
OP post pictures of an upside down cup near carnage.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Royalty on March 13, 2020, 02:48:11 PM
OP post pictures of an upside down cup near carnage.


Good Call
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: robcguns on March 13, 2020, 02:48:20 PM
OP post pictures of an upside down cup near carnage.

Hahahha
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: IroNat on March 13, 2020, 02:49:25 PM
The Twitter post said the same things.  The hospitals get overloaded, the doctors and staff get sick, and they are making triage decisions as to who gets to use ventilators.  

If the doctors and nurses get sick who takes care of the patients?  Think about that.

You can see how this becomes a serious problem.  Much worse than a natural disaster like a hurricane.

>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage

Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately; influencing the order and priority of emergency treatment, emergency transport, or transport destination for the patient

Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Flexacon on March 13, 2020, 02:54:26 PM
Small towns usually have loads of old people . OPs post could easily be true, even the part about shelves being empty.

I went to buy some stuff today and shops in more affluent areas were sold out on things I wanted. Went to the shitty part of the borough where people don't have the money to buy in bulk and everything  was all still available. People were probably "panic" buying like OP which resulted in empty shelves
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: robcguns on March 13, 2020, 02:57:53 PM
Small towns usually have loads of old people . OPs post could easily be true, even the part about shelves being empty.

I went to buy some stuff today and shops in more affluent areas were sold out on stuff I wanted. Went to the shitty part of the borough where people don't have the money to buy in bulk and everything  was all still available. People were probably "panic" buying like OP which resulted in empty shelves

Yeah my wife hit target,roche bro’s and Shaw’s and no toilet paper,no water,no meat.Luckily I bought 40 cases of water a couple weeks ago.Only a few rolls of tp left though.Guess I’ll have to go wipe on the lawn.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Flexacon on March 13, 2020, 03:02:51 PM
Yeah my wife hit target,roche bro’s and Shaw’s and no toilet paper,no water,no meat.Luckily I bought 40 cases of water a couple weeks ago.Only a few rolls of tp left though.Guess I’ll have to go wipe on the lawn.

Go Roman. Use a sponge on a stick. Have a his and hers
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 03:51:23 PM


I live in a fairly small town (25.000 people) but still at the moment we do not know where to put the bodies of dead people.

The church near the town hospital today was completely full with casks waiting to be sent to the cemetery.





World 'class' BULLSHIT, like there is no mechanical diggers,buldozers & petrol in Italy to burn bodies or shortage of space for mass burials !.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 03:52:19 PM
Praying for you and all of Italy.  Be safe.


That's Mr.Popes job  ;)
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Twaddle on March 13, 2020, 03:54:01 PM
I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo.
LMAO.  My family is Piacenza, about 20 minutes from Lodi.  

They said it's pretty much business as usual.  They try not to go out much, but other than that, they said not much has changed.  

So, who's gimmick are you?   :D
Piacenza was not red zone and it's spreading so fast it's unbeliaveble.
Anyway not problem mate, I just wanted to be of any help and I'm not a gimmick.
My God this board really changed a lot...

Dumb fuck, you just said, "I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo."  

My family lives in Piacenza.  It is literally a 10 minute drive to Codogno and 20 minutes to Lodi.  

Also, I have never heard Italians use the word mate.

Again, who's gimmick are you?   :D
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: a_pupil on March 13, 2020, 03:58:41 PM
Dumb fuck, you just said, "I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo."  

My family lives in Piacenza.  It is literally a 10 minute drive to Codogno and 20 minutes to Lodi.  

Also, I have never heard Italians use the word mate.

Again, who's gimmick are you?   :D

it's just a flu type bug ffs. depending on how your immune system is currently, you'll either get hit hard (like you do every couple of years anyway) or get very light symptoms.

the people in danger are those who would struggle with a strong flu bug.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 03:59:35 PM
They imported cheap Chinese workers (with EU blessing) & now they must bury them  ;D


OBW, Chinese biohazards experts arrived in Rome  :D


Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Bevo on March 13, 2020, 03:59:41 PM
I'm no gimmick, ask Tim Wescott, ask Coach, ask Dropping Plates (if he came back), ask Johnny Falcon.

We're living a terrible situation and I just wanted to warn and maybe be helpful to the good people here.

Out of all of them falcon isn’t a credible source
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 04:01:30 PM
Dumb fuck, you just said, "I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo."  

My family lives in Piacenza.  It is literally a 10 minute drive to Codogno and 20 minutes to Lodi.  

Also, I have never heard Italians use the word mate.

Again, who's gimmick are you?   :D


Could be Robert DeNiro  ;D
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Flexacon on March 13, 2020, 04:01:46 PM
Dumb fuck, you just said, "I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo."  

My family lives in Piacenza.  It is literally a 10 minute drive to Codogno and 20 minutes to Lodi.  

Also, I have never heard Italians use the word mate.

Again, who's gimmick are you?   :D

Italians who know or speak to a lot of Brits end up using "mate" a lot.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Rascal full on March 13, 2020, 04:03:02 PM
It's been few months since I post mainly because I changed job and I've been very busy.

This evening I feel it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to share this with all my good friends here since early 2000.

Please do note this is NOT a troll post: many of you maybe remember me and the fact that I always been very straightforward and sincere.

Do not underestimate this situation in the USA: you live in a great Country with economic power and above all people able to overcome any adversity.

But here in Italy the situation is far worse to what you can read in the news.

I live in a fairly small town (25.000 people) but still at the moment we do not know where to put the bodies of dead people.
It's this bad, really.
The church near the town hospital today was completely full with casks waiting to be sent to the cemetery.

Commercial activities are 90% closed: two weeks ago I had the idea to buy large quantities of food (approx for 60 days for me and my wife).
Supermarkets are empty, no food there for the moment.
We're locked in my house waiting for the situation to hopefully get better but I'm not that optimistic.

So my friends this is not ment to scare you BUT TO WARN YOU: do not underestimate this situation. Be safe, avoid if possible contact with people and start putting away food for you and your loved ones.

Stay strong my friends, a big hug from Italy.
TIL

Thanks for your post and warning. Ignore dickheads like Royalty he thinks everyone is a gimmick and has been proven wrong many, many times.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 04:10:02 PM
Italians who know or speak to a lot of Brits end up using "mate" a lot.


Old Italians DON'T speak English !.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: fredrollon on March 13, 2020, 04:19:24 PM
 ;D

(https://images.tweaktown.com/news/7/1/71224_10_pornhub-giving-premium-subscriptions-to-italy-because-of-coronavirus.png)
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Royalty on March 13, 2020, 04:25:49 PM
Dumb fuck, you just said, "I'm in the red zone mate : search Codogno, Lodi, Vo Euganeo."  

My family lives in Piacenza.  It is literally a 10 minute drive to Codogno and 20 minutes to Lodi.  

Also, I have never heard Italians use the word mate.

Again, who's gimmick are you?   :D

Wouldn’t it be great if The Italian Lifter was actually Army of One 😂
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: a_pupil on March 13, 2020, 04:27:06 PM
;D

(https://images.tweaktown.com/news/7/1/71224_10_pornhub-giving-premium-subscriptions-to-italy-because-of-coronavirus.png)

lmao
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: dearth on March 13, 2020, 04:36:24 PM
(https://i.hurimg.com/i/hdn/75/0x0/5a520a08c9de3d0d607298a2.jpg)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-just-gave-worst-speech-204700719.html

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump gave the worst speech of his political career.

He appeared at the podium in the Rose Garden half an hour late. He looked and sounded exhausted. He stumbled over the word "coronavirus" in his very first sentence and seemed to struggle at a number of points throughout his address. His wonted improvisations and other departures from the script did not suggest his usual ease. He sounded very much like what one suspects he is: a tired and confused senior citizen.

The problems with Trump's speech were not limited to the manner in which it was delivered. Among other things, he ought to have secured a deal with Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats before speaking. His emphasis on the extraordinary achievements of such noted public servants as the CEO of Walmart (whose stock price is surging as I write this) did not exactly inspire confidence that the most important thing in this ordeal is public health and safety, as opposed to corporate profits. The bizarre round-table approach that brought everyone from public health officials to business leaders to the vice president (who said some genuinely touching things about the elderly) before the podium was confusing. It was nice of the president to remind us that "so many of the great sports we've gotten used to" have been put on hold. I was surprised that he did not once mention the 41 Americans who have already died of the virus until well into the question-and-answer portion of the proceedings, when he misstated the number.

It is too early to say whether the various new measures Trump announced will be effective. (Some of the obviously sensible ones — waiving interest on federal student loan debt, for example — are likely to be lost in the confusion.) I, for one, think it is still likely that much of the media response to the virus has been hysterical, and that in two months schoolchildren across the country will longingly remember the time they got three extra weeks of spring break. But that is not relevant to my assessment of Trump's performance on Friday. On arguably the biggest stage of his presidency, he not only failed to give the impression that he was in control of the situation, he looked about as ready to handle a crisis as Joe Biden is to speak calmly to elderly voters in Iowa or quote the Declaration of Independence.

Agreeing to take questions following his prepared remarks was almost certainly a mistake. In the coming days and weeks and months, Trump will have virtually unlimited opportunities to attack the legacy of the Obama administration. This was not the occasion for it. In so many other contexts, Trump's disdain for the press is defensible and even amusing. Friday it made him seem petty. And it is never a good idea for a president in the face of a crisis to tell the country that he takes "no responsibility" for anything (in this case, delays in virus testing). Taking responsibility is what the office is all about.

These impressions will not go away. They will certainly outlast the pandemic. No American will remember the day that President Trump addressed the nation on the subject of the coronavirus pandemic the way they remember Ronald Reagan's response to the Challenger disaster. If we have any lasting impressions they will be of an enervated, verbally infelicitous elderly man attempting to speak to realities that he is only half aware of ("unlike websites of the past"). The best thing he can hope for is that many of us will feel that Trump perfectly captured the national mood of alternating feverish speculation and exhaustion.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Dave D on March 13, 2020, 04:40:51 PM
(https://i.hurimg.com/i/hdn/75/0x0/5a520a08c9de3d0d607298a2.jpg)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-just-gave-worst-speech-204700719.html

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump gave the worst speech of his political career.

He appeared at the podium in the Rose Garden half an hour late. He looked and sounded exhausted. He stumbled over the word "coronavirus" in his very first sentence and seemed to struggle at a number of points throughout his address. His wonted improvisations and other departures from the script did not suggest his usual ease. He sounded very much like what one suspects he is: a tired and confused senior citizen.

The problems with Trump's speech were not limited to the manner in which it was delivered. Among other things, he ought to have secured a deal with Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats before speaking. His emphasis on the extraordinary achievements of such noted public servants as the CEO of Walmart (whose stock price is surging as I write this) did not exactly inspire confidence that the most important thing in this ordeal is public health and safety, as opposed to corporate profits. The bizarre round-table approach that brought everyone from public health officials to business leaders to the vice president (who said some genuinely touching things about the elderly) before the podium was confusing. It was nice of the president to remind us that "so many of the great sports we've gotten used to" have been put on hold. I was surprised that he did not once mention the 41 Americans who have already died of the virus until well into the question-and-answer portion of the proceedings, when he misstated the number.

It is too early to say whether the various new measures Trump announced will be effective. (Some of the obviously sensible ones — waiving interest on federal student loan debt, for example — are likely to be lost in the confusion.) I, for one, think it is still likely that much of the media response to the virus has been hysterical, and that in two months schoolchildren across the country will longingly remember the time they got three extra weeks of spring break. But that is not relevant to my assessment of Trump's performance on Friday. On arguably the biggest stage of his presidency, he not only failed to give the impression that he was in control of the situation, he looked about as ready to handle a crisis as Joe Biden is to speak calmly to elderly voters in Iowa or quote the Declaration of Independence.

Agreeing to take questions following his prepared remarks was almost certainly a mistake. In the coming days and weeks and months, Trump will have virtually unlimited opportunities to attack the legacy of the Obama administration. This was not the occasion for it. In so many other contexts, Trump's disdain for the press is defensible and even amusing. Friday it made him seem petty. And it is never a good idea for a president in the face of a crisis to tell the country that he takes "no responsibility" for anything (in this case, delays in virus testing). Taking responsibility is what the office is all about.

These impressions will not go away. They will certainly outlast the pandemic. No American will remember the day that President Trump addressed the nation on the subject of the coronavirus pandemic the way they remember Ronald Reagan's response to the Challenger disaster. If we have any lasting impressions they will be of an enervated, verbally infelicitous elderly man attempting to speak to realities that he is only half aware of ("unlike websites of the past"). The best thing he can hope for is that many of us will feel that Trump perfectly captured the national mood of alternating feverish speculation and exhaustion.

Oh things would be so wonderous if Hillary Clinton were leading us at this time!

Remember the Challengers disaster, very similar situation because the whole world shut down over a US spaceship crashed. Great comparison...

Lol who writes this crap another senior citizen?

We have age discrimination against the President.

Also how old are Bernie and Biden? Those two youngsters are a better example of youthful leadership.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Primemuscle on March 13, 2020, 04:42:28 PM
it's just a flu type bug ffs. depending on how your immune system is currently, you'll either get hit hard (like you do every couple of years anyway) or get very light symptoms.

the people in danger are those who would struggle with a strong flu bug.

I'll keep this at the forefront of my thoughts. I not only have never been hit hard with the flu, I've never had flu symptoms in my life. I do occasionally get bronchitis, like once ever few years. When I've ignored it, it developed into bronchial pneumonia which was treated with antibiotics since it is bacterial and viral.  
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Primemuscle on March 13, 2020, 05:07:40 PM
There's more than one flu virus going around. Unless you get tested, you won't know if it is the coronavirus or a different one with other symptoms.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: tommywishbone on March 13, 2020, 05:10:39 PM
Cowards. Cowards.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: IroNat on March 13, 2020, 05:14:16 PM

Also, I have never heard Italians use the word mate.

Again, who's gimmick are you?   :D

Italian pirates say mate all the time.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/The_Pirates_of_Capri.jpg)
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 05:29:51 PM
Italian pirates say mate all the time.




So what is companero in Italiano .............. :D
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: ilalin on March 13, 2020, 06:00:24 PM
Interesting.  I just spoke with family members in Italy, and they didn't mention anything like what you said.  Nothing even remotely close to what you said.  I spoke with them 2 days ago.  

twat gimmick
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 13, 2020, 06:07:37 PM
Italian pirates say mate all the time.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/The_Pirates_of_Capri.jpg)

not that many Aussie Italians say mate, and everybody else here says it constantly....
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 13, 2020, 06:08:08 PM

So what is companero in Italiano .............. :D


Campagno or campagna ?
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 13, 2020, 06:08:28 PM
;D

(https://images.tweaktown.com/news/7/1/71224_10_pornhub-giving-premium-subscriptions-to-italy-because-of-coronavirus.png)

Lol, nice one...
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: TheGrinch on March 13, 2020, 08:40:23 PM
https://www.space.com/iran-coronavirus-graves-satellite-images.html

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 13, 2020, 08:41:32 PM
Denmark closing borders and Schools

Norway closing borders and Schools


Sweden, completely open, no control at all.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 09:07:25 PM
Denmark closing borders and Schools

Norway closing borders and Schools


Sweden, completely open, no control at all.


So far Northern/Polar border with Russia is completely open  ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: TheGrinch on March 13, 2020, 09:14:19 PM
More importantly..

What are the red light district girls doing in Amsterdam to protect everyone?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: johnny1 on March 13, 2020, 09:20:22 PM
It's been few months since I post mainly because I changed job and I've been very busy. This evening I feel it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to share this with all my good friends here since early 2000.

Please do note this is NOT a troll post: many of you maybe remember me and the fact that I always been very straightforward and sincere.  Do not underestimate this situation in the USA: you live in a great Country with economic power and above all people able to overcome any adversity.

But here in Italy the situation is far worse to what you can read in the news.

I live in a fairly small town (25.000 people) but still at the moment we do not know where to put the bodies of dead people. It's this bad, really. The church near the town hospital today was completely full with casks waiting to be sent to the cemetery.

Commercial activities are 90% closed: two weeks ago I had the idea to buy large quantities of food (approx for 60 days for me and my wife). Supermarkets are empty, no food there for the moment. We're locked in my house waiting for the situation to hopefully get better but I'm not that optimistic.

So my friends this is not meant to scare you BUT TO WARN YOU: do not underestimate this situation. Be safe, avoid if possible contact with people and start putting away food for you and your loved ones.

Stay strong my friends, a big hug from Italy.

TIL
yup have friends in Sardinia who say it’s out of control (with dead people etc) stay safe bud this whole situation is getting out of hand FFS there’s mass hysteria over something as pathetic as TOILET PAPER here in Australia...punch ups hundreds of people lined up in front of the supermarkets every morning for the mad rush too the toiletries section
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: chaos on March 13, 2020, 09:21:47 PM
But did you die ???
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Schmoff on March 13, 2020, 09:24:31 PM
It's been few months since I post mainly because I changed job and I've been very busy. This evening I feel it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to share this with all my good friends here since early 2000.

Please do note this is NOT a troll post: many of you maybe remember me and the fact that I always been very straightforward and sincere.  Do not underestimate this situation in the USA: you live in a great Country with economic power and above all people able to overcome any adversity.

But here in Italy the situation is far worse to what you can read in the news.

I live in a fairly small town (25.000 people) but still at the moment we do not know where to put the bodies of dead people. It's this bad, really. The church near the town hospital today was completely full with casks waiting to be sent to the cemetery.

Commercial activities are 90% closed: two weeks ago I had the idea to buy large quantities of food (approx for 60 days for me and my wife). Supermarkets are empty, no food there for the moment. We're locked in my house waiting for the situation to hopefully get better but I'm not that optimistic.

So my friends this is not meant to scare you BUT TO WARN YOU: do not underestimate this situation. Be safe, avoid if possible contact with people and start putting away food for you and your loved ones.

Stay strong my friends, a big hug from Italy.

TIL

pray for you and your beautiful country

how's situation in Perugia? such a beautiful place, and people are very nice there.

take care of yourself italian lifter
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 13, 2020, 09:33:12 PM
More importantly..

What are the red light district girls doing in Amsterdam to protect everyone?


Honestly I was not impress with those 'window girls',  looks like something from images of Berlin 1936 !.

Totally outdated & outclassed by places in Thailand & Philipins !.

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 13, 2020, 09:42:49 PM

Honestly I was not impress with those 'window girls',  looks like something from images of Berlin 1936 !.

Totally outdated & outclassed by places in Thailand & Philipins !.




Yellow fever detected.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 13, 2020, 09:44:04 PM
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-just-gave-worst-speech-204700719.html

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump gave the worst speech of his political career.

He appeared at the podium in the Rose Garden half an hour late. He looked and sounded exhausted. He stumbled over the word "coronavirus" in his very first sentence and seemed to struggle at a number of points throughout his address. His wonted improvisations and other departures from the script did not suggest his usual ease. He sounded very much like what one suspects he is: a tired and confused senior citizen.

The problems with Trump's speech were not limited to the manner in which it was delivered. Among other things, he ought to have secured a deal with Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats before speaking. His emphasis on the extraordinary achievements of such noted public servants as the CEO of Walmart (whose stock price is surging as I write this) did not exactly inspire confidence that the most important thing in this ordeal is public health and safety, as opposed to corporate profits. The bizarre round-table approach that brought everyone from public health officials to business leaders to the vice president (who said some genuinely touching things about the elderly) before the podium was confusing. It was nice of the president to remind us that "so many of the great sports we've gotten used to" have been put on hold. I was surprised that he did not once mention the 41 Americans who have already died of the virus until well into the question-and-answer portion of the proceedings, when he misstated the number.

It is too early to say whether the various new measures Trump announced will be effective. (Some of the obviously sensible ones — waiving interest on federal student loan debt, for example — are likely to be lost in the confusion.) I, for one, think it is still likely that much of the media response to the virus has been hysterical, and that in two months schoolchildren across the country will longingly remember the time they got three extra weeks of spring break. But that is not relevant to my assessment of Trump's performance on Friday. On arguably the biggest stage of his presidency, he not only failed to give the impression that he was in control of the situation, he looked about as ready to handle a crisis as Joe Biden is to speak calmly to elderly voters in Iowa or quote the Declaration of Independence.

Agreeing to take questions following his prepared remarks was almost certainly a mistake. In the coming days and weeks and months, Trump will have virtually unlimited opportunities to attack the legacy of the Obama administration. This was not the occasion for it. In so many other contexts, Trump's disdain for the press is defensible and even amusing. Friday it made him seem petty. And it is never a good idea for a president in the face of a crisis to tell the country that he takes "no responsibility" for anything (in this case, delays in virus testing). Taking responsibility is what the office is all about.

These impressions will not go away. They will certainly outlast the pandemic. No American will remember the day that President Trump addressed the nation on the subject of the coronavirus pandemic the way they remember Ronald Reagan's response to the Challenger disaster. If we have any lasting impressions they will be of an enervated, verbally infelicitous elderly man attempting to speak to realities that he is only half aware of ("unlike websites of the past"). The best thing he can hope for is that many of us will feel that Trump perfectly captured the national mood of alternating feverish speculation and exhaustion.



TDS, non-sequitur edition.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 13, 2020, 09:44:50 PM
There's more than one flu virus going around. Unless you get tested, you won't know if it is the coronavirus or a different one with other symptoms.


That is absolutely true. There are plenty of people around with just regular cold and flu. We are at the end of the flu and cold season in the USA.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 13, 2020, 10:25:33 PM
This toilet paper thing is fucking retarded.....

I'll wipe my ass on the newspaper, who gives a shit.

How do these fucktards buying toilet paper think we survived 2million years prior to its invention. Our society truely is moronic.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Tapeworm on March 13, 2020, 10:53:57 PM
yup have friends in Sardinia who say it’s out of control (with dead people etc) stay safe bud this whole situation is getting out of hand FFS there’s mass hysteria over something as pathetic as TOILET PAPER here in Australia...punch ups hundreds of people lined up in front of the supermarkets every morning for the mad rush too the toiletries section

The chickadee at woolies advised me to line up outside before opening and then rush through the doors and down the aisle along with everyone else. They have decided to let a physical contest determine who gets toilet paper. What could possibly go wrong?

Luckily, they preempted any problems by taping up AGGRESSION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED signs around the shop.

I haven't yet attended the event to elbow grannies and fat housewives in the snouts. Not saying I won't. Who knows it might be a blast.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 13, 2020, 10:58:57 PM
The chickadee at woolies advised me to line up outside before opening and then rush through the doors and down the aisle along with everyone else. They have decided to let a physical contest determine who gets toilet paper. What could possibly go wrong?

Luckily, they preempted any problems by taping up AGGRESSION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED signs around the shop.

I haven't yet attended the event to elbow grannies and fat housewives in the snouts. Not saying I won't. Who knows it might be a blast.

Today a woman gets behind me in line at the store is carrying 3 - 8 packs of toilet paper and says to me I'm buying this for my daughter. Am I supposed to care?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 13, 2020, 11:03:07 PM
Today a woman gets behind me in line at the store is carrying 3 - 8 packs of toilet paper and says to me I'm buying this for my daughter. Am I supposed to care?


Your gaydar is stuck on. She was hitting on you.  ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 13, 2020, 11:52:42 PM

Your gaydar is stuck on. She was hitting on you.  ;D

Hmm. Hadn't thought of that. What an odd come on. I did have a woman at the post office squeeze my bicep and comment on how muscular my arms were. That seemed more like a come on...although it also seemed weird since my arms are not that big.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Royalty on March 13, 2020, 11:57:44 PM
It's been few months since I post mainly because I changed job and I've been very busy. This evening I feel it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to share this with all my good friends here since early 2000.

Please do note this is NOT a troll post: many of you maybe remember me and the fact that I always been very straightforward and sincere.  Do not underestimate this situation in the USA: you live in a great Country with economic power and above all people able to overcome any adversity.

But here in Italy the situation is far worse to what you can read in the news.

I live in a fairly small town (25.000 people) but still at the moment we do not know where to put the bodies of dead people. It's this bad, really. The church near the town hospital today was completely full with casks waiting to be sent to the cemetery.

Commercial activities are 90% closed: two weeks ago I had the idea to buy large quantities of food (approx for 60 days for me and my wife). Supermarkets are empty, no food there for the moment. We're locked in my house waiting for the situation to hopefully get better but I'm not that optimistic.

So my friends this is not meant to scare you BUT TO WARN YOU: do not underestimate this situation. Be safe, avoid if possible contact with people and start putting away food for you and your loved ones.

Stay strong my friends, a big hug from Italy.

TIL


DO YOU CARE TO REVISE YOUR BULLSHIT STATEMENT?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 14, 2020, 12:12:21 AM
This toilet paper thing is fucking retarded.....

I'll wipe my ass on the newspaper, who gives a shit.

How do these fucktards buying toilet paper think we survived 2million years prior to its invention. Our society truely is moronic.

Be sure to wash off the printer's ink.  :)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 14, 2020, 02:24:19 AM
Hmm. Hadn't thought of that. What an odd come on. I did have a woman at the post office squeeze my bicep and comment on how muscular my arms were. That seemed more like a come on...although it also seemed weird since my arms are not that big.

By Getbig standards, in the real world they're huge!
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: booty on March 14, 2020, 03:10:02 AM
Thank you for sharing Italian Lifter. I hope the best for you and your family. Stay safe and well.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: gib on March 14, 2020, 03:31:56 AM
Piacenza was not red zone and it's spreading so fast it's unbeliaveble.
Anyway not problem mate, I just wanted to be of any help and I'm not a gimmick.
My God this board really changed a lot...

Many idiots on the board for sure. But all part of the fun.

With regard to all the dead bodies piling up - let me ask you, do you even know personally one single person who has died, who was in good health prior, under the age of 70?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: booty on March 14, 2020, 03:44:31 AM
Hmm. Hadn't thought of that. What an odd come on. I did have a woman at the post office squeeze my bicep and comment on how muscular my arms were. That seemed more like a come on...although it also seemed weird since my arms are not that big.
Maybe she wanted to get quarantined with you? She brings the toilet paper and you provide your salami.  :D
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Mr.1derful on March 14, 2020, 04:20:30 AM
It's been few months since I post mainly because I changed job and I've been very busy. This evening I feel it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to share this with all my good friends here since early 2000.

Please do note this is NOT a troll post: many of you maybe remember me and the fact that I always been very straightforward and sincere.  Do not underestimate this situation in the USA: you live in a great Country with economic power and above all people able to overcome any adversity.

But here in Italy the situation is far worse to what you can read in the news.

I live in a fairly small town (25.000 people) but still at the moment we do not know where to put the bodies of dead people. It's this bad, really. The church near the town hospital today was completely full with casks waiting to be sent to the cemetery.

Commercial activities are 90% closed: two weeks ago I had the idea to buy large quantities of food (approx for 60 days for me and my wife). Supermarkets are empty, no food there for the moment. We're locked in my house waiting for the situation to hopefully get better but I'm not that optimistic.

So my friends this is not meant to scare you BUT TO WARN YOU: do not underestimate this situation. Be safe, avoid if possible contact with people and start putting away food for you and your loved ones.

Stay strong my friends, a big hug from Italy.

TIL

They are introducing the police state to the world and funneling billions of dollars under the guise of fighting Covid-19.  Welcome to the new 9/11 everyone, only this will be far worse.  Medical martial law is upon us.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 14, 2020, 04:32:32 AM
My post was not an attention whore one (me and my family have far greater concerns than a message board).
The idea was to be of any help in understanding how this can evolve if underestimated. That's all.
I post here once every few months so I don't need to become a "getbig influencer".

To the guy with family in Lodi I really wish them and to him all the best, really, no animosity from my part.
Check the online maps and see how fast is moving south, but I'm sure they already know.

The piling up of dead people is the norm now: of course they are sent to the graveyard but considering the big numbers it takes time, luckily Italy it's not Iran where they are disposed in fields outside the city.

To the question if I know someone who died of covid19 the answer it's sadly yes: I lost two close relatives (aged 64 and 70) so yes it affects more elderly people.
But I also lost three good friends (they were younger: 48, 57 and 65).
In roughly 10 to 15 days they were gone.

Dear Royalty: be safe and take care, you didn't have the opportunity to meet Carlo, Francesca and Pietro, but they were full of life and loving, decent people.
I bet if they could speak to you, they would say not underestimate the situation and avoid close contact with people.

This is from the beginning the goal of this post.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: JAGO on March 14, 2020, 04:44:25 AM
My post was not an attention whore one (me and my family have far greater concerns than a message board).
The idea was to be of any help in understanding how this can evolve if underestimated. That's all.
I post here once every few months so I don't need to become a "getbig influencer".

To the guy with family in Lodi I really wish them and to him all the best, really, no animosity from my part.
Check the online maps and see how fast is moving south, but I'm sure they already know.

The piling up of dead people is the norm now: of course they are sent to the graveyard but considering the big numbers it takes time, luckily Italy it's not Iran where they are disposed in fields outside the city.

To the question if I know someone who died of covid19 the answer it's sadly yes: I lost two close relatives (aged 64 and 70) so yes it affects more elderly people.
But I also lost three good friends (they were younger: 48, 57 and 65).
In roughly 10 to 15 days they were gone.

Dear Royalty: be safe and take care, you didn't have the opportunity to meet Carlo, Francesca and Pietro, but they were full of life and loving, decent people.
I bet if they could speak to you, they would say not underestimate the situation and avoid close contact with people.

This is from the beginning the goal of this post.


Total respect for you, sir.

This virus is very dangerous and they have no idea as to if it will become resistant to drugs or mutate as a defense to medicine.

J
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Griffith on March 14, 2020, 04:44:58 AM
My grandfather was in Torino at the time of the Spanish Flu. He said carts would come to the houses everyday to pick up the bodies.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 14, 2020, 04:50:06 AM
Total respect for you, sir.

This virus is very dangerous and they have no idea as to if it will become resistant to drugs or mutate as a defense to medicine.

J

Resistant to drugs?? There are no drugs or treatments. It has to run its course.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 14, 2020, 04:51:05 AM
My post was not an attention whore one (me and my family have far greater concerns than a message board).
The idea was to be of any help in understanding how this can evolve if underestimated. That's all.
I post here once every few months so I don't need to become a "getbig influencer".

To the guy with family in Lodi I really wish them and to him all the best, really, no animosity from my part.
Check the online maps and see how fast is moving south, but I'm sure they already know.

The piling up of dead people is the norm now: of course they are sent to the graveyard but considering the big numbers it takes time, luckily Italy it's not Iran where they are disposed in fields outside the city.

To the question if I know someone who died of covid19 the answer it's sadly yes: I lost two close relatives (aged 64 and 70) so yes it affects more elderly people.
But I also lost three good friends (they were younger: 48, 57 and 65).
In roughly 10 to 15 days they were gone.

Dear Royalty: be safe and take care, you didn't have the opportunity to meet Carlo, Francesca and Pietro, but they were full of life and loving, decent people.
I bet if they could speak to you, they would say not underestimate the situation and avoid close contact with people.

This is from the beginning the goal of this post.


piling up of the dead.... You post like this is the norm? In all of Italy it clearly isn't.  

Such hyperbolic statements aren't representative of the real situation there clearly.

If your town really is that hard hit then I wish you all the best but don't go hyping the situation like there are bodies " piling up" in all of Italy. We see the stats, 1200 deaths rip in a country of 60 million.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 14, 2020, 05:11:30 AM
From the beginning I said I'm talking about MY town
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Army of One on March 14, 2020, 05:13:51 AM
From the beginning I said I'm talking about MY town

WAH WAH IT ISNT HAPPENING TO ME OR AROUND ME SO IT DOESNT EXIST, IM AMERICAN AND IMMUNE TO EVERYTHING!!!IT WONT HAPPEN TO ME!!

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Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: JAGO on March 14, 2020, 05:19:24 AM
Resistant to drugs?? There are no drugs or treatments. It has to run its course.

As it progresses ASSHOLE!!!!

J
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 05:33:59 AM
My post was not an attention whore one (me and my family have far greater concerns than a message board).
The idea was to be of any help in understanding how this can evolve if underestimated. That's all.
I post here once every few months so I don't need to become a "getbig influencer".

To the guy with family in Lodi I really wish them and to him all the best, really, no animosity from my part.
Check the online maps and see how fast is moving south, but I'm sure they already know.

The piling up of dead people is the norm now: of course they are sent to the graveyard but considering the big numbers it takes time, luckily Italy it's not Iran where they are disposed in fields outside the city.

To the question if I know someone who died of covid19 the answer it's sadly yes: I lost two close relatives (aged 64 and 70) so yes it affects more elderly people.
But I also lost three good friends (they were younger: 48, 57 and 65).
In roughly 10 to 15 days they were gone.


Dear Royalty: be safe and take care, you didn't have the opportunity to meet Carlo, Francesca and Pietro, but they were full of life and loving, decent people.
I bet if they could speak to you, they would say not underestimate the situation and avoid close contact with people.

This is from the beginning the goal of this post.


Lets do some basic math.  As reported yesterday, the death toll in Italy was 1266.  Lets assume yesterday was a terrible day, and that number doubles, bringing the total to 2532 total deaths.  The population of Italy is around 60.5 million, not including all the illegals.  

So, 2532 deaths out of a population of 60,500,000.  That means, 1 out of 25,000 have died in Italy.  

And you're telling us that you personally know 5 people who have died from Covid-19?  

Seems legit.   ::)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Army of One on March 14, 2020, 05:40:25 AM
Lets do some basic math.  As reported yesterday, the death toll in Italy was 1266.  Lets assume yesterday was a terrible day, and that number doubles, bringing the total to 2532 total deaths.  The population of Italy is around 60.5 million, not including all the illegals.  

So, 2532 deaths out of a population of 60,500,500.  That means, 1 out of 25,000 have died in Italy.  

And you're telling us that you personally know 5 people who have died from Covid-19?  

Seems legit.   ::)

Use your brain, do you really think every town has testing kits or the manpower to test?The virus hits in clusters before it mass spreads.Italy is overloaded in parts of the North, if it's a choice between using your resources to test or use your resources to try and save the lives of the dying, then it's all going to go on the dying.If elderly people are presenting themselves to you in mass numbers, all with the same symptoms, and all in very severe condition, why bother testing when you know what most of the cases are.At that point you put them on ICU if their own lungs can't help them, if there are even any ICU left,or put them on oxygen to help them breathe, provide IV if too dehydrated, medicines to lower fever.Apart from that there isn't really anything they can do.Even hospital psychiatrists etc in the hardest hit parts are getting their hands dirty.When places are getting hit as hard as northern Italy is now, you can throw the official numbers out of the window.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on March 14, 2020, 05:44:24 AM
My post was not an attention whore one (me and my family have far greater concerns than a message board).
The idea was to be of any help in understanding how this can evolve if underestimated. That's all.
I post here once every few months so I don't need to become a "getbig influencer".

To the guy with family in Lodi I really wish them and to him all the best, really, no animosity from my part.
Check the online maps and see how fast is moving south, but I'm sure they already know.

The piling up of dead people is the norm now: of course they are sent to the graveyard but considering the big numbers it takes time, luckily Italy it's not Iran where they are disposed in fields outside the city.

To the question if I know someone who died of covid19 the answer it's sadly yes: I lost two close relatives (aged 64 and 70) so yes it affects more elderly people.
But I also lost three good friends (they were younger: 48, 57 and 65).
In roughly 10 to 15 days they were gone.

Dear Royalty: be safe and take care, you didn't have the opportunity to meet Carlo, Francesca and Pietro, but they were full of life and loving, decent people.
I bet if they could speak to you, they would say not underestimate the situation and avoid close contact with people.

This is from the beginning the goal of this post.


Show us the mountains of corpses!!
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on March 14, 2020, 05:45:30 AM
Use your brain, do you really think every town has testing kits or the manpower to test?Italy is overloaded, if it's a choice between using your resources to test or use your resources to try and save the lives of the dying, then it's all going to go on the dying.If elderly people are presenting themselves to you in mass numbers, all with the same symptoms, and all in very severe condition, why bother testing when you know what most of the cases are.At that point you put them on ICU if their own lungs can't help them, if there are even any ICU left,or put them on oxygen to help them breathe, provide IV if too dehydrated, medicines to lower fever.Apart from that there isn't really anything they can do.Even hospital psychiatrists etc in the hardest hit parts are getting their hands dirty.When places are getting hit as hard as northern Italy is now, you can throw the official numbers out of the window.

You're quickly becoming an annoying kunt. Take a valium and get some sleep.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 05:47:07 AM
Use your brain, do you really think every town has testing kits or the manpower to test?Italy is overloaded, if it's a choice between using your resources to test or use your resources to try and save the lives of the dying, then it's all going to go on the dying.If elderly people are presenting themselves to you in mass numbers, all with the same symptoms, and all in very severe condition, why bother testing when you know what most of the cases are.At that point you put them on ICU if their own lungs can't help them, if there are even any ICU left,or put them on oxygen to help them breathe, provide IV if too dehydrated, medicines to lower fever.Apart from that there isn't really anything they can do.Even hospital psychiatrists etc in the hardest hit parts are getting their hands dirty.When places are getting hit as hard as northern Italy is now, you can throw the official numbers out of the window.

Are you asking a question, making a statement, or just blathering?   ???

Seriously, your post makes not sense, just a bunch of rambling. 
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: The Italian Lifter on March 14, 2020, 05:51:45 AM
I don't understand your animosity, Twaddle.
What would be the reason to lie? I still don't get it.
I guess it's more your problem than mine.

Anyway, I did what my conscience told me: warn people who are not prepared.

If at least one of you understand the real situation (remember a small town not NY) I'll be glad.

I guess the thread can be closed, I don't need to be "popular " or pity, maybe I was hoping for a little more respect for those who have lost part of their family, but if life already didn't teach you this I can't hope to change things.
There's nothing more to add.


Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Army of One on March 14, 2020, 05:53:59 AM
You're quickly becoming an annoying kunt. Take a valium and get some sleep.

Are you asking a question, making a statement, or just blathering?   ???

Seriously, your post makes not sense, just a bunch of rambling.  

Try and address the facts rather than deflecting because you know you are wrong.The virus is hitting in clusters and parts of Northern Italy are getting decimated, the true numbers are not represented in the statistics as they simply do not have the testing equipment or manpower to test.This idea that just because one part of Italy isnt bad then no part of Italy is bad, is akin to a baby thinking his mother doesn't exist anymore when she walks out the room and he cannot see her.Slamming an Italian guy, who is telling you he is losing family and friends, because it doesn't fit in to your narrow and incorrect worldview, is a new low for getbig.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 05:54:41 AM
I don't understand your animosity, Twaddle.
What would be the reason to lie? I still don't get it.
I guess it's more your problem than mine.

Anyway, I did what my conscience told me: warn people who are not prepared.

If at least one of you understand the real situation (remember a small town not NY) I'll be glad.

I guess the thread can be closed, I don't need to be "popular " or pity, maybe I was hoping for a little more respect for those who have lost part of their family, but if life already didn't teach you this I can't hope to change things.
There's nothing more to add.

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Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on March 14, 2020, 05:56:49 AM
Try and address the facts rather than deflecting because you know you are wrong.The virus is hitting in clusters and parts of Northern Italy are getting decimated, the true numbers are not represented in the statistics as they simply do not have the testing equipment or manpower to test.This idea that just because one part of Italy isnt bad then no part of Italy is bad, is akin to a baby thinking his mother doesn't exist anymore when she walks out the room and he cannot see her.Slamming an Italian guy, who is telling you he is losing family and friends, because it doesn't fit in to your narrow and incorrect worldview, is a new low for getbig.

Show us the bodies!
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 05:58:32 AM
Try and address the facts rather than deflecting because you know you are wrong.The virus is hitting in clusters and parts of Northern Italy are getting decimated, the true numbers are not represented in the statistics as they simply do not have the testing equipment or manpower to test.This idea that just because one part of Italy isnt bad then no part of Italy is bad, is akin to a baby thinking his mother doesn't exist anymore when she walks out the room and he cannot see her.

I am using facts.  You must have missed the part, where I stated that I have family that lives in Piacenza (Northern Italy).  I spoke with them 3 days ago.  They mentioned nothing of dead bodies piling up, crisis, etc.  
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Army of One on March 14, 2020, 06:00:01 AM
I am using facts.  You must have missed the part, where I stated that I have family that lives in Piacenza (Northern Italy).  I spoke with them 3 days ago.  They mentioned nothing of dead bodies piling up, crisis, etc.  

CLUSTERS, the calm before the storm.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: che on March 14, 2020, 06:03:09 AM


They said it's pretty much business as usual. 

I think your family is lying to you
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on March 14, 2020, 06:04:25 AM
CLUSTERS, the calm before the storm.

Show us the bodies.
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: gmflex on March 14, 2020, 06:10:29 AM
(https://i.hurimg.com/i/hdn/75/0x0/5a520a08c9de3d0d607298a2.jpg)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-just-gave-worst-speech-204700719.html

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump gave the worst speech of his political career.

He appeared at the podium in the Rose Garden half an hour late. He looked and sounded exhausted. He stumbled over the word "coronavirus" in his very first sentence and seemed to struggle at a number of points throughout his address. His wonted improvisations and other departures from the script did not suggest his usual ease. He sounded very much like what one suspects he is: a tired and confused senior citizen.

The problems with Trump's speech were not limited to the manner in which it was delivered. Among other things, he ought to have secured a deal with Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats before speaking. His emphasis on the extraordinary achievements of such noted public servants as the CEO of Walmart (whose stock price is surging as I write this) did not exactly inspire confidence that the most important thing in this ordeal is public health and safety, as opposed to corporate profits. The bizarre round-table approach that brought everyone from public health officials to business leaders to the vice president (who said some genuinely touching things about the elderly) before the podium was confusing. It was nice of the president to remind us that "so many of the great sports we've gotten used to" have been put on hold. I was surprised that he did not once mention the 41 Americans who have already died of the virus until well into the question-and-answer portion of the proceedings, when he misstated the number.

It is too early to say whether the various new measures Trump announced will be effective. (Some of the obviously sensible ones — waiving interest on federal student loan debt, for example — are likely to be lost in the confusion.) I, for one, think it is still likely that much of the media response to the virus has been hysterical, and that in two months schoolchildren across the country will longingly remember the time they got three extra weeks of spring break. But that is not relevant to my assessment of Trump's performance on Friday. On arguably the biggest stage of his presidency, he not only failed to give the impression that he was in control of the situation, he looked about as ready to handle a crisis as Joe Biden is to speak calmly to elderly voters in Iowa or quote the Declaration of Independence.

Agreeing to take questions following his prepared remarks was almost certainly a mistake. In the coming days and weeks and months, Trump will have virtually unlimited opportunities to attack the legacy of the Obama administration. This was not the occasion for it. In so many other contexts, Trump's disdain for the press is defensible and even amusing. Friday it made him seem petty. And it is never a good idea for a president in the face of a crisis to tell the country that he takes "no responsibility" for anything (in this case, delays in virus testing). Taking responsibility is what the office is all about.

These impressions will not go away. They will certainly outlast the pandemic. No American will remember the day that President Trump addressed the nation on the subject of the coronavirus pandemic the way they remember Ronald Reagan's response to the Challenger disaster. If we have any lasting impressions they will be of an enervated, verbally infelicitous elderly man attempting to speak to realities that he is only half aware of ("unlike websites of the past"). The best thing he can hope for is that many of us will feel that Trump perfectly captured the national mood of alternating feverish speculation and exhaustion.

 ;D  ;D

Trump nut huggers
Will have a meltdown with this post..

Carry on..

 ;D   ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: gmflex on March 14, 2020, 06:13:54 AM
This toilet paper thing is fucking retarded.....

I'll wipe my ass on the newspaper, who gives a shit.

How do these fucktards buying toilet paper think we survived 2million years prior to its invention. Our society truely is moronic.


 ;D   ;D

LMAO..
Well said Sir..

 ;D   ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: FitnessFrenzy on March 14, 2020, 06:17:30 AM
Show us the mountains of corpses!!

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/middleeast/iran-coronavirus-mass-graves-intl/index.html
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 06:24:47 AM
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/middleeast/iran-coronavirus-mass-graves-intl/index.html

Leave it to CNN to bring the fake news.   :D

Article states, "The satellite images from March 1 and March 8, put out by Maxar Technologies, appear to show an increase in activity inside the Behesht-e Masoumeh cemetery in Qom."

The satellite images are actually a comparison of 10-29-2019 to 03-01-2020.   
Title: Re: COVID19 HERE IN ITALY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS EMERGENCY
Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 14, 2020, 07:43:47 AM
;D  ;D

Trump nut huggers
Will have a meltdown with this post..

Carry on..

 ;D   ;D


The only positive post I've ever seen on a Dearth TDS post. Dearth gimmick owner outed.  ;)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Dave D on March 14, 2020, 07:58:37 AM
Use your brain, do you really think every town has testing kits or the manpower to test?The virus hits in clusters before it mass spreads.Italy is overloaded in parts of the North, if it's a choice between using your resources to test or use your resources to try and save the lives of the dying, then it's all going to go on the dying.If elderly people are presenting themselves to you in mass numbers, all with the same symptoms, and all in very severe condition, why bother testing when you know what most of the cases are.At that point you put them on ICU if their own lungs can't help them, if there are even any ICU left,or put them on oxygen to help them breathe, provide IV if too dehydrated, medicines to lower fever.Apart from that there isn't really anything they can do.Even hospital psychiatrists etc in the hardest hit parts are getting their hands dirty.When places are getting hit as hard as northern Italy is now, you can throw the official numbers out of the window.

We have a pandemic, where hospitals and health officials are obligated to report accurate accounts for this disease but you say they cant do this with any sort of accuracy BUT it’s safe to ASSUME any deaths during this time period are related to the disease because the numbers are inaccurate.....


Got it.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: tommywishbone on March 14, 2020, 07:59:03 AM
Use your brain, do you really think every town has testing kits or the manpower to test?The virus hits in clusters before it mass spreads.Italy is overloaded in parts of the North, if it's a choice between using your resources to test or use your resources to try and save the lives of the dying, then it's all going to go on the dying.If elderly people are presenting themselves to you in mass numbers, all with the same symptoms, and all in very severe condition, why bother testing when you know what most of the cases are.At that point you put them on ICU if their own lungs can't help them, if there are even any ICU left,or put them on oxygen to help them breathe, provide IV if too dehydrated, medicines to lower fever.Apart from that there isn't really anything they can do.Even hospital psychiatrists etc in the hardest hit parts are getting their hands dirty.When places are getting hit as hard as northern Italy is now, you can throw the official numbers out of the window.

Calm down iron brother.  Your thoughts are unbalanced. Be like Fonzie... Be cool.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: gib on March 14, 2020, 08:02:06 AM
CLUSTERS, the calm before the storm.

True.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 14, 2020, 08:05:32 AM
I have to side with Twaddle on this one.

Italy is not some banana republic, if it was so bad we would hear about it by now.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: kreator on March 14, 2020, 08:12:11 AM
How are Dave Palumbo‘s friends in Italy doing? The word is he‘s friends with a lot of people
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 14, 2020, 08:13:49 AM
How are Dave Palumbo‘s friends in Italy doing? The word is he‘s friends with a lot of people

Isn't he releasing a video every 5 minutes or so, have he talked about how worried he is about his italian relatives yet?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 14, 2020, 08:14:49 AM
I have to side with Twaddle on this one.

Italy is not some banana republic, if it was so bad we would hear about it by now.

Coronavirus has turned my beloved Italy into a wasteland — learn our lessons before it's too late

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/12/coronavirus-has-turned-beloved-home-wasteland-hope-uk-learns/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/12/coronavirus-has-turned-beloved-home-wasteland-hope-uk-learns/)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 14, 2020, 08:18:37 AM
That's a locked article, but from what I can read he's crying because the streets are empty.

Thats to be expected from an italian - all they do is visiting restaurants, church and buying clothes!

That's their definition of hell right there - not being able to continue with their lifestyle.

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Dave D on March 14, 2020, 08:25:26 AM
Coronavirus has turned my beloved Italy into a wasteland — learn our lessons before it's too late

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/12/coronavirus-has-turned-beloved-home-wasteland-hope-uk-learns/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/12/coronavirus-has-turned-beloved-home-wasteland-hope-uk-learns/)

Kwon what are the death numbers the author refers to?

Why does Italy look like a wasteland because of empty streets?

We know it’s bad there, that the country is on lockdown, but are bodies really piling up?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on March 14, 2020, 08:39:58 AM

 ;D   ;D

LMAO..
Well said Sir..

 ;D   ;D

We were discussing Italy moron. And I still dont see pics of the piles of bodies that are supposed to be everywhere
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: gmflex on March 14, 2020, 09:01:36 AM
 ;D   ;D

First meltdown of the day..

 ;D.  ;D

Carry on butter cup...

  ;D   ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: chaos on March 14, 2020, 09:06:18 AM
WAH WAH IT ISNT HAPPENING TO ME OR AROUND ME SO IT DOESNT EXIST, IM AMERICAN AND IMMUNE TO EVERYTHING!!!IT WONT HAPPEN TO ME!!

(https://www.iradio.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/man-with-fingers-in-ears.jpg)


How high are the bodies stacking up in your neighborhood?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: gmflex on March 14, 2020, 09:14:06 AM

 ;D  ;D


https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/opinions/italys-coronavirus-nightmare-life-in-rural-iowa-madigan/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/opinions/italys-coronavirus-nightmare-life-in-rural-iowa-madigan/index.html)


 ;D   ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 09:34:36 AM
Coronavirus has turned my beloved Italy into a wasteland — learn our lessons before it's too late

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/12/coronavirus-has-turned-beloved-home-wasteland-hope-uk-learns/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/12/coronavirus-has-turned-beloved-home-wasteland-hope-uk-learns/)

 :D

The worst thing to happen to Italy, since WW2.  It must be bad.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/The_British_Army_in_Italy_1945_NA24308.jpg)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: fredrollon on March 14, 2020, 09:35:23 AM
The current offical global death toll from Coronavirus is under 6000 ,mostly the old and the weak.
For a little perspective , in Denmark, alone,over double that(mostly the young and the healthy) died in the Spanish Flu. And it's said  Denmark got off comparatively lightly in that pandemic.


"During the 1918 influenza pandemic, hospitals offered very few treatments, and many patients were crowded into shared wards where dozens or even hundreds of other people lay coughing, separated from one another by only a flimsy cotton sheet.

Victor C. Vaughan, a prominent physician and dean of the medical school at the University of Michigan, left an eyewitness account of the carnage at a field hospital. “I see hundreds of young, stalwart men in the uniform of their country coming into the wards of the hospital in groups of ten or more,” he wrote in his memoir. “They are placed on the cots until every bed is full and yet others crowd in. The faces soon wear a bluish cast; a distressing cough brings up the blood-stained sputum. In the morning the dead bodies are stacked about the morgue like cord wood.”

Vaughan was humbled by a plague he could not treat. “The deadly influenza,” he concluded, “demonstrated the inferiority of human interventions in the destruction of human life.”"


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/were-not-facing-second-spanish-flu/607354/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/were-not-facing-second-spanish-flu/607354/)


(https://www.cairn-int.info/loadimg.php?FILE=E_POPU/E_POPU_402/E_POPU_402_0269/POPE_idPAS_D_ISBN_pu2004-02s_sa03_art03_img003.jpg)

https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPU_402_0269--can-the-spanish-influenza-pandemic-of-19.htm (https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPU_402_0269--can-the-spanish-influenza-pandemic-of-19.htm)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Mr.1derful on March 14, 2020, 09:38:30 AM
Psyop.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 14, 2020, 09:49:50 AM
How come no one in the U.S. prison system has coronavirus?

Aren’t the prisoners tested, or are they tested but the results aren’t reported?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 14, 2020, 09:52:38 AM
How come no one in the U.S. prison system has coronavirus?

Aren’t the prisoners tested, or are they tested but the results aren’t reported?

Let Primemucus visit all the prisons and all of them will be afflicted w Corona (among other things)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: el numero uno on March 14, 2020, 10:01:29 AM
Lets do some basic math.  As reported yesterday, the death toll in Italy was 1266.  Lets assume yesterday was a terrible day, and that number doubles, bringing the total to 2532 total deaths.  The population of Italy is around 60.5 million, not including all the illegals.  

So, 2532 deaths out of a population of 60,500,000.  That means, 1 out of 25,000 have died in Italy.  

And you're telling us that you personally know 5 people who have died from Covid-19?  

Seems legit.   ::)

You're assuming that the number of deaths are evenly spread among age groups and locations.

Isn't Italian Lifter in his 50's - 60's?

Mortality rate for older people is estimated to be higher than 10% according to some articles. And he claims to live in a red zone, so I don't find hard to belive his claim about knowing people who've died from coronavirus.

A back-of-the-envelope calculation tells me that if you know 1000 people, from which 5% is infected, and the mortality rate is 10%, you expect 5 of them to die.


Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 14, 2020, 10:05:59 AM
Let Primemucus visit all the prisons and all of them will be afflicted w Corona (among other things)

Don’t ever respond to one of my posts with a Primepedo reference again.

I will buy a flame thrower and hunt you and your loved ones down. You’ve been warned.

Carry on.   😁
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 10:08:00 AM
You're assuming that the number of deaths are evenly spread among age groups and locations.

Isn't Italian Lifter in his 50's - 60's?

Mortality rate for older people is estimated to be higher than 10% according to some articles. And he claims to live in a red zone, so I don't find hard to belive his claim about knowing people who've died from coronavirus.

A back-of-the-envelope calculation tells me that if you know 1000 people, from which 5% is infected, and the mortality rate is 10%, you expect 5 of them to die.

Sorry, but your back of the envelope calculations suck.  There is not a 5% infection rate, and there is not a 10% mortality rate. 

HTH
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: ProudVirgin69 on March 14, 2020, 10:11:01 AM
How come no one in the U.S. prison system has coronavirus?

Aren’t the prisoners tested, or are they tested but the results aren’t reported?

Less interaction with the public at large, I'd imagine
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 14, 2020, 10:11:41 AM
Less interaction with the public at large, I'd imagine

Yeah, they've been and are locked up.


You need someone afflicted to enter those prisons and things will get rolling.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: pamith on March 14, 2020, 10:14:23 AM
Have faith in Jesus!
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Twaddle on March 14, 2020, 10:16:45 AM
Have faith in Jesus!
(https://www.ghettoredhot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/jesus-senior.jpg)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: pamith on March 14, 2020, 10:18:34 AM
(https://www.ghettoredhot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/jesus-senior.jpg)
Bro...
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 14, 2020, 10:19:52 AM
(https://www.ghettoredhot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/jesus-senior.jpg)
Bro...
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 14, 2020, 10:22:19 AM
Yeah, they've been and are locked up.


You need someone afflicted to enter those prisons and things will get rolling.

So how do we get the strongest strain of Coronavirus into the soggy old queer population of West Linn, Oregon ?

We need to work on this.

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: el numero uno on March 14, 2020, 10:26:45 AM
Sorry, but your back of the envelope calculations suck.  There is not a 5% infection rate, and there is not a 10% mortality rate. 

HTH

You totally missed my point about ignoring age groups and location.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 14, 2020, 10:28:53 AM
Less interaction with the public at large, I'd imagine

Obviously the solution then is to put all the people on TV screaming about the dangers of coronavirus in prison.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: el numero uno on March 14, 2020, 11:35:25 AM
Sorry, but your back of the envelope calculations suck.  There is not a 5% infection rate, and there is not a 10% mortality rate. 

HTH

To give you some perspective, imagine these two scenarios.

a) You choose at random a +50 years old men living in Africa. The chance of him living with HIV is close to 15%.

b) You take a random person out of the US population. Around 1 million people in the US live with HIV. That's 1 in 327, or 0.3%.

a is 50 times higher than b. That's an increase of 4900%

So, you see, things like age group and location matters a lot. Just like with HIV, coronavirus deaths are not evenly spread among the whole population.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Notomorrow on March 14, 2020, 12:46:17 PM
For philosophy fans, Corona is following a traditional Hegelian dialectic, a thesis, antithesis and eventually a synthesis of truth. The thesis is that the Corona virus is a a deadly pandemic we should all be terrified of. The antithesis is that it's another flu, isn't that deadly if you get it, and panic and fear is unreasonably scaring people.The synthesis will be a mixture of the two positions and we will all integrate those two positions into some common reality about the virus.


By the way, you think it's safe to train at Golds Venice right now? Gyms are the worst especially with all the international bodybuilders from various shows overseas. I am going to do some pull ups and chin ups at the beach next workout, which is probably a good variation to training anyway.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: chaos on March 14, 2020, 01:10:04 PM
Where are the bodies?!?!!
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 14, 2020, 01:31:33 PM
Maybe she wanted to get quarantined with you? She brings the toilet paper and you provide your salami.  :D

I think you mean Polish sausage.  :)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 14, 2020, 01:35:58 PM
Where are the bodies?!?!!



LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 14, 2020, 01:58:01 PM
Where are the bodies?!?!!

Corona burial pits so vast they're visible from Nibir

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: chaos on March 14, 2020, 01:58:11 PM


LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 14, 2020, 02:03:46 PM

Yellow fever detected.

1st travel extensively , then talk !.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bevo on March 14, 2020, 02:09:07 PM
I think you mean Polish sausage.  :)

It’s most likely soggy
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bevo on March 14, 2020, 02:09:48 PM
🇩🇪 > 🇮🇹
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 14, 2020, 02:20:05 PM
It’s most likely soggy

One thing's for sure. You'll never know.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bevo on March 15, 2020, 12:28:56 AM
One thing's for sure. You'll never know.

Will tbombz find out?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 15, 2020, 12:34:40 AM
Will tbombz find out?

Unlikely. We've never met.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: gib on March 15, 2020, 01:23:03 AM
My post was not an attention whore one (me and my family have far greater concerns than a message board).
The idea was to be of any help in understanding how this can evolve if underestimated. That's all.
I post here once every few months so I don't need to become a "getbig influencer".

To the guy with family in Lodi I really wish them and to him all the best, really, no animosity from my part.
Check the online maps and see how fast is moving south, but I'm sure they already know.

The piling up of dead people is the norm now: of course they are sent to the graveyard but considering the big numbers it takes time, luckily Italy it's not Iran where they are disposed in fields outside the city.

To the question if I know someone who died of covid19 the answer it's sadly yes: I lost two close relatives (aged 64 and 70) so yes it affects more elderly people.
But I also lost three good friends (they were younger: 48, 57 and 65).
In roughly 10 to 15 days they were gone.

Dear Royalty: be safe and take care, you didn't have the opportunity to meet Carlo, Francesca and Pietro, but they were full of life and loving, decent people.
I bet if they could speak to you, they would say not underestimate the situation and avoid close contact with people.

This is from the beginning the goal of this post.


Wow. Very sorry for these deaths :(

Can I ask, were any of those you knew who died smokers or already in poor health?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 15, 2020, 02:09:01 AM
You're quickly becoming an annoying kunt. Take a valium and get some sleep.

Obsessed...

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Army of One on March 15, 2020, 08:24:32 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8113675/Italian-town-centre-coronavirus-pandemic-holding-funeral-30-minutes.html
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: SF1900 on March 15, 2020, 08:35:30 AM
I wonder if Nibiru is affected by all of this?!?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on March 15, 2020, 09:10:59 AM
Corona burial pits so vast they're visible from Nibir

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/)

Empty. Means nothing.
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Post by: chaos on March 15, 2020, 09:20:06 AM
This tells me Italy is a filthy and unsanitary place to be.
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Post by: che on March 15, 2020, 09:21:48 AM
This tells me Italy is a filthy and unsanitary place to be.
Where are the bodies?!?!!
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Post by: chaos on March 15, 2020, 09:31:12 AM
Where are the bodies?!?!!
They must be zombies by now!!
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Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 15, 2020, 09:32:37 AM
Unlikely. We've never met.

In other words....if TAids would meet up with him he could bang his soggy old bored out ass black and blue.

Disgusting pervert.
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Post by: kreator on March 15, 2020, 09:36:40 AM
This tells me Italy is a filthy and unsanitary place to be.

Never liked Italians, they always travel in packs and are annoyingly loud
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Post by: Thin Lizzy on March 15, 2020, 09:37:14 AM


By the way, you think it's safe to train at Golds Venice right now? Gyms are the worst especially with all the international bodybuilders from various shows overseas. I am going to do some pull ups and chin ups at the beach next workout, which is probably a good variation to training anyway.

You probably won’t have to wait for a bench.😎
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 15, 2020, 09:38:37 AM
Never liked Italians Americans, they always travel in packs and are annoyingly loud

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Post by: Thin Lizzy on March 15, 2020, 09:44:07 AM
They are introducing the police state to the world and funneling billions of dollars under the guise of fighting Covid-19.  Welcome to the new 9/11 everyone, only this will be far worse.  Medical martial law is upon us.

Governments always use panics to seize greater control. This speaks to not getting tested. How can you be sure these tests are accurate? During AIDS there were a number of ways to trigger false positives.
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Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 15, 2020, 09:45:56 AM
Never liked Italians, they always travel in packs and are annoyingly loud

It would be a lot better if they were quiet, well mannered, and polite like urban African Americans.
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Post by: TonyAlva on March 15, 2020, 09:51:27 AM
Unlikely. We've never met.

 I'm calling "shenanigans" on this statement
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Post by: JustPlaneJane on March 15, 2020, 09:58:52 AM
I'm calling "shenanigans" on this statement

But....are you sexual ?
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Post by: pamith on March 15, 2020, 01:18:03 PM
I believe everything happens for a reason, I believe Italy is going through a revival, a religious revival, thanks to the corona virus
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 16, 2020, 02:31:23 AM
Death rate in italy now 6,6%

"In Bergamo, the worst-affected province in Italy with 1,815 cases and 142 victims, Corriere della Sera reported that the church of Ognissanti has been transformed into a huge mortuary chamber, with at least 40 coffins with corpses waiting to be cremated."

"Until last Thursday, the crematorium - the only one in the province - still worked normal hours, but the municipality has ordered that it must work 24 hours a day.

But even it is not possible to keep pace with the terrible mortality of the virus: 146 people in five days."
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Post by: fredrollon on March 16, 2020, 07:26:43 AM
The latest offical Coronavirus figures, in South Korea. They are as accurate and comprehensive, as you're likely to get.
 Scroll down for Table 2 ,which shows the distribution of cases by sex and age groups and the fatality rate for each group.

https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030&act=view&list_no=366557&tag=&nPage=1 (https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030&act=view&list_no=366557&tag=&nPage=1)

The overall fatality rate is 0.92% , but it's 9.51% for 80 and above and 5.33% for age 70-79.
Doing a bit of calculation 53/788 x 100%  or 6.72% is the fatality rate for everyone aged 70+ for the disease.

It's 1.38% for the 60-69 age group and 0.38% for the 50-59 age group.

It's not really been a threat, for children and adults below the age of 50, so far.
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Post by: French on March 16, 2020, 09:31:35 AM
It's mainly small villages, most are old and so the rate is higher
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 16, 2020, 10:58:12 AM
Doesn't everybody still live with their parents and grandparents in Italy, no wonder it spreads
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Post by: Army of One on March 16, 2020, 11:02:45 AM
The latest offical Coronavirus figures, in South Korea. They are as accurate and comprehensive, as you're likely to get.
 Scroll down for Table 2 ,which shows the distribution of cases by sex and age groups and the fatality rate for each group.

https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030&act=view&list_no=366557&tag=&nPage=1 (https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030&act=view&list_no=366557&tag=&nPage=1)

The ooverall fatality rate is 0.92% , but it's 9.51% for 80 and above and 5.33% for age 70-79.
Doing a bit of calculation 53/788 x 100%  or 6.72% is the fatality rate for everyone aged 70+ for the disease.

It's 1.38% for the 60-69 age group and 0.38% for the 50-59 age group.

It's not really been a threat, for children and adults below the age of 50, so far.

Cant really judge, south korea is doing something no other country can really do, test everyone and monitor most of them before symptoms even start, they also have the best healthcare in the world.
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Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 16, 2020, 11:36:26 PM
Doesn't everybody still live with their parents and grandparents in Italy, no wonder it spreads


Momma-mia, poppa-pia, corona-via.
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Post by: honest on March 16, 2020, 11:48:05 PM
Cant really judge, south korea is doing something no other country can really do, test everyone and monitor most of them before symptoms even start, they also have the best healthcare in the world.

theres a cure check the other thread, i dont like repeating myself, thats the point of difference here and in Japan.

The worlds not ending.
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Post by: French on March 17, 2020, 01:41:35 AM
you don't realize..
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Post by: harmankardon1 on March 17, 2020, 04:31:58 AM
It's mainly small villages, most are old and so the rate is higher


Yes this^

Large number of aged population in Italy. Highest number of over 65's in Europe.
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Post by: Thin Lizzy on March 17, 2020, 04:49:57 AM
The latest offical Coronavirus figures, in South Korea. They are as accurate and comprehensive, as you're likely to get.
 Scroll down for Table 2 ,which shows the distribution of cases by sex and age groups and the fatality rate for each group.

https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030&act=view&list_no=366557&tag=&nPage=1 (https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030&act=view&list_no=366557&tag=&nPage=1)

The overall fatality rate is 0.92% , but it's 9.51% for 80 and above and 5.33% for age 70-79.
Doing a bit of calculation 53/788 x 100%  or 6.72% is the fatality rate for everyone aged 70+ for the disease.

It's 1.38% for the 60-69 age group and 0.38% for the 50-59 age group.

It's not really been a threat, for children and adults below the age of 50, so far.

Japan was in front of this way ahead of the United States. The Tokyo marathon was canceled in the middle of February. The Japanese are also very germphobic. Not uncommon to see people wearing dust masks at public events way before this thing started.


Abe eyes no virus emergency declaration, Tokyo Olympics as planned

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/03/9cfe9f88fe32-urgent-abe-says-currently-no-need-to-declare-emergency-over-virus.html

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday he sees no immediate need to declare a state of emergency and that Japan will make preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as scheduled despite the global new coronavirus pandemic.
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 17, 2020, 04:53:03 AM
It will be pretty hard to hold the olympics as planned without any athletes.
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Post by: falco on March 17, 2020, 06:58:53 AM
Thank you Lifter. Here in Portugal we are at the begining of the crisis. 500 infected, 1 dead. Numbers are increasing by the day.
 Spain has a rampant infection spread also: 149 deaths in one day, 2000 infected.
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Post by: Bevo on March 17, 2020, 07:04:13 AM
Japan was in front of this way ahead of the United States. The Tokyo marathon was canceled in the middle of February. The Japanese are also very germphobic. Not uncommon to see people wearing dust masks at public events way before this thing started.


Abe eyes no virus emergency declaration, Tokyo Olympics as planned

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/03/9cfe9f88fe32-urgent-abe-says-currently-no-need-to-declare-emergency-over-virus.html

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday he sees no immediate need to declare a state of emergency and that Japan will make preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as scheduled despite the global new coronavirus pandemic.


South Korea and Japan on top of things, making Italy and other “European” countries look like shit and not well managed  ::)
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Post by: Bevo on March 17, 2020, 07:05:03 AM
It will be pretty hard to hold the olympics as planned without any athletes.

We can send bbers over there
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 17, 2020, 08:04:34 AM
So much for the "European Union" it looks to me like it's every country for itself  ::)
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Post by: Dave D on March 17, 2020, 08:54:47 AM
theres a cure check the other thread, i dont like repeating myself, thats the point of difference here and in Japan.

The worlds not ending.

Army is not swayed by non fear mongering stats.
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Post by: pamith on March 17, 2020, 09:15:54 AM
My Italian brothers and sisters, stay strong in your faith, God is with you, believe in Jesus, you can survive!
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Post by: gib on March 17, 2020, 09:41:45 AM
Wow. Very sorry for these deaths :(

Can I ask, were any of those you knew who died smokers or already in poor health?
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Post by: pamith on March 17, 2020, 09:55:43 AM
It would be a lot better if they were quiet, well mannered, and polite like urban African Americans.
Bro...
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Post by: BB on March 17, 2020, 11:50:31 AM
Nothing we already didn't know, but regular flu strains seem to have higher mortality rates in Italy vs other countries, so this was bound to cause havoc -

"In the winter seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%."

"More than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the study period."

"Italy showed a higher influenza attributable excess mortality compared to other European countries. especially in the elderly."

"We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, respectively, using the Goldstein index."

"The observed excess of deaths is not completely unexpected, given the high number of fragile very old subjects living in Italy."

Link to  study abstract - www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285 .
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 17, 2020, 11:53:34 AM
Here are the bodies.

Italian newspaper, 9th february: 1,5 page of obituaries.

Same newspaper, 13th march: 10 pages of obituaries.

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Post by: Primemuscle on March 17, 2020, 12:20:05 PM
Here are the bodies.

Italian newspaper, 9th february: 1,5 page of obituaries.

Same newspaper, 13th march: 10 pages of obituaries.



The Oregonian which is published daily regularly has 2 to 3 pages of obits. Oregon's total population is 4.7 million.
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 17, 2020, 01:07:05 PM
The Oregonian which is published daily regularly has 2 to 3 pages of obits. Oregon's total population is 4.7 million.

I think the point here is the change in numbers.

If one area, regardless of number of people, go from 2 deaths to 10 deaths then that's bad news.
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Post by: gib on March 17, 2020, 09:23:43 PM
Can I ask, were any of those you knew who died smokers or already in poor health?
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Post by: Primemuscle on March 18, 2020, 01:26:46 AM
Just heard from an old friend who lives in Italy. She says she's find. Right before the shit hit the fan, she went to her country house to wait this out.
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Post by: gmflex on March 18, 2020, 02:38:51 AM
 ;D.   ;D

Heard Italy is on its way of becoming like the movie 28 weeks later..

 ;D    ;D
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Post by: joswift on March 18, 2020, 02:56:59 AM
Here are the bodies.

Italian newspaper, 9th february: 1,5 page of obituaries.

Same newspaper, 13th march: 10 pages of obituaries.



those are not all coronavirus deaths, they are all the obituaries..
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Post by: harmankardon1 on March 18, 2020, 03:01:14 AM
those are not all coronavirus deaths, they are all the obituaries..

Don't bother the guy is a moron... Or trolling hard like a moron.
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 18, 2020, 03:25:05 AM
those are not all coronavirus deaths, they are all the obituaries..

So you think it's a coincidence that in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak the newspaper goes from 1,5 pages of obituaries to 10 pages?

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Post by: joswift on March 18, 2020, 03:51:29 AM
So you think it's a coincidence that in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak the newspaper goes from 1,5 pages of obituaries to 10 pages?



when a pitbull bites someone there are always a lot of reports about pitbulls biting people

when was the last time you read a pitbull story?

Its called "flavour of the month"
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Post by: falco on March 18, 2020, 03:57:28 AM
Spain: More 2538 infected in the last 24 hours.
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Post by: falco on March 18, 2020, 04:05:08 AM
those are not all coronavirus deaths, they are all the obituaries..

Mostly moped crashes  ::)
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Post by: harmankardon1 on March 18, 2020, 05:08:27 AM
Spain: More 2538 infected in the last 24 hours.

...I got 1890 the official count
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Post by: joswift on March 18, 2020, 05:08:56 AM
Spain: More 2538 infected in the last 24 hours.

have they all been tested positive for Covid 19?
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Post by: IroNat on March 18, 2020, 05:15:20 AM
Feb 9, 2020 was a Sunday

March 13, 2020 was a Friday

When is the busiest day for publishing obits with this newspaper?
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Post by: harmankardon1 on March 18, 2020, 05:28:19 AM
Spain: More 2538 infected in the last 24 hours.

Country of over 40 million people.
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Post by: DooM_ on March 18, 2020, 05:31:43 AM
so economies and livelihoods around the world will be wrecked and it still won't stop the virus
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Post by: pamith on March 18, 2020, 06:04:22 AM
We need Jesus
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Post by: Twaddle on March 18, 2020, 06:23:24 AM
Feb 9, 2020 was a Sunday

March 13, 2020 was a Friday

When is the busiest day for publishing obits with this newspaper?

My thoughts exactly.  Maybe since Italy is in a complete lockdown, the newspaper is only running once a week.  Or, maybe a normal day is 7 pages, and Feb 9th just happened to be an extraordinarily light day.  To many variables to get excited about a viral video. 
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Post by: falco on March 18, 2020, 07:10:15 AM
have they all been tested positive for Covid 19?

That's what i read in the news.
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Post by: joswift on March 18, 2020, 07:16:00 AM
That's what i read in the news.
link?
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Post by: falco on March 18, 2020, 08:04:23 AM
link?


https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/1435970/espanha-com-mais-2538-casos-nas-ultimas-24-horas

Total infected in Spain: 13.716 cases
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Post by: el numero uno on March 18, 2020, 08:07:23 AM
https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/1435970/espanha-com-mais-2538-casos-nas-ultimas-24-horas

Total infected in Spain: 13.716 cases

Getbiggers only speak American.

If it's in another language it doesn't count.

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Post by: The Keto Kid on March 18, 2020, 08:19:13 AM
I heard from a friend in Italy yesterday,  he says shit is serious out there, a lot of the doctors, nurses, emts,  are dying from the virus catching it from working around and caring for people with Covid19. These are not old people dying some as young as 40 years old.
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Post by: falco on March 18, 2020, 08:53:04 AM
Getbiggers only speak American.

If it's in another language it doesn't count.



Agree, but he asked for it.
One cannot get more international than speaking American.
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Post by: friedchickendinner on March 18, 2020, 08:54:41 AM
My thoughts exactly.  Maybe since Italy is in a complete lockdown, the newspaper is only running once a week.  Or, maybe a normal day is 7 pages, and Feb 9th just happened to be an extraordinarily light day.  To many variables to get excited about a viral video. 

Why don't you check with your italian relatives?
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Post by: Bindare_Dundat on March 18, 2020, 10:20:29 AM
Still waiting for the pics of those stacked bodies and trenches filled with the dead.
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Post by: DooM_ on March 18, 2020, 10:24:57 AM
Getbiggers only speak American.

If it's in another language it doesn't count.



you mean english , there is no 'american' language , only an american dialect of english
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Post by: Kwon on March 18, 2020, 10:32:45 AM
you mean english , there is no 'american' language , only an american dialect of english

No, what Getbiggers speak (regardless of their nationality or ethnicity) is american.

English-speakers WISH they could speak american like Getbiggers, but a Getbiggers language is in a dimension of it's own.
A whole other ballpark.


Dave Czech wrote/spoke american, Jean-Francois Papillon wrote/spoke american, whatever Johnny Falcon spoke/wrote was american and so is:


"POOH PARR NOW POOF TO?"

Which is the basis of the Vespuccian language of Yore.
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Post by: Primemuscle on March 18, 2020, 12:18:39 PM
Spain: More 2538 infected in the last 24 hours.

Well, they must have more test kits available than we do in the U.S. How's that?
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Post by: Primemuscle on March 18, 2020, 12:20:52 PM
Feb 9, 2020 was a Sunday

March 13, 2020 was a Friday

When is the busiest day for publishing obits with this newspaper?

In the Oregonian, it is always Sunday. It covers the week and longer. Sometimes people memorialize loved ones who died years ago by submitting an obit.
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Post by: Taffin on March 18, 2020, 12:31:29 PM
The Law of Unintended Consequences...


Dolphins and swans appear in Venice canals a week after city locks down to prevent coronavirus spread

“After a week of lockdown... The canals in Venice are all clear and full of fishes. Kinda gives you the idea what will happen to Earth without Humans!”


(https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/08/28/17/246553434-honey-a-bottle-nose-dolphin-is-seen-at-abandoned-inubosaki-marine-park-aquarium-in-choshi.jpg?w968)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dolphins-venice-canals-coronavirus-lockdown-italy-a4390686.html (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dolphins-venice-canals-coronavirus-lockdown-italy-a4390686.html)


Makes me wonder...  Anyone on here ever eaten dolphin?  (Serious question)  I've always wondered what it tastes like (sorry Flipper)
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Post by: Hypertrophy on March 18, 2020, 12:37:46 PM
Italy made it's own bed and now gets to lay in it. The 80 year olds anyways.

Interesting article on how the latest of Italy's totally dysfunctional governments signed on the dotted line with China last year and - "poof" the Kung Flu slaps them in the face. They were warned by the US but you know- they are so smart, haha.

By the way, I am more than happy Iran also got hit with it- and they too went to bed with the Chinese. Guess all those trips to Beijing brought back more than money...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/italy-joins-china-belt-road-initiative-190321170015949.html
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Post by: Primemuscle on March 18, 2020, 12:38:09 PM
The Law of Unintended Consequences...


Dolphins and swans appear in Venice canals a week after city locks down to prevent coronavirus spread

“After a week of lockdown... The canals in Venice are all clear and full of fishes. Kinda gives you the idea what will happen to Earth without Humans!”


(https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/08/28/17/246553434-honey-a-bottle-nose-dolphin-is-seen-at-abandoned-inubosaki-marine-park-aquarium-in-choshi.jpg?w968)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dolphins-venice-canals-coronavirus-lockdown-italy-a4390686.html (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dolphins-venice-canals-coronavirus-lockdown-italy-a4390686.html)


Makes me wonder...  Anyone on here ever eaten dolphin?  (Serious question)  I've always wondered what it tastes like (sorry Flipper)

Would that be like eating your pet?

"Intelligence can be defined as the ability to learn and apply knowledge; to understand new or challenging situations and the ability to think abstractly. Dolphins demonstrate the ability to do all of these things and most scientists agree that dolphins are very intelligent. They are notoriously talented mimics and quick learners; they demonstrate self-awareness, problem-solving, and empathy, innovation, teaching skills, grief, joy and playfulness."

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-intelligent-are-whales-and-dolphins/
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Post by: Taffin on March 18, 2020, 01:25:24 PM
Would that be like eating your pet?

"Intelligence can be defined as the ability to learn and apply knowledge; to understand new or challenging situations and the ability to think abstractly. Dolphins demonstrate the ability to do all of these things and most scientists agree that dolphins are very intelligent. They are notoriously talented mimics and quick learners; they demonstrate self-awareness, problem-solving, and empathy, innovation, teaching skills, grief, joy and playfulness."

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-intelligent-are-whales-and-dolphins/

I see what you mean, but your general large farm animals (cows, pigs, horses) also display intelligence (not sheep), and I've got no problem eating them even though I lived next to a farm when I was smaller - I always understood that one day my special 'friend' would end up on my plate...

And to be clear, I've no intentions of going hunting  ;D  I'm thinking of those poor critters who die accidentally in fishing nets or something... seems a sin to waste them...
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Post by: IroNat on March 18, 2020, 03:04:38 PM
I heard from a friend in Italy yesterday,  he says shit is serious out there, a lot of the doctors, nurses, emts,  are dying from the virus catching it from working around and caring for people with Covid19. These are not old people dying some as young as 40 years old.

We need pics or it didn't happen.
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Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 18, 2020, 11:54:53 PM
Would that be like eating your pet?

"Intelligence can be defined as the ability to learn and apply knowledge; to understand new or challenging situations and the ability to think abstractly. Dolphins demonstrate the ability to do all of these things and most scientists agree that dolphins are very intelligent. They are notoriously talented mimics and quick learners; they demonstrate self-awareness, problem-solving, and empathy, innovation, teaching skills, grief, joy and playfulness."

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-intelligent-are-whales-and-dolphins/

All BS propaganda, suckers can bite & destroy surfboards. There is nothing like young shark terrorizing dolphins  8)

Example, for no reason that bloody fish bites board !?.

& they kill other fish !.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 19, 2020, 12:18:32 AM
All BS propaganda, suckers can bite & destroy surfboards. There is nothing like young shark terrorizing dolphins  8)

Example, for no reason that bloody fish bites board !?.

& they kill other fish !.

God save the surfboards!
Title: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: SAMSON123 on March 19, 2020, 12:42:04 AM
What I and others have been saying all along


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says


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99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says



By Tommaso Ebhardt , Chiara Remondini , and Marco Bertacche

March 18, 2020, 8:56 AM EDT

Italians Rally in Coronavirus Lockdown


We’re tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response. Sign up here for our daily newsletter on what you need to know.

More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.

After deaths from the virus reached more than 2,500, with a 150% increase in the past week, health authorities have been combing through data to provide clues to help combat the spread of the disease.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is evaluating whether to extend a nationwide lockdown beyond the beginning of April, daily La Stampa reported Wednesday. Italy has more than 31,500 confirmed cases of the illness.


Italy Coronavirus Deaths
By prior illnesses (%)

Source: ISS Italy National Health Institute, March 17 sample
The new study could provide insight into why Italy’s death rate, at about 8% of total infected people, is higher than in other countries.

The Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18% of the country’s coronavirus fatalities, finding that just three victims, or 0.8% of the total, had no previous pathology. Almost half of the victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fourth had either one or two previous conditions.

More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.

Threat to the Elderly
The median age of the infected is 63 but most of those who die are older

Source: ISS Italy National Health institute, March 17 sample
The average age of those who’ve died from the virus in Italy is 79.5. As of March 17, 17 people under 50 had died from the disease. All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.

While data released Tuesday point to a slowdown in the increase of cases, with a 12.6% rise, a separate study shows Italy could be underestimating the real number of cases by testing only patients presenting symptoms.

According to the GIMBE Foundation, about 100,000 Italians have contracted the virus, daily Il Sole 24 Ore reported. That would bring back the country’s death rate closer to the global average of about 2%.

— With assistance by Karl Maier, and Alessandro Speciale
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: MAXX on March 19, 2020, 12:54:38 AM
I believe Italy has a high % of smokers aswell. Which is also terrible for lungs Obviously.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: jr on March 19, 2020, 01:22:34 AM


More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.



It's not looking good for the average juiced up bodybuilder.

Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Mayday on March 19, 2020, 02:30:02 AM
It's not looking good for the average juiced up bodybuilder.

I think you will find the high BP is actually the old age marker.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Thin Lizzy on March 19, 2020, 02:56:19 AM
I believe Italy has a high % of smokers aswell. Which is also terrible for lungs Obviously.

So does China.

When this thing fizzles out, look for the goalposts to be moved and the definition of what this disease is be expanded. Everyone with a cough, a sore throat and a little fever is going to be considered having corona, as if these symptoms didn’t already exist.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: G_Thang on March 19, 2020, 03:09:34 AM
any word on marvin hagler and monica bellucci.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Thin Lizzy on March 19, 2020, 03:11:05 AM
A Coronavirus Explosion Was Expected in Japan. Where Is It?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/a-coronavirus-explosion-was-expected-in-japan-where-is-it
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: IroNat on March 19, 2020, 03:30:53 AM
A Coronavirus Explosion Was Expected in Japan. Where Is It?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/a-coronavirus-explosion-was-expected-in-japan-where-is-it

Radiation from Fukushima has mutated Japanese DNA making them immune.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: SuperTed on March 19, 2020, 03:37:31 AM
Italy has a large elderly population so it was bound to leave a large death count there. I was also speaking to an Iranian friend who said that the younger people in his homeland who get infected recover within a week or two. As summer approaches, hopefully it's impact will decline as it seems to thrive on moderate temperatures of around 10-14 degrees. 
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Thin Lizzy on March 19, 2020, 04:15:14 AM
Italy has a large elderly population so it was bound to leave a large death count there. I was also speaking to an Iranian friend who said that the younger people in his homeland who get infected recover within a week or two. As summer approaches, hopefully it's impact will decline as it seems to thrive on moderate temperatures of around 10-14 degrees. 

So, it would otherwise be indistinguishable from the standard flu bug that goes around every year?
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: SF1900 on March 19, 2020, 05:13:44 AM
What I and others have been saying all along


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says


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99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says



By Tommaso Ebhardt , Chiara Remondini , and Marco Bertacche

March 18, 2020, 8:56 AM EDT

Italians Rally in Coronavirus Lockdown


We’re tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response. Sign up here for our daily newsletter on what you need to know.

More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.

After deaths from the virus reached more than 2,500, with a 150% increase in the past week, health authorities have been combing through data to provide clues to help combat the spread of the disease.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is evaluating whether to extend a nationwide lockdown beyond the beginning of April, daily La Stampa reported Wednesday. Italy has more than 31,500 confirmed cases of the illness.


Italy Coronavirus Deaths
By prior illnesses (%)

Source: ISS Italy National Health Institute, March 17 sample
The new study could provide insight into why Italy’s death rate, at about 8% of total infected people, is higher than in other countries.

The Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18% of the country’s coronavirus fatalities, finding that just three victims, or 0.8% of the total, had no previous pathology. Almost half of the victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fourth had either one or two previous conditions.

More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.

Threat to the Elderly
The median age of the infected is 63 but most of those who die are older

Source: ISS Italy National Health institute, March 17 sample
The average age of those who’ve died from the virus in Italy is 79.5. As of March 17, 17 people under 50 had died from the disease. All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.

While data released Tuesday point to a slowdown in the increase of cases, with a 12.6% rise, a separate study shows Italy could be underestimating the real number of cases by testing only patients presenting symptoms.

According to the GIMBE Foundation, about 100,000 Italians have contracted the virus, daily Il Sole 24 Ore reported. That would bring back the country’s death rate closer to the global average of about 2%.

— With assistance by Karl Maier, and Alessandro Speciale

Thank you for posting what is pretty much already known.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Pet shop boys on March 19, 2020, 05:48:06 AM
If you're young and healthy You can get the virus and pretty much recover ...


Sadly is a brand new virus so we don't know if those who survive it won't have scars/future damage in kidneys and lungs

(Of course Bodybuilders wouldnt give a flying fack to kidneys and lungs)





WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHH   TA NA KA
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: SOMEPARTS on March 19, 2020, 09:17:51 AM
If you're young and healthy You can get the virus and pretty much recover ...


Sadly is a brand new virus so we don't know if those who survive it won't have scars/future damage in kidneys and lungs

(Of course Bodybuilders wouldnt give a flying fack to kidneys and lungs)





WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHH   TA NA KA






The truth is if you get pneumonia of the regular sort you also get lasting lung damage.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Primemuscle on March 19, 2020, 09:18:18 AM
If you're young and healthy You can get the virus and pretty much recover ...


Sadly is a brand new virus so we don't know if those who survive it won't have scars/future damage in kidneys and lungs

(Of course Bodybuilders wouldnt give a flying fack to kidneys and lungs)





WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHH   TA NA KA

It would seem how seriously COVID-19 affects other organs, including kidneys and liver depends on the severity of the infection on particular individuals.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-what-happens-to-the-body-after-contracting-the-coronavirus#COVID-19-affects-lungs
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Taffin on March 19, 2020, 10:55:30 AM
I haven't really read much about this, but when the death rate is published, is it corrected for the age profile of that country?

By this I mean - are there just a lot more older people in Italy than in other countries?  (Due to the great diet and olive oil, no doubt)

It just seems reasonable to expect that a country with an older population will get hit harder...
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Primemuscle on March 19, 2020, 11:17:09 AM
I haven't really read much about this, but when the death rate is published, is it corrected for the age profile of that country?

By this I mean - are there just a lot more older people in Italy than in other countries?  (Due to the great diet and olive oil, no doubt)

It just seems reasonable to expect that a country with an older population will get hit harder...

"In 2000 Italy's healthcare system was regarded, by World Health Organization's ranking, as the 2nd best in the world after France, and according to the World Health Organization, Italy has the world's 6th highest life expectancy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Italy
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: The Scott on March 19, 2020, 11:18:19 AM
"In 2000 Italy's healthcare system was regarded, by World Health Organization's ranking, as the 2nd best in the world after France, and according to the World Health Organization, Italy has the world's 6th highest life expectancy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Italy

I suppose that they experienced a massive influx of mature muslimes?
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 19, 2020, 11:36:26 AM
Italy has the oldest population of all the european countries.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: SAMSON123 on March 19, 2020, 11:54:18 AM
Thank you for posting what is pretty much already known.


You'd be pretty shocked how many DO NOT KNOW THIS....
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: French on March 19, 2020, 12:16:46 PM
treatment is already available

https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2020/3/18/21183917/coronavirus-covid19-france-drug-trial-professor (https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2020/3/18/21183917/coronavirus-covid19-france-drug-trial-professor)
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: DooM_ on March 19, 2020, 12:19:24 PM
entire global economic meltdown to save chronically ill and near death people from dying
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: oldtimer1 on March 19, 2020, 12:44:00 PM
In the US 50,000 died from pneumonia last year. This season 20,000 plus died from the ordinary flu in the US this year. Right now we have around 100 deaths from Corona and our economy is on the brink of collapse from the hysteria.

Half of the entire population in Italy is above 47 years old. They have limited testing and I wonder if the upper respiratory infections were actually pneumonia and the flu.  Without testing a fever and having trouble breathing could be confused with Corona. Again they don't have a flood of tests for Corona in Italy yet. 
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: tommywishbone on March 19, 2020, 01:06:08 PM
Lots of old vendettas being settled. Mafia just being mafia.

Carry on citizens. Nothing to see here.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: irishdave on March 19, 2020, 01:20:13 PM
All BS propaganda, suckers can bite & destroy surfboards. There is nothing like young shark terrorizing dolphins  8)

Example, for no reason that bloody fish bites board !?.

& they kill other fish !.

You’ll be sleeping with the fishes 😀
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Megalodon on March 19, 2020, 01:32:09 PM
640,000 Italians die each year on average.

If they can't find graveyard space for 3000 coronavirus victims so far...

...how will they find space for the 640,000...

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 19, 2020, 02:00:36 PM
640,000 Italians die each year on average.

If they can't find graveyard space for 3000 coronavirus victims so far...

...how will they find space for the 640,000...



Think it works like this:

Something happening every year, you get an average, so you can plan for it.

But when something is happening in a very short period of time, that you didn't expect, and didn't plan for, then it becomes problematic.

Something like that.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Dave D on March 19, 2020, 02:05:36 PM
Think it works like this:

Something happening every year, you get an average, so you can plan for it.

But when something is happening in a very short period of time, that you didn't expect, and didn't plan for, then it becomes problematic.

Something like that.

They plan for 640,000 deaths?

How busy is Walmart?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Ron on March 19, 2020, 11:04:29 PM
China is sending medical experts and supplies to help Italy fight coronavirus

A group of 300 Chinese intensive-care doctors began to arrive in Italy on Wednesday, one of several Chinese offers to support epidemic-stricken European countries, as China tries to rebrand itself internationally from source of the new coronavirus to a friendly helper. Specialist doctors and medical equipment have landed in Italy ready to help tackle the sharp spike in people with the disease, which has overwhelmed medical facilities. The doctors bring with them first-hand experience of dealing with the coronavirus, having previously helped to tackle the original outbreak in China's Hubei province that killed more than 3,000 people. Tough quarantine measures have seen the rate of new cases in China dwindle, while in Europe the outbreak continues to spread.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Primemuscle on March 19, 2020, 11:29:03 PM
Think it works like this:

Something happening every year, you get an average, so you can plan for it.

But when something is happening in a very short period of time, that you didn't expect, and didn't plan for, then it becomes problematic.

Something like that.

Do governments and people plan for pandemics? Most of us are too busy trying to get through each day to think about such catastrophic situations.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: joswift on March 20, 2020, 01:36:38 AM
China nipped it in the bud with drastic quarantine measures and are now virtually over it

Europe and the USA seem to want to drag it out for months with half assed "advice" as opposed to instructions and sanctions.

Which translates as we want to financially cripple the average worker.

Chinas economy is back up and functioning again, the rest of the world is crashing..
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: DooM_ on March 20, 2020, 01:55:52 AM
China nipped it in the bud with drastic quarantine measures and are now virtually over it

Europe and the USA seem to want to drag it out for months with half assed "advice" as opposed to instructions and sanctions.

Which translates as we want to financially cripple the average worker.

Chinas economy is back up and functioning again, the rest of the world is crashing..

and lied to the world , only let them know the full extent when it was too late
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 20, 2020, 02:59:48 AM
Do governments and people plan for pandemics? Most of us are too busy trying to get through each day to think about such catastrophic situations.

Preppers do.

Governments, worldwide doesn't seem too.

And yet we heard from experts over the years say that it's not a question of if, but when, something will happen.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 20, 2020, 04:19:07 AM
Think it works like this:

Something happening every year, you get an average, so you can plan for it.

But when something is happening in a very short period of time, that you didn't expect, and didn't plan for, then it becomes problematic.

Something like that.

Sort of like when you have an idea in your head ( like your dumb ass) and you keep finding reasons to support it, even when it isn't based in logic.....
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: harmankardon1 on March 20, 2020, 04:21:31 AM
China nipped it in the bud with drastic quarantine measures and are now virtually over it

Europe and the USA seem to want to drag it out for months with half assed "advice" as opposed to instructions and sanctions.

Which translates as we want to financially cripple the average worker.

Chinas economy is back up and functioning again, the rest of the world is crashing..

Yep, what a mess.....
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: DooM_ on March 20, 2020, 04:32:07 AM
china polluting the whole planet with their diseases , there will be a huge backlash against them
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: French on March 20, 2020, 04:40:12 AM
and lied to the world , only let them know the full extent when it was too late

USA and Europe didn't care about virus propagation in China.
When all the world knew that it's was problematic in China in January, nobody care
except for the trade and manufacturing sites.

They just woke up when they were hit.

anyway
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-carolina-sen-richard-burr-sold-off-stock/story?id=69699666 (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-carolina-sen-richard-burr-sold-off-stock/story?id=69699666)


 

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on March 20, 2020, 04:54:25 PM
china polluting the whole planet with their diseases , there will be a huge backlash against them


Rubbish, altered Coronavirus, Wuhan was selected specifically, China will hit back !.

Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: TheGrinch on March 20, 2020, 05:32:30 PM
USA and Europe didn't care about virus propagation in China.
When all the world knew that it's was problematic in China in January, nobody care
except for the trade and manufacturing sites.

They just woke up when they were hit.

anyway
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-carolina-sen-richard-burr-sold-off-stock/story?id=69699666 (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-carolina-sen-richard-burr-sold-off-stock/story?id=69699666)


wooooshh





 


Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Megalodon on March 20, 2020, 07:17:30 PM
Since virtue signaling cures disease....

Coronavirus should have been already eradicated considering Italy made a public service advert in Feb. 2020 encouraging Italians to hug Chinese.



Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: jr on March 20, 2020, 09:49:26 PM
Don't underestimate this emergency.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Methyl m1ke on March 21, 2020, 12:57:33 AM
Are these numbers with or without the hugging of chinks?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: honest on March 21, 2020, 03:09:25 AM
 chloroquine and azithromycin will kill the virus and treat the associated onsetting pneumonia after about 6 days in most cases. If your government won't approve their use or have been caught short with supply, your population is paying a very high price, in saying that it won't save the very old who were practically dead anyway,sorry, but anyone with a few years in them in most cases will respond and recover. A vaccine is a much better course of action as its prevention, but there is now a treatment, that seems to be working but global supply is low due to huge global demand and a lot of countries simply won't approve medicine for use until they have trailed and approved it, ridiculous but blame the lawyers and liability. Cant have people escaping certain death then living two more years and getting related liver damage, welcome to 2020 government incompetence will always kill more people than anything.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: DooM_ on March 21, 2020, 03:12:39 AM
Are these numbers with or without the hugging of chinks?

the chinaman virus is racist
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: prowlermaniac on March 21, 2020, 04:09:27 AM
Don't underestimate this emergency.

Hockey stick trajectory is mortifying to see.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: pamith on March 21, 2020, 12:53:24 PM
Someone sneezed earlier...I inhaled...is this bad?
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: illuminati on March 21, 2020, 12:57:06 PM
chloroquine and azithromycin will kill the virus and treat the associated onsetting pneumonia after about 6 days in most cases. If your government won't approve their use or have been caught short with supply, your population is paying a very high price, in saying that it won't save the very old who were practically dead anyway,sorry, but anyone with a few years in them in most cases will respond and recover. A vaccine is a much better course of action as its prevention, but there is now a treatment, that seems to be working but global supply is low due to huge global demand and a lot of countries simply won't approve medicine for use until they have trailed and approved it, ridiculous but blame the lawyers and liability. Cant have people escaping certain death then living two more years and getting related liver damage, welcome to 2020 government incompetence will always kill more people than anything.

X2
Very good post.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Thin Lizzy on March 21, 2020, 01:07:11 PM
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285

Investigating the impact of influenza on excess mortality in all ages in Italy during recent seasons (2013/14–2016/17 seasons)

Italy showed a higher influenza attributable excess mortality compared to other European countries. especially in the elderly.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Megalodon on March 23, 2020, 02:32:09 PM
It would be interesting to know what % of Northern Italy's dead were ethnic Italians.

Milan:



Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: illuminati on March 23, 2020, 02:35:56 PM
It would be interesting to know what % of Northern Italy's dead were ethnic Italians.

Milan:





I’ve heard there is a Very large % of Mainland Chinese people there ?
If so it may help explain the Hot Spot area as many would’ve returned to China
Over Christmas & Chinese New Year.
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: Kwon on March 23, 2020, 02:39:07 PM
25000 Muslims try to pray away the Corona

(https://external.farn2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQBKfrwKjXQOzQOl&w=540&h=282&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp-media.patheos.com%2Fsubdomain%2Fsites%2F8%2F2020%2F03%2FBangladeshCOVIDGathering-768x431.png&cfs=1&upscale=1&fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher&_nc_hash=AQCvdA8A5T9PMiis)
Title: Re: Coronavirus - I am here in Italy! Do NOT underestimate this emergency!
Post by: friedchickendinner on March 23, 2020, 02:54:41 PM
It seems a little bit risky to gather 25 000 people to pray away the Corona... however, it may work!
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Megalodon on March 26, 2020, 04:35:11 PM
“Italy got hit very badly because they had a large number of importations from China by Chinese tourists,” Fauci said.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-italy-hit-very-badly-by-coronavirus-due-to-prevalence-of-chinese-tourists/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-italy-hit-very-badly-by-coronavirus-due-to-prevalence-of-chinese-tourists/)
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: KSA on March 26, 2020, 04:54:37 PM
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/03/24/Coronavirus-and-obesity-industry-urged-to-act-post-crisis#

When you are overweight, the coronavirus disease is more serious.

As we know many people in USA are overweight.
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: mac33 on March 27, 2020, 02:48:28 AM
“Italy got hit very badly because they had a large number of importations from China by Chinese tourists,” Fauci said.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-italy-hit-very-badly-by-coronavirus-due-to-prevalence-of-chinese-tourists/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-italy-hit-very-badly-by-coronavirus-due-to-prevalence-of-chinese-tourists/)

Italy had 100.000 workers from Wuhan in the textile/leather industry imported to work in northern part of the country and still no one talks about it in the mainstream media. And direct flights to Italy from Wuhan region.

https://www.facebook.com/francoisgautierofficial/posts/2788120524620147?__tn__=K-R

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/03/19/its-no-coincidence-that-italy-and-iran-have-been-so-hard-hit-by-the-wuhan-virus/

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201903/26/WS5c99657aa3104842260b2792.html
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Primemuscle on March 27, 2020, 09:47:54 AM
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/03/24/Coronavirus-and-obesity-industry-urged-to-act-post-crisis#

When you are overweight, the coronavirus disease is more serious.

As we know many people in USA are overweight.

Does this mean that the virus prefers fat folks because there is more to kill?
Title: only around 900 deaths in Italy due to Covid19, rest all other causes.
Post by: joswift on May 05, 2020, 02:12:23 PM
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Teutonic Knight 1 on May 06, 2020, 02:05:57 PM
“Italy got hit very badly because they had a large number of importations from China by Chinese tourists,” Fauci said.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-italy-hit-very-badly-by-coronavirus-due-to-prevalence-of-chinese-tourists/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-italy-hit-very-badly-by-coronavirus-due-to-prevalence-of-chinese-tourists/)

Clothing factory WORKERS, not tourists !.

Tourists go to Venice,Rome or Florence !.

OBW, why black Africans can't do those jobs  ??? .                ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Post by: Griffith on May 06, 2020, 04:21:53 PM
Clothing factory WORKERS, not tourists !.

Tourists go to Venice,Rome or Florence !.

OBW, why black Africans can't do those jobs  ??? .                ;D ;D ;D

Correct.