It is difficult for anyone in Italy to choose this point, because it is related to the relationship between morality and emotion, and also to human life. From a rational point of view, those seriously ill elderly people with COVID-19 virus are likely to die. Why do you say that? Because from the data, most of the deaths are older people, while younger people can either recover themselves or recover through the treatment right of drugs. For example, Italy can only make a choice when resources are very tight. If Italy has a large number of drug resources, or a large number of medical personnel, medical equipment and beds for these diagnosed patients, then everything can be solved, but the problem is the speed at which the number of diagnosed patients is increasing now.
For Italy, spending those resources on the treatment of seriously ill elderly people may not bring back their lives in the end, but it is obviously more meaningful if these drugs are used on young people or people who can live longer, but in any case, it is unacceptable to the families and friends of those elderly people, because all lives are equal, and they cannot give up treatment on their own initiative because their time has not changed much.
But there is no way, the current medical equipment and materials and personnel can only be used in more valuable places, and those doctors can only focus on patients who are easier to treat. There is no doubt that such a decision by Italy is indeed too cruel and cruel.
But I wonder why they couldn't take protective measures earlier. After all, China has given these countries a month to prepare. When they know that China is infected by COVID-19 virus, their own country should do a good job of protection. The country should spread a kind of consciousness to the ordinary people. Everyone is the same in the face of the epidemic, and we must not take it lightly. If Italians had done this well and put on masks early, then this phenomenon would not have happened.