Hi Donjuan,
Thank you for your reports. I think nobody is saying the virus isn't real or doesn't cause illness. And it may be true that
something is going on in
some regions in Italy that is abnormal. But we all need to keep a cool head here, especially perhaps people like you who are in the front lines of this. This means looking at the SEASONAL and NATIONAL flu statistics and see whether the additional numbers of Covid cases are even noticable in the stats.
Any other day, the problems you are referring to would be an interesting anomaly that local doctors and authorities should look into. But they probably wouldn't even make it into your national media, much less CNN! Most importantly, the questions is
whether this warrants economic, social and political suicide of the whole world!
This whole thing is a hoax not in the sense that there is no virus, but in the sense that
we don't have anything resembling a pandemic, much less a global one!
Besides, the questions Gaby raised still stand, such as:
* What does "COVID suspect" mean? Were they tested? If so, only for COVID or for other viruses or bacterial infections as well? And is ER access in any way privileged to "suspected COVID cases"?
* Are these extra beds you refer to full? If so, with
tested Covid patients? Do they have symptoms BECAUSE covid or WITH covid? Are they tested for other things as well? Have they other illnesses? How grave are the symptoms - and would they be hospitalized without the corona panic?
* Are these cases of young covid patients tested? What are the symptoms? Do they die or recover? Would they be hospitalized without the panic?
* As you say, there may be a massive number of infected we don't know about, which means the mortality rate is extremely low, no? Which makes the whole problem a non-problem, with the possible exception of a few local hospitals being stressed out because some extra cases?
* Assuming that it is true that there were 600 deaths in Italy in one day, was this an anomaly? Or was it lots of deaths every day? How do these numbers register in the
seasonal national stats compared with an average flu season?