Word of advice from quarantine
Just because it’s happening in Italy right now doesn’t mean it’ll stop here. We started off underestimating this as you are, look where we are now. We’re under complete lockdown, police patrolling, we risk incarceration if we leave unauthorised, we can’t leave our house unless it’s life or death. We did not come to these measures lightly, our country does not have the economic strength to shut down the whole nation without dire consequences, but still we felt it was absolutely necessary to implement these rules. Despite having a complex bureaucratic system we pulled this off within days. These are the most restrictive laws implemented since wwII in our country- last time was during fascism, go figure how big of a decision this was and how urgent a situation this really is.
Why are we taking this so seriously you might ask when countless world leaders are so sure everything’s being blown out of proportion and there’s no real emergency ?
We were that country a month ago, till it happened to us.
We first underestimated the virus when it hit, we started taking appropriate measures and that’s when our economy took a hit and that’s when we fucked up and tried to play it off as nothing. We paid the price, but since then we’ve been taking all the appropriate measures and the WHO noted that we were reacting very well. Yet we’re still in this situation. Why? Cause the virus is extremely contagious and the number of infections and deaths continues to rise because our health system, although it’s one of the best in the world according to the WHO, was not built to handle this kind of numbers. No health care system is, that’s why it’s absolutely important to limit the spread of this virus.
This is not just a flu, we do not know its definitive mortality rate yet. We won’t know the real consequences of this disease till at least a year down the line. As of right now, March 12, Italy alone is counting over 1000 deaths and 15000 infected. We can’t continue to underestimate it.
We’ve gotten to the point where we have such few ICU beds still available that doctors are only treating who’s more likely to survive. A healthy 50 year old will have priority over a 27 year old with asthma.
Doctors have to choose who gets to live.
This is why it’s so fucking important to prevent this virus from spreading any more than it already has: take things seriously, you might survive it but there are millions out there that won’t.
Some ways to prevent more infections from taking place are these:
keep at least a meter distance between you and anyone else
avoid heavily populated areas
look out for symptoms (fever, cough, difficulty breathing)
IF YOU SUSPECT YOU HAVE IT DON’T GO TO THE DOCTORS OR HOSPITALS as you will infect more people, among them those who are at higher risk and essential medical staff. Call the appropriate authorities in your area and follow their instructions
wash your hands thoroughly and regularly for at least 20 seconds
change your clothes after being outside
IF YOU ARE PUT IN QUARANTINE, RESPECT IT
IF YOU ARE TOLD NOT TO LEAVE YOUR TOWN DO NOT LEAVE
. peace out people, hope this is somewhat useful, don’t make the same mistakes we did .
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