10% mortality rate from bad cases in Italy

3497 new cases just today in Italy. 1441 people have died so far there.

It appears that the number of bad cases has completely overwhelmed the hospitals there and created this 10% death rate among bad cases of coronavirus there.

So, it's really important to keep the case loads low enough here in the U.S. so hopefully all people can be treated here in the U.S. that need to be which is why Schools and businesses are closing for now.

Triage is the worst in Northern Italy where if a 30 year old and a 50 year old and an 80 year old are competing for the same respirator, the treatment likely would go to the 30 year old and the 50 and 80 year old would be left to die. This is what we are trying to avoid here in the U.S. with this out of control situation with enraged relatives that doctors and then police are going to have to deal with when they find out.

It's really important to avoid rage riots of loved ones enraged because their loved ones were not allowed to be saved.

If you want to see what Triage is like watch Pearl Harbor just after the bombs drop when they are triaging wounded soldiers. This might not be current now but then they took lipstick and wrote on the forehead of each wounded soldier and then put and F for fatal, an M for needs Morphine for pain relief or they might say put an O maybe for needs to be operated on etc.

So, Triage is a wartime system of saving those that can be saved (given the available doctors, nurses, medicines and potential treatments), and allowing the rest to die quickly in kindness to them.

If you are a trained Nurse or Doctor or Paramedic or EMT you likely were trained in regard to all this as to what you do regarding medical care when big emergencies arise.

It's just that mostly these kinds of illnesses or wounds that needed treatment mostly have arrived in wartime. It is somewhat or completely uncommon since polio in the 1950s and measles in the 1950s since we had a kind of illness that affected everyone worldwide like this (sooner or later).

Countries that have had few or no cases tested so far are also likely in for it at some point in the future.

I'm not as worried about even Italy or the U.S. or France or Spain as I am about countries run by basically dictators where no truth at all is available