Some elderly people have died struggling after having their suction tubes removed.
Italy's sadness goes far beyond that.
On March 25, Italian media reported that a 34-year-old female nurse in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Monza, Italy's Lombardy region, committed suicide. Before her death, she was diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection, and she was the second anti-epidemic nurse to commit suicide, having witnessed too many horrific deaths before her death.
It has been reported that more than 5,000 healthcare workers have been infected by the new coronavirus and more than 400 have died since it occurred in Italy. The infected healthcare workers make up about 9% of the total number of healthcare workers in Italy; truly sad.
Giorgio Valotti, Italy's first sitting government official and mayor of Cernet, a city in the province of Bergamo, has been infected with Neocoronavirus. Giorgio Vallotti, who died of a new coronavirus infection, is the first Italian government official to die in the line of duty. Varotti, who was in his late 70s, had been personally arranging for patients to be seen and commanding the front lines of the fight against the epidemic when he was tragically infected.
The Italian mayor, Giorgio Valotti, was killed in the line of duty after being infected. Valotti.
Italy's province of Bergamo is the hardest hit by the epidemic, an old man said, a village of 75 to 80 years old age group of the elderly are dead, some people died, and even the coffin is not, the funeral bells ringing all day and night, the local crematorium because too many dead, the army out, had to be pulled to a very far away from the place of cremation.
Woe to Italy!
Italy's lesson is a painful one, as are those of Spain, the United States, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
Chinese expert Academician Zhong Nanshan said that the most serious period of infection of the new coronavirus is during the onset of the disease in infected people.
European countries are paying a heavy price for their so-called freedom by not wearing masks. Oooh, may the new coronavirus awaken the sleeping arrogance of Europe and the United States!
The outbreak in Italy is very serious indeed. More than 80,000 people have been diagnosed in a medium-sized country with a population of only 60 million. Currently, Italy remains the country with the worst outbreak in the world. And, Italy also has the highest mortality rate from the epidemic, which has recently reached more than 10 percent, with as many as 8,215 deaths, and now almost one person dies every two minutes in Italy from new coronary pneumonia.
There are two main reasons for Italy's high mortality rate, namely, the aging of the population and the large number of patients who do not receive timely treatment. Italy's elderly over 60 years old accounted for 28.6% of the total population, many of whom have one or more underlying diseases themselves and are immunocompromised. Once these elderly people are infected with the new coronavirus, their condition develops rapidly and, of course, their lives are at risk if they do not receive timely treatment. So, based on the physical condition of the elderly, they really should be prioritized for diagnosis and treatment.
However, in practice, in Italy, because of the very tight beds in hospitals and the severe lack of medical resources, healthcare professionals are forced to make the difficult choice of saving those with a high survival rate first. What kind of people have a higher survival rate? Young patients, of course. This effectively excludes many older patients. The older they are, the less chance they have of being seen. So the majority of those who died in Italy were elderly.
Some people think Italy is being a bit cruel in doing this. But it really isn't an option. In fact, many of those infected in Italy died at home before they were even diagnosed. For example, in the northern Italian town of Bergamo, 75 percent of infected people died before they could even wait for a test to confirm their diagnosis, much less get to a hospital. In Bergamo, the funeral service receives 10 calls per hour requesting funeral services. It is clear that the Italian healthcare system simply cannot cope with this number of patients and has to be selective in its treatment.
Like Italy, the United States has too many people needing testing, and a severe shortage of testing equipment and supplies. The U.S. chose to test the rich first, and the poor stood back. This has caused a great deal of discontent among the poor, and they have asked, "Hasn't the U.S. always advocated equality for all? How is it that in times of crisis, the rich can be given the chance to save their lives while the poor have to wait for death? Someone reflected this to the president, the president responded: "Maybe this is life."
As you can see, whether it is Italy, or the United States, they are Western countries, the way to deal with their own values to judge, and then make trade-offs. Their so-called equality of all people is just as a propaganda slogan. When many people are threatened with death, western countries bail out those they deem worthy first, such as the young and the rich. The young people are the hope for the future, while the rich are those who can afford it. This is something that even the President of the United States has echoed.
Whether to save the old, or to protect the young, Italy takes the trade-off according to their values. And, the actual practice of Italy has given a clear answer to this question.
Seeing that Europe and the United States continue to have high levels of the epidemic, and that Italy has added more than 6,000 new cases today, I'm really anxious for them. This figure, in our 1.4 billion people in a large country, are people worrying, think of the situation in Wuhan at the beginning of the know, when Wuhan new number down to 3 digits, we feel the long-term pressure in the heart of a stone, all of a sudden lifted off, high-five small celebration ah.
Italy's population of 60 million, Hubei Province, the population is also 60 million, now Italy, I think than Hubei Province, the most serious time more serious. Because Hubei is backed by the vast hinterland of the great motherland, to be someone, to be something, as long as the families close their doors, carry a carry over, Italy? Isolated island. It is surrounded by the European Union's little brothers, are self-care, no one can let it rely on a leaning.
It can now rely on China, the problem is, after all, it is not our Hubei Province, we can not send an inspection team to inspect it, but also can not send a group of amazons to their streets to stop them from going out, they do not pay attention to their own, do not worry, do not prevent, do not control, God has no way.
Only send the medical team to go, can't cure it, can't save it.
Is it so hard to quarantine? Is it that hard to not go out? The first thing you need to do is to wear a mask! The first thing you need to do is to get the best out of the situation!
Seeing the doctor's painful choice to which on the ventilator, as far away from the East we, the same empathy, the same heartbreak. Who is not old? How desperate and sad is it to be eliminated and abandoned by these people when you are old?
A generation, a month, gone. They all went to heaven, where there is no sickness.
Although Italy has moved away from being the country with the highest cumulative number of confirmed neocoronavirus infections, it is still number one in the number of neocoronavirus pneumonia deaths. It is heartbreaking that Italy has surpassed nine thousand deaths due to the new coronavirus, it is horrible. The questioner is wrong about a whole generation of old people dying, at least there are some young people who have died of the disease. The elderly make up a larger percentage of the 9,000, but middle-aged people, young people, and even children also make up a certain percentage of the population.
Italy is the size of two Henan provinces, and the severity of the epidemic in Italy far exceeds ours, while the population of Italy is not as large as that of Anhui province, which is more than 3 million less, or about 60.54 million people. Italy is a very aging country, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Commerce Counselor's Office, Italy's 65 years old and above reached 23%, about 13.92 million people, so the subject's statement is very problematic.
In any country, anywhere, the elderly, because of their age, have poorer health and immunity, and once infected, the risk is high. However, one thing that needs to be made clear is that the rate of death from the new coronary pneumonia is not really that high. This means that some elderly people can survive the infection. A case in point is Brazil's President Bosonaro, who was denied by the media on March 13 when it was rumored that he was infected with the new coronavirus. Today another video media rumor that he had been diagnosed carried through with little information done. It should be noted here that Bosonaro is 65 years old. Of course it can't be ruled out that Italy's NeoCoronavirus is a different version of the NeoCoronavirus than the one that infected the Brazilian president, and NeoCoronaviruses are constantly mutating. Fukushima analyzed that 65-year-olds, many of whom are retired, will be more caring for their bodies for reasons of poorer health as well as the ravages of the virus, and the theory is that there are still more of them who have become house old uncles and grandmothers.
Young people have a higher chance of developing infections because of their work and the trivialization of the virus. That's because people aren't always moving in a broken stream, and the virus naturally keeps spreading. And young people tend to recover more quickly in isolation, or with proper treatment. Despite the fact that Italy is an aging society, young people have the characteristic of being susceptible to infection and transmission, and there will be a significant proportion of young patients. Some of these young people, who are infected in large numbers, have poor immunity and may become critically ill if they are not treated in a timely manner. Italy's medical resources, when faced with a large number of crazy infected patients, there is often an agonizing choice, when both the elderly and young people are critically ill, save the old or save the young?
Human life and death is the biggest thing that happens to human beings, saving the old or preserving the young this is a difficult choice, an agonizing decision. It is a difficult choice, an agonizing decision. There is no room for painful hesitation, and too much hesitation will lead to a greater tragedy, when the old can not be saved and the young can not be preserved. In Italy's hardest-hit region of Lombardy, Milan, a hospital like our third-class doctor said: In the choice of saving the old or protecting the young, can only let the more not have too much moral burden used to make the decision to choose to save the young.
The question is not absolute, and Italian hospitals treat patients with new cases of coronary artery disease on the principle that medical resources are used on those who have the best chance of survival. Those who are less fit, more sick and difficult to save will have to endure the pain and give up, and not just look at the age. Of course, from the health point of view, young people are in better health and have a better chance of preserving their health. This cold and helpless choice also has something to do with Italy's aging society.
The most precious thing is life, and life is only once for everyone, and it is good to be able to say that to the Italian Leonardo da Vinci in his dying days. Leonardo da Vinci is the first of the three Renaissance masters, he said: "Life is not false, can die happily, as a day is not false, can sleep peacefully!"
An old woman in Spain, her husband was diagnosed with New Crown Pneumonia, but there were no beds available, so they had to wait, but after there was a free bed, the doctor left it to a 44-year-old man, and the old woman cried out in pain, scolding the government for injustice.
The rapid increase in the number of patients with new coronary pneumonia has overwhelmed the healthcare system in Spain and Italy, where the situation in Italy is the worst, with a cumulative total of 80,589 patients diagnosed and 8,215 deaths, and the mortality rate is already more than 10%, with insufficient medical supplies, frontline healthcare workers not being well protected, and more than 4,800 healthcare workers infected, and insufficient medical supplies. Healthcare workers are understaffed, Italy and Spain have had to be selective in rescuing patients, and the elderly have been virtually abandoned. There were so many bodies in Bergamo, Italy, that they could not be cremated in time, and even had to be taken out of the city in military vehicles to be burned. Hospitals in both Italy and Spain were filled with patients waiting for beds, and between elderly and young patients, doctors had to choose the latter, and with Spain's 65 year old cutoff, patients over 65 were essentially left to fend for themselves after they were diagnosed. As a result of the selection of patients, older people are not being treated, and as a result, older people in Italy and Spain are particularly concerned about preventing the spread of the epidemic, cursing out young people who are still shopping and partying at this point in the video and are not wearing masks.
Prioritizing the rescue of young people is a desperate move, because the elderly resistance is weak, the mortality rate is high, the young people are generally strong resistance, easier to be cured, and from a human nature point of view, people will also prioritize the choice to rescue young patients. Europe and the United States are aging badly, and every year we have to pay a large sum of money for pensions, and young people can also create wealth, from the economic point of view, will also give priority to rescue young people.
Italy wants to contain the epidemic, not to make a choice, must implement strong isolation measures, otherwise the number of patients will continue to increase, if the situation is further deterioration, I am afraid that even the young people do not have the opportunity to get rescued.
It is true that the elderly make up a large proportion of the deaths in Italy, but that is not giving up on treating them, it is the low immunity of the elderly that is leading to the increased mortality rate, which has been confirmed in the Wuhan outbreak, where the elderly are more susceptible to infection with the new coronavirus, and the onset of the disease occurs very quickly after infection, and once the treatment is not timely and in place, the disease can easily develop into a critical illness until it is fatal.
On the question of whether to save the old or the young, I think this matter can not be considered purely from the aspect of value, but should be viewed from the perspective of life, in the face of life, there is no difference between the old and the young, are worthy of respect. Let us take a simple example. For example, if a young lad sacrifices his life for rescuing an elderly person who has fallen into the water, do you think this matter has any value? Its value is life first, spirit first, and it cannot be viewed purely in terms of whether it is worthwhile or not. Of course, in the absence of choice, I think it should be treated equally, who will be diagnosed long ago to save who, regardless of age, but the need to have to make a choice when we can consider some of the value of the factors, to see which one is more meaningful.
Italy's parliamentarian Berardi
Italy has no choice but to prioritize the rescue of confirmed cases of serious illnesses in the 40 to 50 year olds, a measure that began as early as ten days ago. Faced with a raging epidemic and the cold corpses of countless lost lives, Italians, immersed in great grief, had no choice but to do this to minimize the damage.
The town of Bergamo, with a population of 120,000, is known to outsiders as "Corpse Town", and only one of the five patients who passed away is in the hospital, and the rest are waiting to lose their lives at home, because hospitals simply do not have so many beds and medical staff. Public **** cemetery church hospital morgue are turned into a temporary morgue, the local government deployed military vehicles, the body will be pulled to the field cremation, the death of most of the immune system is low old people, this epidemic past, Italy will lose a whole generation.
In addition to disinfecting the city streets, the city streets are cold and quiet, losing the laughter of the past.
On the evening of 25th local time, the Italian House of Representatives and Senate passed a special bill on epidemic prevention, which will officially become the law of the land. The bill provides that, in addition to health problems, work or special circumstances, it is strictly prohibited for anyone to leave their place of residence, it is strictly prohibited for anyone to move, which is the most stringent in the history of Italy's "home order". Violators will be in the range of 3,000 to 5,000 euros, serious cases will be sentenced to at least three months in prison or even arrested and sentenced, as a so-called "free and democratic" European countries, to do this step, is tantamount to breaking the boat, with the virus to the death.
As of 22:00 on March 27, Italy's new crown pneumonia confirmed cases of 80,589 cases, the number of deaths 8,215 cases, the proportion of deaths has been more than 10%, the mayor of Bergamo Giorgio. The mayor of Bergamo, Giorgio Gori, has said that 75% of patients die at home without being diagnosed. More sadly, 6,205 medical workers have been infected in the course of treating patients, and 39 have lost their lives, said Italian parliamentarian Giorgio Bellotti, who broke down in tears during his speech, thanking all the people who do not give up the resistance and saying they will never give up hope.
As of 12 a.m. on March 27, Italy has accumulated 80,589 cases of new crowns diagnosed, including 8,215 deaths, with a mortality rate of 10.2 percent!
The reason for this situation is because Italy has a large elderly population, and its degree of aging is second only to Japan in the world, with the elderly over 65 accounting for 22.5% of the total population, while the elderly over 60 accounted for 28.6% of the total population, and Italy's total population of more than 60 million people, which calculates the number of its elderly population totaled up to more than 17 million.
And the elderly immunity is poor, will naturally become the main target of the new crown virus, and because Italy is in the period of the outbreak of the epidemic, the new crown of the patient has increased dramatically, its national health care system are overloaded, has been overwhelmed, many elderly patients with the new crown can not be treated in time, can only be delayed at home into a serious illness, in the end did not wait for hospital beds but waited for the rows and rows of coffin.
According to international students in Italy, where he is ambulance sirens are heard from morning to night, there are significantly fewer people on the streets than before, and there are significantly more people wearing masks.
There is a saying that does not hit the south wall will not turn back, this time Italy is hit a head, very tragic, and the epidemic is still spreading, this time the medical system is difficult to do in a timely manner to receive a huge number of patients, so there can only be some trade-offs.
Is it better to treat the young or rescue the old first? It's a tough choice that no health care worker wants to make, but the epidemic is not waiting for anyone to make a choice, and the Italian health care system has generally decided to treat young people first because they are more resistant and can be discharged from hospitals quickly, freeing up beds for older patients and improving the utilization of health care resources.
Not coincidentally, Spain and other European countries in the face of excess patients also choose to save the young first, this is no way out, if there is enough capacity, I believe that any hospital in any country will not give up any of the new crown patients, so here is nothing to do with morality, to choose the most efficient rescue program is the biggest good deed!
The epidemic has no mercy on earth, I believe that Italy will be able to tide over the difficulties, go!
Tell the truth, tell the truth, no nonsense, no platitudes, let's say a little bit of human language today that we can all understand, hello I am your president.
We all know that Italy is currently affected by the new Crown Pneumonia epidemic, with a high percentage of deaths, basically no diagnosis of 10 people after one of them died, in this case exactly what is the trade-off.
Some people think that the elderly are aging, while children are the flowers of the future, and should make a choice between them, but in the case of the epidemic, this role is not helpful, because the virus does not choose the elderly to attack, but protects the children.
In the case of C.P.D., we see once again that the law of nature is that we have to adapt to nature, and that human beings don't have a choice.
This means that the possibility of human beings changing the natural conditions is minimal, although there is artificial rainfall, although there is an ideal of rich Mars to move to Mars, although we are currently *** with the resistance to the epidemic, but in fact, little is known about the new coronary pneumonia.
So in the absence of an effective vaccine, all we can do is go all out and actively cooperate with experts to prevent and control the disease.
Especially under the influence of this epidemic, we can see that the United States has always been the boss of the United States also bowed down, so that in front of the nature of all the great are small.
Although we can see that in March the US and China announced that a new official pneumonia vaccine had entered clinical trials, so far there has been no reliable solution to the disease.
That is to say that the artificial choice of whether to keep the old or the young in this situation is really a nonsense, and in a private setting there is no doubt that it is a case of survival of the fittest.
To put it simply, if the resistance is stronger people have the right to survive, if the resistance is weaker then face greater risks, and not who can decide to stay who.
Comprehensively: under the influence of the epidemic, the laws of nature will always remain the same, that is to say, follow the trend of survival, against the trend of death, in this case manpower is minimal, especially under the influence of the epidemic, which we see more understandable and more thorough.
We in China respect the old and love the young, and what does Italy say?
The oldest member of the family is a treasure! And children and young people are the hope of the family, the future of the country. No one can throw away, but sometimes it is no one can save ah! This is a great disaster for the family, a great misfortune for the country.
A country obsessed with the pursuit of human rights, did not listen to the advice, regret too late!
From the point of view of the aging of the Italian population, it is better to preserve hope and the future! Do older people think so too?