If the goals are not stated, it may be because the Green Pass was the end, not the means
Good governance practices and the rule of law would like that in an emergency, the measures adopted to deal with risks and allow for an improvement of the situation are aimed at achieving a concrete objective, made explicit when the same measures take shape and are adopted.
An example could be the closure of schools when an unexpected heavy snow falls on any Italian city. Clearly, once the snow has passed and the streets have been sprinkled with salt, normalcy resumes and the students return to the classroom as early as the next day. The goal of the closure of the schools is the safety of the movements, therefore, once reached, no one would ever dream of moving the reopening even further for obscure reasons.
It was hoped that these common sense considerations would also apply to the Green Pass that the government imposed on citizens to carry out even the most essential activities. Provision more than questionable, of course, but here we do not want to go into the merits of the absurdity of tying one's life to a QR code. Instead, we are analyzing the necessary link between the emergency measure and the objective to be achieved: during the summer there was talk, in fact, of a target of 80 per cent of Italians vaccinated as a threshold reached which all restrictions would be lifted and consequently also the green certificate. Well, the target was moved in the autumn first to 85 and then to 90 percent, but for some months it has become a mysterious object.
No one knows anymore what the final goal of these measures is, probably because this goal no longer exists and the measure itself has become the ultimate goal. There is no shortage of clues: for some weeks the hypothesis of making the Green Pass validity indefinite for those who have received three doses has been aired (since there are no other doses at the moment: all strictly scientific, right?). The decision was taken in the last Council of Ministers. One of the two: either among the consultants of Palazzo Chigi there is some scientist so enlightened as to foresee a perennial pandemic emergency to justify this extension, or the Green Pass has itself become the aim.
The most distracted could welcome this news with relief: "Finally I no longer have to worry about deadlines and new doses of vaccine", is the reasoning that many would tend to do at first glance, without realizing, however, the serious implications of such a measure. . If the Green Pass no longer expires, for example, does it by chance mean that it will also remain beyond the state of emergency? Or that the same state of emergency (which is not reflected in reality) will be further extended beyond March 31st? In short, most likely we are now in an emergency indefinitely .
We must oppose a model of society in which everything is subordinated to the correct functioning of a black and white square on your smartphone , because this is the real pandemic communism that many dream of at the Ministry of Health and beyond. It is necessary to be aware of the condition in which Italians have been finding themselves for a few months now and to realize that, if for any reason an app , telephone battery or internet malfunction occurs, automatically the bi or tri vaccinated citizen he would instantly lose all his rights and be unable to carry out any activity.
The mechanical way in which we have our QR code read at the entrance of bars, restaurants and other public establishments must not become a habit, but resound like the alarm bell of an omnipresent state, which always acts for your good, presumed, and compresses your spaces of individual freedom to the benefit, always presumed, of the "collectivity".
Even in a state of emergency there are things that the state should never be allowed to do and that unfortunately have now cleared customs. Dangerous precedents have been created which authorize the Leviathan to take any action, surreptitious or otherwise, to push the individual to adapt to his requests. If a tool like the Green Pass (which for a couple of days has prevented healthy but unvaccinated citizens from working and bringing bread home) was designed to induce Italians to get vaccinated, then in the near future it could be used to push towards another behavior or fulfillment.
To the few free voices, media and otherwise, the task of highlighting all this and of representing points of reference for the defense of freedom.
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