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SirPokeSmottington 5 points ago +5 / -0

Italy is in bad shape because they ignored the problem until it got out of control.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mayor-florence-encouraged-italians-hug-chinese-pandemic-hit

Because of that, and socialized medicine.

Don't be like Italy.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yes, that's another reason. Due to socialized medicine limiting investment in infrastructure, Italy has less critical care beds per 1M population than most Western countries.

As a result, they are having to decide who gets life-saving critical care, and who is left to die:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/14/elderly-left-isolated-abandoned-italy-death-rate-soars/

This is what the Trump administration (and state governments) are trying to prevent. We have more critical care beds, but on average about 2/3rd of them are already occupied by people with other serious illness or injury. And those other serious illnesses and injury will continue to happen, and will compete with this virus.

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trumpORbust 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yep -- Italy welcome the dirty into their country and rolled around with them like they were groomed for it --- same with Germany and other high import zones, those numbers are under reported and no capacity to deal with this

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AlphaNathan 1 point ago +2 / -1

wtf is this satire?