Ineffective lockdown, now enough state paternalism: the liberal path of responsibility
On the pandemic front we have now reached a point where the acknowledgment of the uselessness of rigid forms of lockdown , in Italy and abroad, is increasingly widespread, has now become mainstream, as shown by a very recent study you mentioned. the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal . We are understanding how locking people up at home and forcing certain economic activities to lower the shutters does not serve to contain infections and deaths. On the contrary, most of the time the infection occurs within the home, and forcing people to shut up in their homes worsens the health picture, as well as devastating the economy.
The first openings sanctioned by the Draghi government are not in fact causing the cataclysm foreseen by the tricksters in effective permanent service, namely the various Massimo Galli and Andrea Crisanti. The "closurists" of our house, to try to hold up the television comparisons, cite Europe. In the Old Continent, according to them, similar or even more severe measures than the Italian ones would have been adopted, so our country can do nothing but adapt to the very theoretical common sense of its European partners. Meanwhile, given that the lockdown alone, not accompanied by an efficient vaccination campaign and the promotion of home care, does more damage than the same virus, if we have to do like others, or others do like us, it only means that we are all wrong together. passionately, both us and others. And it would be good for someone, in good old Europe, to start changing their course.
To tell the truth, with all due respect to the various Gauls and Pregliasco, some lights have already been lit on the Continent and in some places we are returning to reason. In the Netherlands, Spain and elsewhere, all the most severe anti- Covid restrictions are being lifted . It is in the Iberian Peninsula, specifically in the Community of Madrid, that Isabel Diaz Ayuso, from the Popular Party, triumphed in the local elections. This young and promising political figure embodies what not only Spain would need today, but all of Europe, including Italy. That is, the liberal approach in the management of the pandemic, which is realized by certainly providing some sensible precautions, so it does not "deny" anything, but avoids annihilating the freedom and dignity of the individual, and letting them fall into the abyss the economy.
There must be, there is a middle way between the no-vax conspiracy, or those African countries that even allow vaccines to expire, and the health care terrorism of Roberto Speranza. It is the way of living with the virus, which today, unlike last summer, could be easier if only we became a little faster with vaccinations, perhaps learning from the British and Israelis. Even our tele-virologists have hypothesized on more than one occasion the coexistence with Covid , but then, we know this, pontificate on everything and the opposite of everything, contradicting themselves with a certain constancy. We must return to living in the name of freedom, individual responsibility and common sense.
As happened with AIDS, even in the face of Covid-19 the majority of the population is now aware of both the risks and the precautionary measures to be taken individually. Anyone who has an elderly or vulnerable person at home knows how to behave. Some indifference is there and there will always be, but an entire nation cannot be punished. The roads inevitably have rules, which are however disregarded by some motorists, but it would never occur to us to deny the car to everyone because of a few foolish people.
So we would no longer like to hear the following statement: “Let's open, but it's not a free all” . Just a few days ago, this sentence was re-launched by Luigi Di Maio. That a character with many shortcomings like Di Maio can afford to teach us how to live is already a very disarming fact, but the real question is that we can no longer accept state paternalism, and it doesn't matter if it comes from the foreign minister. or by other more authoritative institutional figures. Those who insist on a bogus rigor line and claim to re-educate citizens, in addition to not defeating the pandemic, if anything foments indiscipline and pushes even the tiniest to break little by little all those most absurd impositions, dictated more by ideology than science.
Mario Draghi is not entirely wrong when he supports gradual opening, but also the commitment to never go back, never to close again. However, we hope not to see the following threat wielded again: "If you don't behave well, it closes up and it will be your fault, dear Italians" . Also because, beyond the pandemically correct vulgate, all the waves of Covid that have brought Italy back to its knees in recent months have occurred more for the indolence of the leaders of the nation than for the irresponsibility of the Italians.
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