That is hysterical bollocks.
Healthcare 'as we know it' will not collapse into a fucking heap, stretched to the limit, yes, collapse, no.
Italy doesn't have enough ITU beds/respirators, hence more people are dying. We have enough.
The other factor, being trampled to death by mass hysteria, is that, because viral transmission is soaring in one country, it does not necessarily mean ditto elsewhere.
The Italians are very tactile people, they greet each other with kisses and handshakes, we, on the other hand, are miserable bastards that don't even know who they have been living next door to for the last 20 years...….
The spread in Italy may have been exacerbated by their culture rather than anything else.
People think we all need to live in a bubble, great, it passes you by but comes back again in months. Another 2 week shutdown? How many shut downs are we going to have?
Nobody really knows how to combat this, just because, elsewhere, they are shutting the stable doors long after the horse has fucked off doesn't mean that their way is going to solve it.