Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co...
by sfj on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:24PM
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>> processed by their bureaucracy
That is the issue here. They completely ignored it until people were dying in the hallways of hospitals and then implemented a draconian policy.
And now they're locking up anyone who criticizes them. See this article about "Gratitude education", a term that tops Orwell in its dystopian implications:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/gratitude-educ...
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co...
by listsfrin on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:59AM
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Where did you read that people were "dying in the hallways of hospitals"?
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co...
by TeMPOraL on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:17AM
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Italian doctors have been writing about this since ~Tuesday. There's loads of reports and newspaper articles about it. They're in full-on triage mode, and there isn't time or manpower to give people even palliative care.
Of course there was. If they somehow magically divined the true danger of the virus the day they identified it.
But they didn't, it took time and observation, and they shut down the affected areas as soon as the extent of danger was realized and processed by their bureaucracy. There's plenty of things here that could've been done better, but it's asinine to blame them for the virus taking hold everywhere else. Doubly so given that most of the world had a month+ warning before they registered their first cases.