AS I KEEP SAYING — AND ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT THEY’RE A MUCH OLDER POPULATION ON AVERAGE — PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ITALY IS NOT THE US:  Critical care beds: this may be part of what’s wrong in Italy.

Yes, I know. I KNOW. All sorts of people have assured you that Italy’s health care is better than ours. What they’re not telling you is that part of their parameter for “better” is a robust component of government financed and run health care.

And by the way if one more communist democrat tells me that this Xi-Flu means we need single-payer healthcare, I’m going to lose whatever little cool I have left.  The only thing government-run health does better than the free market is kill people. In fact, that’s the one thing government does better than the free market always. The more power you give government the more chances of mass graves. They might be filled with grandma’s triaged out of existence, or with political opponents, or with yes, but the more powerful the government the greater chance they exist.