In Italy, to the best of our knowledge, the COVID-19 epidemic started not later than 1 January. Someone even supposes that SARS-CoV-2 reached the Lombardy region on December. It is not by chance that Lombardy keeps on being the most affected region. The lockdowns started on March. Before that moment, no restriction had been imposed to citizens, who had been free to gather everywhere (restaurants, pubs, dance clubs, even stadiums) without maintaining any safety interpersonal distance, without wearing any medical device (such as masks and gloves), attributing symptoms such as cough, tiredness, fever, dyspnoea to the seasonal flu. Moreover, all the industries (manufacturing, processing, automotive) had been open, all the means of transport had been kept fully operational. Last but not least, physicians, nurses and social-health operators had not been formally alerted: in other terms, they had not been asked to abide by any specific emergency protocol. Now, in the light of what just underlined (2 months without any restriction whatsoever), taking into account the fact that, for COVID-19, the estimated mean incubation time is 5.5 days, a colossal catastrophe should have occurred. Fortunately (but paradoxically), the scenario has been far different from the one just hypothesized, and the number of deaths started progressively increasing, especially in northern Italy, from March onwards. How come? Is there a reasonable explanation to this phenomenon?
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Free Will