Even while the coronavirus-related death toll in Italy rose overnight to 15,362, Italian authorities are reporting the first drop in ICU bed use since the outbreak began.
I suspect we’re only about three months away from such a milestone … if we’re really lucky.
Yeah. We’re a well-oiled machine. This is some six-sigma shit right here.
The Italians deserve a break. I hope this is the beginning of a positive trend for them.
Meanwhile…Instead of doing his job in times of a pandemic after invoking a national emergency…Trump has been busy purging/firing Crozier and Atkinson and joking about his sexual proclivities AND negating CDC’s recommendation to wear face mask/covering for the general public in his Covid briefing yesterday!
I was about to post an article talking about the economic misery hitting Southern Italy, but I decided against it. Better to spend some time taking in that bit of good news, and let it be.
Wherever Tena is, I hope she sees this as soon as possible.
Three months sounds about right - and that’s just reaching the peak. There’s still the down side of the curve to traverse. I’m beginning to understand why isolation is such an effective punishment. I worry that months of isolation and economic decline will cause not only an economic Depression, but also widespread emotional depression, making it difficult to recover all around.
Well, that was cheerful. May I suggest Stern du Tube on YouTube? Nice compilations of assorted clips.
And still there is a long long way…
Not only the downside but even a second wave of COVID-19. That isn’t happy talk but it’s true nonetheless.
Whether we like it or not, social distancing, I think, may be in place in some form or other for a while yet…as in until treatments are found, manufactured and distributed, a vaccine is tested, effective and widely available and herd immunity becomes discernible among our populations.
Granted that there’s a long way to go before Italy is beyond this thing, it is still good to hear that anyone is seeing light at the end of this horrible tunnel.
Life in the U.S. will be fundamentally changed by this event. The place to start is to vote out (and prosecute) the criminal incompetent who currently sits in the White House.
A single dot on the graph does not a trend make.
Also, Italy’s official case and death counts are waaaay understated. Like 5,000,000 and 60,000 respectively [vs the published 124,000 and 15,000].
One of the things that’s been lost in the disastrous confusion is that there are ostensibly studies going on to figure out whether any of the proposed treatments are any good. But when you don’t have enough ventilators or PPE or morgue space, I bet the niceties of recording exactly which patient got which therapy when, what the detailed outcome was, and then transmitting that information in a timely fashion to the analytical folks, kinda go by the wayside.
Which is exactly why you need to be prepared with plans and spare people.
