Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
Chris Martenson likes to say &quot;If the facts scare you, the problem isn&#x27;t with the facts&quot;. (also check out his COVID-19 updates, I think they are very well done! [0])<p>You may think &quot;it&#x27;s not here yet&quot;. It is.<p>You may think &quot;the numbers are low&quot;. They aren&#x27;t. We are failing miserably in our testing, our numbers are easily off by a factor of 10 (for infections).<p>You might not want to be &quot;weird&quot; and not want to practice social distancing. You need to.<p>You need to act when it feels too early and honestly, in the US, that was a week+ ago so at least act now.<p>I don&#x27;t say these things to whip people up in a panic, I say them because we are about to get hit hard here in the US. If you know a nurse maybe send them a text and ask how they feel. I can tell you the nurses I know are freaking out because they know we are not prepared. A have a friend who works at a big hospital. They have 2 cases (at least as of a day ago) and they almost buckled under it. They don&#x27;t have many masks, they don&#x27;t have training, and the hospital itself has no plans in place. When asked &quot;How many masks do we have?&quot; the answer (on Thursday of this week) was &quot;I don&#x27;t know&quot; from the head of infections diseases. Let that sink in. March 12th.<p>I can understand not knowing the count off the top of your head in November 2019, I can understand it in December 2019, I can still wrap my head around not knowing it in January 2020 but damn it... It&#x27;s March, you are in a meeting to discuss COVID-19 and you don&#x27;t know how many masks you have on hand?<p>The world has been warning us for months now and they had no plans for how to handle visitors. The nurses have not done n95 mask fit tests. They are not getting clear direction on how handle mask reuse. We are not prepared for this. If this hospital (which I would trust for any major procedure) is feeling the strain with 2 patients what happens when there are 4? 8? 16? 32?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLRgTUN1zz_oeQpnJxpeaEkFimDeepqyWf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLRgTUN1zz_oeQpnJxpeaE...</a>