I don't know where you live but here in Milan most health workers were busy managing a tremendous influx of covid patients, so all other non essential medical sector were shut down or working at reduced capacity. I have a personal friend who is a pediatric surgeon that has been working in covid section for the last 5 weeks. Many health care facilities would only treat covid patients, while few others would remain open for the remaining patients. But during the exponential phase it was risky to even brake an arm as hospital had to prioritize.
so please stop telling alternative misinformation bullshit.
if you at least took the time to read mainstream information before hinting at "alternative misinformation " you would be less insulting, while looking a tad smarter.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-h...t-at-hidden-toll-of-coronavirus-idUKKCN21R13C
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/doc...s-er-visits-drop-heart-attacks-dont-stop.html
You can look up yourself photos of empty or nearly empty emergency rooms in Madrid, from last week.
I live there, it is one of the few cities that saw its health sector initially overwhelmed by coronavirus cases yet that time has passed now, they are closing parts of the Ifema temporary hospital and last week already it was mentioned in news the temporary morgue in the ice skating rink being close. Yet at 8pm still a whole bunch of people go to their balcony for their most exciting daily activity and clap in honour of the health care workers who are happy for folks to stay under house arrest so they get less work.
Personally I find the video in the link below disgusting ( if you´re italian i don´t need to translatye it to you). It was from Huelva at the very beginning of the quarantine, a part of Spain which was never hit hard by the virus, and didn´t see its services overwhelmed, yet its population has suffered the strictest quarantine in Western Europe like the rest of the country and we can´t trust the "hard working spanish" medics to be in a hurry to face again the usual tragic mess emergency wards are.
www.eldiario.es/andalucia/huelva/Personal-Riotinto-muestra-urgencias-ciudadanos_0_1006149892.html
Hard to say which cities would have seen their health care system devastated without lockdown, Stockholm so far managed it pretty well but obviously others wouldn´t have. I´ve been in an hospital and a private clinic at the beginning of the crisis in Madrid, when it started to look very bad, not at the emergency ward though, and the places were almost empty of patients (most appointments had been cancelled) yet well staffed. An aunt is working as a nurse in the emergency department of 2 different hospitals in Southern Catalonia, only about 180kms from hard hit Barcelona, yet there the hospitals apparently were never close to panic.
Besides I´m not surprised a Swiss government official qualified Italy and Spain situation as a political spectacle, while explaining in Swiss they wouldn´t force the population into house arrest. Italy and Spain (more Spain probably) look once again more like banana republics than deserving members of the EU.
