Here’s how the government lost the battle to “save Christmas”
As is well known, the metaphor of war has often been used to describe the pandemic. It therefore seems reasonable to refer to this narrative register to describe the failure of the operation started exactly one year ago, with the famous Vaccine Day , when the European vaccination campaign that should have represented the return to normality began.
A first failure of this operation was the failure to "recruit" a significant part of the population to the vaccination campaign, despite the formidable argument available to the protective efficacy of the various vaccines against the most serious manifestations of the disease. Instead, it was preferred to use unnecessarily solidarity propaganda tones – as if getting vaccinated were to constitute a revolutionary act to build a better world and not a health treatment to protect oneself and at the most to protect the most loved ones – and subsequently stigmatize all "reluctant" and "defeatists" , neglecting the natural radicalization effect that this always entails.
A second failure was the erroneous planning of the vaccination campaign from two important points of view.
– The first concerns the continuous change of the final objective, with the shift forward of the percentage of the population to be vaccinated, which has had the indirect effect of demoralizing the troops, who see the goal of victory move away each time and, above all, they begin to think that their staff faces war without a precise strategy: no one likes to be led into battle by someone who seems to have no idea what to do.
– The second concerns the temporal moment of the introduction of the Green Pass – here we will leave out all the critical aspects of this measure (in the opinion of the writer, hatefully constricting and invasive of the freedom of therapeutic choice in the absence of a legal obligation) – which it took place, as will be remembered, at the end of last July, but it had already been discussed for at least a couple of weeks. Therefore the so-called "gentle push" to vaccination, that is the compelling effect to undergo a specific health treatment in order to avoid negative effects distinct and different from those produced by the disease, was given in the height of summer with the consequence that a significant number of individuals he had the maximum vaccination protection before the arrival of General Winter who, as military history teaches, is capable of causing radical upheavals in planned war campaigns without duly taking them into account.
It may be objected that no one could have known this before. However, this is not correct. In fact, without getting lost in the forest of statements made, as early as August Israel began administering the third dose due to the progressive loss of protection of the vaccine and numerous studies resumed in the press confirmed this finding. In fact, several commentators highlighted the temporal discrepancy between vaccination coverage and the validity of the Green Pass and the risk of engaging in risky behaviors due to a false security of immunity.
A third reason for the failure of the operation concerns the defeat of the battle "Saving Christmas", which was to represent the strategic objective that should not be absolutely failed in order not to make the efforts made in vain in the eyes of the army. If one compares the vaccinated to soldiers in the trenches who await the end of the incessant heavy artillery fire (the vaccination campaign) to launch the final assault, one can easily understand the state of frustration of the same when at the end one realizes that at most it has gained a few meters: it is therefore substantially at the same point as when the carpet bombing began. And this does not mean, of course, to state that the "bombs" were not effective, but that the strategy was obviously wrong, assuming it had one.
And perhaps this is precisely what is causing despair in the troops long tried by two years of pounding propaganda and containment measures that are mainly carrying out the task of complicating life rather than fighting the contagion. Paradigmatic of this seems to be the withdrawal before the start of the Christmas break by the parents of the children from school for the fear not that they will fall ill, but that they will be forced to quarantine for a contact with a positive.
The final hope is that our strategists will not remain prisoners of their mistakes, stubborn to repeat them, perhaps aggravating the limits already set out, as the progressive adoption of further superlatively named certificates seems to indicate ( super green pass ; mega green pass ; super mega green pass etc.) which would add confusion to an already chaotic situation. Equally useless seems to be to insist on the line of constricting persuasion, perhaps with the extension of the vaccination obligation, which would have the particular singularity of being the only one in our legal system relating to a treatment that does not guarantee immunity, unlike all other vaccines are mandatory, and, above all, it must be administered frequently, perhaps two or three times a year.
If the climate of collective hysteria ceased, anyone would realize that this would be unreasonable and disproportionate and could also lead to a singular type of legal dispute, not so much that against adverse reactions that would be guaranteed by the indemnity protection provided by law in the case of mandatory vaccines. : the claim for damages against the State by individuals (or their heirs) who have completed the vaccination cycle in the manner and time prescribed by law and who nevertheless have seriously contracted the disease. Perhaps it may be useful to remember who the enemy of this war is: the virus. And any strategy to be developed must have the main objective of defeating it, even partially, that is, with the progressive reduction of its damage, without losing our lifestyle, our democracy, our humanity. Otherwise, in any case we would have lost.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Atlantico Quotidiano at the URL https://www.atlanticoquotidiano.it/quotidiano/ecco-come-il-governo-ha-perso-la-battaglia-per-salvare-il-natale/ on Fri, 31 Dec 2021 03:45:00 +0000.