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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBergamo, Italy newspaper obits - one month ago compared to today
Link to tweet
Ben Phillips @benphillips76
Graphs are useful but to really get what that rising curve is, have a look at the obituaries page of this
Bergamo daily newspaper, comparing one from February with one from now
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11:46 AM - Mar 14, 2020
Jesus Christ.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)K&R. n/t
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Very impactful. And very sad.
tblue37
(65,393 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)Especially when you realize their loved ones probably couldnt have the traditional funeral for them.
CanonRay
(14,104 posts)that says it all.
edhopper
(33,582 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)This could be a rolling pandemic with multiples waves that lasts many months.
I sure hope not, but everyone should give some thought to it, and see where it's going as time rolls along.
Some families will have multiple patients. Time to keep extended families in the loop too.
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)Love Phoebe Snow. It made me weep again. I closed my eyes to listen to it, and the image of the pages being turned and turned and turned kept playing in my mind.
All of these people were going about their lives, never knowing there was a monster lurking out there.
I think this video of the obituaries has impacted me more than anything else. It made it personal. To see all those names and faces. I don't know any of them, but I weep for them.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)We're headed for 1918 with morons at the federal level. We have to take care of each other without getting too close.
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)For some reason, looking at those pages made me think of 9-11, and how the whole world came together to help us.
If not for that horrid person sitting in our White House, we would be fighting this as a global community. And that's the way it should be. I hope that somehow, the saner heads in this country will win out, and we will fight this together. I don't want to see anyone lose their loved ones.
Chainfire
(17,549 posts)That is it.
paleotn
(17,930 posts)of what our ancestors experienced in the late 1340's. The Black Death.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)That made me tear up. Those are people's loved ones.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)You could tell from the pics.
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)DemoTex
(25,397 posts)And I think of Bach's Actus Tragicus and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. All three extremely sad works, for me. Especially Actus Tragicus
GopherGal
(2,008 posts)By about page 6 or so, I was just thinking "please stop, please stop" hoping that was the end.
Anyone speak enough Italian to known what he says at the end about influenza?