De facto lockdown and regulatory paralysis: closing with Green Pass and quarantines, opening the endemic phase
Many people are asking for a return to normalcy, the one we knew before Covid . The regions ask for it without particular distinction as to political affiliation, starting with Bonaccini for whom "the color areas no longer make sense" , and the Veneto of Zaia and Piedmont, where the request is even more specific, echo it. for the simplification of the rules on quarantine and isolation of positives, which are paralyzing the economy; a part of the healthcare world asks this, first of all Bassetti followed by Locatelli first and then Vaia. The latter comes to deem it appropriate to eliminate the quarantine, for the vaccinated, after 5 days and without the need for a molecular or fast test that gives a negative result (as already for weeks in the US). Companies and common sense are asking for it, because one cannot live eternally in a climate of terror, fear, conspiracy, and above all economic and social paralysis.
It is not a trivial matter, because the world of work is suffering a de facto lockdown and due to the regulatory fundamentalism in which we have slipped from March 2020 to today. The overlapping of norms, decrees, circulars, modifications, amendments and schizophrenic interpretations, and then the continuous changes on the Green Pass and its elastic expansion without a real health confirmation, have ended up making the current situation an inextricable key to the problem. .
Some time ago, right here on Atlantico , we compared the use of the Green Pass to the image of Filini and Fantozzi fishing, wrapped in the thin thread that twists more, tightens and ends up blocking the two unfortunates with each move. Here, we have arrived at this. To the ossification of methods, to normative paralysis, because even a legal practitioner finds it enormously difficult to extricate himself from this jumble of rules.
Many of these measures, then, have even been dismantled by court sentences: this is how, for example, what happened for the " Tachipirina and vigilant waiting" protocol (as can be read in yesterday 's article by Andrea Venanzoni ) intended for give the minister of health some headaches.
In my professional experience I have found continuous feedback of this situation. Daily problems for companies and private citizens, on which rule is applied, with what effect, and if the normal Green Pass , the super, the mega, or some other legislative engineering tool is now valid: we ended up creating a a system where legal certainty has disappeared (because if there is an interpretative problem it means that diametrically opposite applications can be had), but above all a real minefield for economic recovery has been created.
You have to start on a completely different path. After two years of the pandemic, the situation has undoubtedly changed. We have a vaccination obligation for those over 50, and about 90 percent of vaccinated people over 12, and this makes measures such as quarantine, the obligation to swab or the use of the Green Pass really not very sensible; the latter, then, considered both as a surreptitious vaccination obligation as well as a form of control for the positives and the sick, appears completely inadequate to the current situation and has turned into a means of compressing the sphere of individual freedom.
Let's face it without too many problems: we are tired of this climate. We must be able to go back to life, without having to put up with the daily media call to illnesses, symptoms, hospitalizations, “boom” of infections, and anything else that is making the climate more bleak than a John Carpenter film. Resume normal life, starting the transition path towards the endemic management of Covid , or downgrading the disease to common influence (as already hypothesized in Spain by Sanchez, for one thing) and abandoning these Orwellian population controls: it still makes sense use of the green pass in a country where the population is made up of vaccinated or immunized in a natural way? Obviously not, unless you want it as a tool for other purposes .
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