If the vaccines work, no more terrorism on variants and infections. Politicians and the media come to terms with it
If there is one thing that unites the majority of commentators, perhaps divided between aperturists and closurists in the face of the usefulness or otherwise of the various forms of lockdown , it is the recognition of the substantial effectiveness of vaccines. In fact, beyond the media chaos that arose around the AstraZeneca vaccine, the sad disappearance of the eighteen-year-old girl from Genoa and the questionable persistence , no less fundamentalist than the no-vax conspiracy, of those who would like to vaccinate, if they could, even babies without asking too many questions about the risk-benefit balance on the very young, the anti- Covid vaccination is able to ward off the most serious degenerations caused by the virus all over the world, i.e. hospitalizations in intensive care and deaths.
The British example is quite illuminating. The United Kingdom, along with Israel and the United States, was among the fastest in the world in vaccinating its population, but it was also the first country to be affected by the so-called Delta variant of Covid-19 . The infections have started to rise again, but not the intensive care and not even the deaths, so the positive function of vaccines is starting to be a fact. Since they are much more pragmatic than those who live on this side of the Channel, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced not only the start of unspecified reopening, also because in the reign of Elizabeth II almost everything has already reopened from a quite a bit, but the elimination, starting from next July 19, of all anti- Covid measures, including the obligation of the mask indoors and physical distancing. Therefore, it seems that all the conditions are in place to finally start looking at the present and the future with greater tranquility, without having to go back to the nefarious aspects of the very recent past, that is the mortification of freedom.
Yet, especially in Italy, in some sectors of politics and the world of information there is still the desire to maintain a climate of perpetual emergency, to continue to make people live under a cloak of fear and uncertainty. People still want to remain resigned and fearful, even if vaccination is making the variants of Covid , Delta and others less dangerous, as pointed out by EMA , the European Medicines Agency, which confirms protection after two doses of vaccine. Unfortunately, media and psychological terrorism produces its own poisoned fruits, in fact there are not a few who already surrender to the idea of new closures for next autumn. They already give them as inevitable and they almost seem to have gotten used to periodically losing their freedom, but for no reason in the world one cannot accept an existence characterized by the alternation between summers that are all in all free and autumns and winters under house arrest.
Politics and information have the duty of realism, that is, to tell the truth to the country, to invite individual responsibility, to underline that there is nothing at the moment, including variations, that justifies a return to the emergency. There is an emergency only when the hospitals are overcrowded and hearses queue outside them. Boris Johnson has well understood the difference between contagion, perhaps even sustained, and the aggravation of the symptoms of the disease. In Italy part of politics and various media continue to sow fear and confuse ideas. So far the damage to a certain way of communicating has already been quite huge, from the confusion about AstraZeneca to the terror about the now known Delta variant, as if in the United Kingdom they were dying like flies, ending with the creeping idea of a destined sociality. to be compressed for a long time to come.
Do not be surprised if people, constantly repressed and depressed, should also lose faith in vaccines. If the aforementioned normality is always postponed, what's the point of getting vaccinated? The writer, it has probably been understood, is the polar opposite of the no-vax , but could understand the arrival of widespread frustration about the usefulness, at least in Italy, of the vaccination campaign.
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