Even the vaccinated can infect, the Green Pass only remains a cowardly blackmail
The extension of the Green Pass obligation to have access to a series of daily activities, well beyond the purpose for which it was conceived, was motivated by the most authoritative government source possible, the Prime Minister, verbatim with the "guarantee of being among non-contagious people ” – sentence not yet denied, therefore still considered valid by those who uttered it.
Now, this is clearly false, a fake news that comes from the top of the institutions, and a press worthy of the name would have asked President Draghi to account for it, in the name of correct information. Even the highly biased CNN corrected a virtually identical statement by US President Biden.
That governments try to get citizens to get vaccinated is understandable, but here we intend to discuss how . Whether it is lawful and appropriate to convince them by spreading false illusions, inaccurate information and through, as we shall see, forms of blackmail, for example by taking the exercise of fundamental freedoms hostage.
Not only is it false to say that with the Green Pass there is a "guarantee of being among non-contagious people" , but in the light of the surge in infections (fortunately not hospitalizations and deaths) in countries where vaccination rates complete in adult populations are above 70 and 80 per cent (UK and Israel), and where the Delta variant is prevalent, it is legitimate to doubt that the virus does not significantly circulate even among vaccinated people.
As a further confirmation, the statement of the US virologist Antony Fauci to Nbc arrived on Wednesday, reported yesterday by Atlantico Quotidiano . What did Fauci say? That the Delta variant is much more contagious, he changes the scenario, and overcomes the barriers that vaccinated seemed to have with the Alpha: the viral load of vaccinated infected is "exactly the same" ( "exactly the same") of unvaccinated infected.
Since the usual fact-checkers intermittently try to throw it in caciara, resorting to manipulation, confusing the reasons against the Green Pass with the arguments of the no-vax , let's try to clarify.
Fauci did not say that getting vaccinated or not being vaccinated is the same thing, that you run the same risks. Of course not, but no one has ever stated this, no one has attributed this meaning to the words of Fauci, at least not us of Atlantico Quotidiano . Fauci did not question the usefulness and importance of getting vaccinated, which on the contrary he reiterated. It is not the vaccines that fall victim to his words, but the reason given to justify the Green Pass obligation by our government.
Fauci's statements crumble a certainty passed off as granite until yesterday, namely that the difference in contagiousness between vaccinated and unvaccinated positives is of such magnitude as to justify such painful discrimination as a generalized obligation of the Green Pass , a real apartheid . This is the point.
The Green Pass was originally designed for large events – such as festivals, fairs or stadiums – with an influx of tens of thousands of people, or for getting on a plane. Situations in which those who do not want, or cannot (yes, there are also them), get the vaccine, can undergo a one-off test without too much burden and discrimination. However, the warning threshold is exceeded when the obligation is extended to daily activities and even essential services such as transport and education.
Let's not forget the context in which the American virologist uttered those words. Fauci was explaining on TV why the US CDC decided to change the guidelines on the use of masks, recommending that they become mandatory indoors even for vaccinated people. A decision that took observers by surprise and which is being discussed a lot in the United States, because it is an unexpected reversal. If the CDC, reversing a decision taken not long before, retraces its steps and recommends the use of masks even for vaccinated people, evidently it is because the virus circulates significantly among them and there is a non-negligible risk. that can be contagious.
According to ABC reports , an outbreak in Cape Cod was at the basis of the decision: 882 infected people, 74 percent of those in Massachusetts fully vaccinated. Fortunately, 7 hospitalizations and zero deaths, confirming the effectiveness of vaccines. But with the Delta variant the amount of virus in the nasopharyngeal tract is a thousand times higher.
Also two days ago, in conjunction with the decision on the masks, the US CDC also updated its report on the effectiveness of vaccines. This is the summary of the update:
“Since the latest update, data from published studies have been added that show that current licensed mRNA vaccines ( Pfizer and Moderna , ed ) provide protection against variants, including Delta , which is now dominant in the United States. The efficacy of the vaccine against hospitalization and death is high for all current variants; the data that emerge indicate a lower efficacy against infection and symptomatic disease caused by the Beta , Gamma and Delta variants compared to the original strain and the Alpha variant (…) Continuous monitoring of the efficacy of vaccines against the variants is necessary " .
The original report, prior to the new variant data, stated that "vaccinated people are far less likely than unvaccinated people to become infected and pass the virus to others," but already warned that "vaccinated people can still get infected and spread the virus. virus to others ".
The efficacy of vaccines against serious illness, hospitalization and death remains unchanged even with the variants. But the supposed benefit of the Green Pass – zeroing the circulation of the virus by admitting only vaccinated people indoors – is very uncertain, given that not only positive vaccinates can infect, but they have the same viral load in the nose as unvaccinated positives. And, of course, the risk of contagion is highest when an asymptomatic or pauci-symptomatic positive, whether vaccinated or not, does not know he is positive (otherwise he would be in isolation). In this phase, that is, when the viral load is potentially the same, the vaccine may not yet have produced its effect by differentiating the condition of the vaccinated, who is much less likely to develop a serious disease and be hospitalized, from that of the unvaccinated, who it faces much greater risks.
As for the other supposed benefit of the Green Pass – preventing the proliferation of variants – a very rapid (unrealistic) worldwide vaccination campaign in a period of low circulation, would kill the virus. In the midst of the pandemic, many scientists argue, vaccines certainly serve to save lives, but at the cost of pushing the virus to adapt and selecting the most "efficient" mutations, as the Delta variant is proving.
It is a "negative externality" of mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic, but clearly a price worth paying to save lives and reduce stress on health systems. Just be aware of it.
The likelihood of vaccinated people getting infected and contagious remains lower, but with the Delta variant it is no longer negligible, to the point of inducing the US CDC to take a hasty backtrack on the use of masks and Dr. Fauci to say what he said … Therefore, even if there is still a difference in the level of contagiousness between vaccinated and unvaccinated positives, the possibility that a vaccinated is positive and contagious is such as to make the exclusion of the unvaccinated from social life unjustified, or at least disproportionate. our government. There is not sufficient scientific basis for such a distressing measure.
Unless… unless the real motivation of this measure is much more prosaic: to encourage citizens to vaccinate themselves with blackmail. Having for the moment decided not to take the path of the obligation – constitutional pursuant to Article 32 – for a series of considerations, not least the unavailability of doses for everyone and the risk of having to assume full responsibility for the rare adverse events, the government has opted to induce people to make an individual choice through a reward / sanction system. Legitimate or not, like it or not, is the same mechanism, the same ruler-ruled relationship underlying the "social credit" system in China. It is no longer just a health measure, but a measure of "social control".
As Fabrizio Borasi masterfully explained yesterday in Atlantico Quotidiano , in the obligation of the Green Pass and more generally in the approach to the pandemic, we observe the persistence in Italy of a Counter-Reformation mentality of public power: to the government, freedom without responsibility; to citizens, responsibility without freedom. Hypocrisy in the application of the measures and "double truth", one for the "populace" and the other for the "clerics".
Now, one may think that this "blackmail" by the public power is legitimate, but not that it is a liberal policy. It is a paternalistic and authoritarian policy. Citizens-subjects are treated not as responsible adults but as children (assuming it is healthy to induce children to behave "well" through blackmail …).
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Atlantico Quotidiano at the URL http://www.atlanticoquotidiano.it/quotidiano/anche-i-vaccinati-possono-contagiare-del-green-pass-non-resta-che-un-vile-ricatto/ on Fri, 30 Jul 2021 04:04:00 +0000.