A Few Things To Learn From Italy On The CoronaVirus Pandemic ~ Valero Capraro

A Few Things To Learn From Italy On The CoronaVirus Pandemic ~ Valero Capraro

Before you start reading, it is important to note that the message here is clear; It is not to cause panic but to make us take the Covid-19 pandemic more seriously in Nigeria.

It’s not just a flu.
Stay at home.
Don’t let the virus spread exponentially.

Exactly one month ago Italy 🇮🇹 found it’s first case of #coronavirus. I’ll tell you what happened in only one month. I hope you can learn from our mistakes.

At the end of the second week, it became clear that the virus had spread across several regions in northern Italy. The dead toll touched 50 a day. The Italian government tried to lock down the whole Lombardy plus several provinces.

But the right-wing populists had the brilliant idea to pass to the media a draft of the law, before it became active. People panicked and tried to leave Lombardy before it became red zone.

Just three days after, the death toll jumped from 50 to 200 a day. A few cases started appearing outside the red zone. The prime minister, Giuseppe Conte suddenly announced the total lockdown of Italy.

The fourth week, the health system collapsed in some towns in Northern Italy. In Bergamo, you have to wait 7 hours for an ambulance. 87 per cent of people/victims die in their homes, because they didn’t make it to the hospitals.

Hospitals are extrafull, there is no space even for the dead. I’m not exaggerating. The military had to come and take the dead away with the trucks..

In the meantime, a lot of people started getting sick in the south of Italy. Today came out a statistics showing that many of these people are the parents and the relatives of those who fled Lombardy the night before the Lombardy lockdown, exactly two weeks ago.

Today is one month. And we had a new record of 627 dead in one day.

Yesterday it was 487.

Also: one supermarket had to close because an employee got sick and in this case one has to close the whole supermarket. This is really bad if starts happening at a large scale. No food.

The message is clear.
It’s not just a flu.
Stay at home.
Don’t let the virus spread exponentially.
A small sacrifice today for a huge benefit tomorrow.