About twenty general practitioners sit around a long meeting table at the main hospital in Monza outside Milan. They cry to me: you have to tell the world, you have to tell Sweden that this is waiting for you if you are not prepared.

The doctors talk about the state of war that prevails on the intensive. And if the enemy is a virus that can only be stopped if people stay at home long enough.

One year of intensive care patients - one month

It is only when I am on the intensive with double mouthguards, double gloves, shoe covers, hat, apron, that I first see the battlefield with my own eyes. In bed next to bed are old people with hoses down their throats trying to get just enough air to survive. Almost half will not do.

I, who rarely see people in this state, are actually affected by dizziness. But also the doctors, who still work daily with this, are taken - by the amount of seriously ill patients. One year of intensive care patients has arrived in just one month. The head of the clinic says that it is important for Sweden to know that you cannot take in too much. All places will be needed. Sooner or later.

Drones should check that people stay at home

But most importantly, make sure people understand why they should stay at home. Only then will the war against the virus win, say the Italian doctors. From a balcony in a residential building a few floors above the street I hear a thumping. Thump, thump, thump. A young man jumps jump rope on his balcony. He has chosen to obey the call to stay.

Below the test drive the carabiners, Italian well-dressed military police, a drone that will be used to check that people obey and stay at home. Those who leave without valid reasons can now be fined SEK 30,000 or imprisonment.

Inside the intensive, two lights on the respirator connected to an elderly man at the bottom of the corner flash. He only has a few minutes to live, the doctors say. Before we go, the nurses screen off his bed. And outside the hospital, two ambulances will soon roll in with new patients.