Italy's thread 2020

[coorslite21]

2 hours ago, umbertino said:

Italy coronavirus lockdown leaves streets deserted – in pictures

 

The Italian government has imposed a nationwide lockdown in an effort to tackle the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak outside of China. Movements in and out of cities are severely restricted, and streets that are usually busy with life and traffic are almost empty

 

Wed 11 Mar 2020 09.41 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/mar/11/italy-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-streets-deserted-in-pictures

Thanks......you doing OK?

 CL 

[umbertino]

3 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

Thanks......you doing OK?

 CL 

 

 

Yes CL...So far I am...Thanks for asking...It is appreciated

 

Best to you and yours

[Sage449]

Prayers for Italy and the other countries going through this mess. If it's ever determined how this really occurred and it turns out to be done on purpose, I hope they're prosecuted. 

[coorslite21]

3 hours ago, umbertino said:

 

 

Yes CL...So far I am...Thanks for asking...It is appreciated

 

Best to you and yours

 

Stay well & keep in touch....if you need them......we'll send the Marine's in!😮

[umbertino]

4 hours ago, Sage449 said:

Prayers for Italy and the other countries going through this mess. If it's ever determined how this really occurred and it turns out to be done on purpose, I hope they're prosecuted. 

 

 

Thanks Sage....Much appreciated

 

 

Best to you and yours

[umbertino]

On 3/13/2020 at 3:24 AM, coorslite21 said:

 

Stay well & keep in touch....if you need them......we'll send the Marine's in!😮

 

 

I will and thanks, CL....

[umbertino]

Orderly, dour, cowed: how my beloved Italy is changed by coronavirus

 

Holed up with his family in their Parma flat, our writer tells of the eerie atmosphere in a country usually known for sociability, chaos and fun

 

 

Sun 15 Mar 2020 10.15 GMT

by Tobias Jones

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/life-lockdown-parma-italy-coronavirus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students Say Prestigious Fulbright Program Abandoned Them In Italy Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

 

Syndicated Local – CBS San Francisco

7 hrs ago

 

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/students-say-prestigious-fulbright-program-abandoned-them-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/ar-BB11cHHT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italy's coronavirus outbreak poses warning about the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare system

 

Eliza Borrello

7 hrs ago

 

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/italys-coronavirus-outbreak-poses-warning-about-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-healthcare-system/ar-BB11cc4o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The EU Is Abandoning Italy in Its Hour of Need

 

In a shameful abdication of responsibility, fellow countries in the European Union have failed to give medical assistance and supplies to Italy during an outbreak. China is filling the void

 

By Elisabeth Braw

| March 14, 2020, 2:06 PM

 

 

 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/14/coronavirus-eu-abandoning-italy-china-aid/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under lockdown, Italy's social and family life goes virtual

 

Anna Irrera, Pamela Barbaglia, Maria Caspani

March 14, 2020 / 5:36 PM / Updated 19 hours ago

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-whatsapp-idUSKBN2110VN

[umbertino]

Alitalia to rescue stranded Italians as contagion rate slows

 

16 March 2020

 

 

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/9074

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

China sends medical experts to support Italy’s fight against coronavirus

 

March 14, 2020 4:32 PM CDT By Steve Sweeney

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/china-sends-medical-experts-to-support-italys-fight-against-coronavirus/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coronavirus Updates: Cuba Sends Doctors to Italy

 

16 min ago

Hernan Porras Molina

 

 

 

https://www.entornointeligente.com/coronavirus-updates-cuba-sends-doctors-to-italy/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

I'm a teacher in Italian quarantine, and e-learning is no substitute for the real thing

 

With schools on lockdown due to coronavirus, we’re seeing how this possible ‘future of teaching’ would only benefit some children

 

Wed 18 Mar 2020 07.00 GMT

Lizzie Winter

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/18/italy-quarantine-e-learning-coronavirus-schools-lockdown-teaching-children

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Why we don't care a hoot what Italians think about American politics 

 

 

 

[Synopsis]

1 hour ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Why we don't care a hoot what Italians think about American politics

 

!!!LadyGrace'sDaddy!!!

 

ALL a staged event.

 

Did those military style transports:

• ACTUALLY have coffins in them???!!!
• If so, as ancient alien astronauts theorists propose, did the coffins have deceased ITALIANS in them???!!!
• If so, as ancient alien astronauts theorists propose, did the coffins have deceased ITALIANS who ACTUALLY DIED FROM THE CORONAVIRUS in them???!!!
• If so, as ancient alien astronauts theorists propose, WILL THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT SIMILARLY TRANSPORT DEAD ITALIANS WHO DIED FROM FASCISM (there would be far more military style transports needed for this maneuver - Italy doesn't have enough)???!!!

Fascism in Italy has, and still is, killing MORE ITALIANS than the CoronaVirus.

 

Maybe ancient alien astronauts are returning to earth and annihilating Italians while the Italians and the whole world is using the CoronaVirus as a cover up???!!!

 

Maybe (more likely the case) the quarantined in place were easier to capture and snuff to promote Fascism in Italy and the world???!!!

 

 

[umbertino]

Coronavirus has taught Italy hard lessons. Other countries must learn from us

 

 

My newspaper has found itself on the frontline of the crisis. Free information is more important now than ever

 

 

Maurizio Molinari (editor-in-chief of La Stampa - Turin)

 

Fri 20 Mar 2020 11.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Mar 2020 14.23 GMT

 

 

 

A delivery rider in Genoa, Italy, 19 March 2020: ‘Uniting against the pandemic in a show of spontaneous patriotism ultimately makes the nation more cohesive.’

Photograph: Luca Zennaro/EPA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/coronavirus-italy-lessons-countries-crisis-information

[umbertino]

Italy struggled to convince citizens of coronavirus crisis. What can Europe learn?

 

Country’s experience could offer lesson to European neighbours following a similar trajectory

 

Angela Giuffrida Rome correspondent

Mon 23 Mar 2020 07.10 GMT

 

 

Soldiers stand guard at Piazza del Duomo ( cathedral square) in Milan, Italy

Photograph: Carlo Cozzoli/Rex/Shutterstock

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/a-warning-to-europe-italy-struggle-to-convince-citizens-of-coronavirus-crisis

[Sage449]

I read this a.m. where patient no. 1 in Italy is breathing on his own and finally recovering. Some good news for Italy, with a long way to go. 

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Patient No. 1 is out of ICU as virus pushes Italy to brinkItalian doctors are celebrating one small victory in their battle against the coronavirus after Patient No. 1 — a 38-year-old Unilever worker named Mattia — was moved out of intensive care

By

NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

 

News headlines today: Mar. 24, 2020

Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.The Associated Press

 

ROME -- Italian doctors celebrated one small victory in their battle against the coronavirus after a 38-year-old man was moved out of intensive care for the first time since he tested positive Feb. 21 and opened Italy’s health carecrisis as Patient No. 1.

But in the rest of hard-hit northern Italy, the virus’ spread was growing so exponentially that doctors were making comparisons to war-time triage medics deciding who lives, who dies and who gets access to the limited number of ICU beds.

“It’s a reasoning that our colleagues make," Dr. Guido Giustetto, head of the association of doctors in northern Piedmont, said Monday. “It becomes dramatic if, rather than doing it under normal situations, they do it because the beds are so scarce that someone might not have access to medical care.”

The Italian society of anesthesiology and intensive care published 15 ethical recommendations to consider when deciding on ICU admissions during the virus crisis and the ICU shortage. The criteria include the age of the patient and the probability of survival, and not just “first come first served.”

The Lombardy government has been scrambling to increase its ICU capacity, converting operating and recovery rooms into isolated wards to treat the 440 critical virus patients currently in need. It has cobbled together 150 more beds in the last two weeks and expects another 150 in the coming week.

But it may not be enough.

“Unfortunately we’re only at the beginning,” said Dr. Massimo Galli, head of infectious disease at Milan’s Sacco hospital. Speaking to SkyTg24, Galli noted that the numbers of infections registered in Lombardy last week were similar to those in Wuhan, China in late January.

Galli noted that Wuhan, the center of China's outbreak that infected more than 80,000 people nationwide, is a concentrated metropolis of 11 million and Lombardy is spread out. But the numbers “tell you that the diffusion is a real possibility,” he warned.

On Monday, the government took broad new measures to restrict Italians' movements nationwide and prevent social gatherings, realizing that limited restrictions weren't containing the spread. For example, the region surrounding the capital Rome — Lazio — saw its cases jump from 87 to 102 in a day, a sign that the virus was propagating far from the northern concentrations.

Also alarming was Italy’s high fatality rate: With 463 dead and 9,172 infected, Italy’s fatality rate is running at 5% nationwide and 6% in Lombardy, far higher than the 3%-4% estimates elsewhere.

Dr. Giovanni Rezza, head of infectious disease at the National Institutes of Health, attributed the high rate to the fact that Italy has the world’s oldest population after Japan, and the median age of its virus-related dead is 80.

But there are young people who are infected too. Some have been in intensive care, including the first person to test positive in the north who hadn’t been to China, a 38-year-old Unilever worker named Mattia. He came to be known in Italy as Patient No. 1.

At the San Matteo hospital in Pavia, there was a sigh of relief after Mattia began breathing on his own Monday with just a small amount of oxygen assistance, said Dr. Francesco Mojoli, head of intensive care. He was moved out of the ICU to a sub-ICU unit and was speaking with doctors.

“This disease has a long life,” Mojoli told RAI state television. “Now we hope that the fact that he was young and in good shape will help him get back to his normal life.”

Mattia first went to the hospital in Codogno on Feb. 18 complaining of flu-like symptoms. He was sent home but came back the next day after his condition worsened dramatically. He was only tested for coronavirus after doctors learned that in early February he had met with a man who had been to China.

By then, however, he had infected his wife and several doctors, nurses and patients at the Codogno hospital, creating what was thought initially to have been Italy’s main cluster. Since his China contact turned out to be negative, though, experts now believe that the virus had been circulating widely and quietly in northern Italy since at least the second half of January.

The epidemic has exposed the impact of drastic cuts to Italy's public health system over the past few years, and prompted calls for the government to authorize hiring of thousands of doctors and nurses. In Lombardy, nursing students were allowed to graduate a month early so they could be put to work immediately.

Over the weekend, a nurse named Doris Bia posted on Facebook that after taking a leave for several years to be a full-time mother, she was going back to work at the Oglio Po hospital in hard-hit Cremona.

“Starting tomorrow I’ll be beside those who are untiringly fighting this god-forsaken virus,” she wrote. “I’m doing it because I can’t ignore their sacrifice.”

[umbertino]

 

Yep Sage.....I saw an interview yesterday with patient one ...Really touching.......

 

I'm happy for him ( 38 y.o.) and his family.....

[umbertino]

We must be united like after WWII for 'rebirth' says Mattarella

Solidarity must be shown says president at Ardeatine Caves

Redazione ANSA Rome

24 March 202012:40 News

 

 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA/ Italy's President Sergio Mattarella

 

 

 

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2020/03/24/united-like-after-wwii-for-rebirth_ecbc704c-390e-4f19-9597-87c91182a787.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mafia poised to take advantage of pandemic

 

24 March 2020

 

 

 

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/9105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sicilian officials outraged by 'exodus' from Calabria

 

23 March 2020

 

 

 

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/9103

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

US-based disaster response nurse fighting coronavirus in Italy: 'I've never ... left a disaster to go to another disaster'

 

The Michigan native has treated patients in disaster zones for 10 years

 

By

Allie Yang

23 March 2020, 23:41

 

 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-based-disaster-response-nurse-fighting-coronavirus-italy/story?id=69757441

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.-based nurse talks helping fight COVID-19’s devastation in Italy: Part 2

 

6 hrs ago

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/watch/us-based-nurse-talks-helping-fight-covid-19s-devastation-in-italy-part-2/vi-BB11CWyo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m a Calamity Obsessive. After My Trip to Italy, I Was the Calamity

 

I wasn’t planning to be on vacation in a pandemic. It changed the way I’ll think about risk forever

 

By Heidi Julavits

March 23, 2020

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/24/magazine/travel-corona-virus-italy.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Ray of hope? Italy remains cautious after two-day drop in coronavirus cases

 

The world is watching keenly for signs that Italy's quarantine measures have paid off, but Italian officials remain cautious, saying the real number of cases could be ten times higher

 

 

AFP/The Local

24 March 2020

12:32 CET+01:00

 

 

Health workers transport a coronavirus patient in Milan on March 23.

Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20200324/ray-of-hope-italy-remains-cautious-after-two-day-drop-in-coronavirus-cases

[umbertino]

“Humanitarian Solidarity”: Even Under U.S. Sanctions, Cuba Sends Doctor Brigade to Italy and More

 

March 24, 2020

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/24/cuba_medical_diplomacy_italy_coronavirus

[coorslite21]

18 hours ago, umbertino said:

Ray of hope? Italy remains cautious after two-day drop in coronavirus cases

 

The world is watching keenly for signs that Italy's quarantine measures have paid off, but Italian officials remain cautious, saying the real number of cases could be ten times higher

 

 

AFP/The Local

24 March 2020

12:32 CET+01:00

 

 

Health workers transport a coronavirus patient in Milan on March 23.

Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20200324/ray-of-hope-italy-remains-cautious-after-two-day-drop-in-coronavirus-cases

 

Looking at the very limited data it seems like a bit of a bell curve based on time passed.....if so Italy is peaking......curve should flatten out.......and things should improve.......let's hope and pray that's the case.....!

Stay healthy!      CL

[umbertino]

4 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Looking at the very limited data it seems like a bit of a bell curve based on time passed.....if so Italy is peaking......curve should flatten out.......and things should improve.......let's hope and pray that's the case.....!

Stay healthy!      CL

 

 

Thanks CL...Let's hope.......Psychologically  this situation is starting to get to People.....Which is understandable.....

[umbertino]

Italian workers to strike after bosses put profits over health with coronavirus loopholes

 

March 25, 2020 12:53 PM CDT By Steve Sweeney

 

 

 

 

A worker takes away a coffin in the Crematorium Temple of Piacenza, Northern Italy, saturated with corpses awaiting cremation due to the coronavirus emergency, March 23. Though the health situation is dire, unions say some employers are exploiting "essential services" loopholes in government shutdown decrees. | Claudio Furlan / LaPresse via AP

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/italian-workers-to-strike-after-bosses-put-profits-over-health-with-coronavirus-loopholes/

 

 

All the call centers employees here  are forced to keep working even though the room space in which they stay are small and they happen to stick almost elbow-to-elbow......I call that criminal in the least.....

[umbertino]

'Customers tell us to keep the change': Italy's delivery drivers on lockdown – photo essay

 

In quarantine in Italy, Filippo Venturi turned his camera on the people providing a vital lifeline outside his front door

 

 

Fri 27 Mar 2020 14.55 GMT

by Erica Buist

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/27/italys-delivery-drivers-on-lockdown-photo-essay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Garden and balcony parties

 

Videos of Italians in lockdown enjoying communal singing from apartment balconies have been enjoyed by millions on social media

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

How austerity and anti-immigrant politics left Italy exposed to viral blitzkrieg

 

March 27, 2020 11:50 AM CDT By Conn Hallinan

 

 

 

 

Coffins are lined up on the floor in the San Giuseppe church in Seriate, one of the areas worst hit by coronavirus, near Bergamo, Italy, waiting to be taken to a crematory, Thursday, March 26, 2020. | Antonio Calanni / AP

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/how-austerity-and-anti-immigrant-politics-left-italy-exposed-to-viral-blitzkrieg/

[umbertino]

Raphael, Italian painter and architect, High Renaissance harbinger of modernity

 

April 3, 2020 12:50 PM CDT By Jenny Farrell

 

 

 

Raphael's "School of Athens," 1509-11

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/raphael-italian-painter-and-architect-high-renaissance-harbinger-of-modernity/