KrazyP wrote:ArtMorte wrote:KrazyP wrote:
I disagree. A medical catastrophe can happen at any time. The health care system is under-resourced and thats the real problem.
Look at Japan, South Korea, Singapore.....those countries are doing ok. Whats the difference?
They took earlier containment measures. It's not because their healthcare system has so much more capacity to treat critically ill people than other countries.
In Italy they need army trucks to transport the bodies and crematoriums running around the clock are not able to cremate all the dead. You cannot argue that that sort of capacity should be the norm at all times, because that's just not tied to reality.
The situation in Italy is the result of a lack of initial reaction, suspect health care system and perhaps more of a carefree atitude of the population until things escalated.
When all is said and done, this virus will show us which governments and health care systems are prepared and those who are not.
I'm from Canada myself and the health care system here is free for all which is great but I still think its under-resourced and built around the idea of keeping the status quo which is not effective when something unexpected happens.
It also has to do with Italians being older in general and having a higher number of habitual smokers in their population.
