It was not already a country for young people, the pandemic has made it even worse
In addition to damaging health and the economy, Covid has ignited the generational clash leading it to dramatic consequences. According to the latest Censis report, 74.1 percent of young people between 18 and 34 believe that too many elderly people occupy positions of power in society. 54.3 percent believe that too much public resources are spent on the older population groups, to the detriment of the younger generations. A deep rift that is making its way into the heart of the nation, separating fathers and sons, past and future.
In the most critical phase of the health emergency, we have tried to defend the elderly from the potentially fatal danger of contagion. Today, almost two years after the first lockdown , we should pay the same attention to the other victims of this tragedy: young people, who more than others have suffered the dire consequences of the closures. The writer turns twenty in February and is a direct witness to the situation that the students experienced – and are still experiencing – during the pandemic. For a long time, we were deprived of the right to study and sociality, sacrificed on the altar of "zero risk" (which later proved unattainable) for the fragile categories. It is clear, we must defend vulnerable groups of the population with all the means at our disposal: from preventive measures – masks, social distancing and vaccines – to home care. Because every life has value regardless of age. However, as I said at the beginning, young people also deserve attention.
According to a research conducted in July by the Adolescent Laboratory on about 2,000 students, 77 percent of the interviewees struggle to fall asleep, 56 percent have food problems, 39 percent do not engage in physical activity. Dramatic percentages, largely due to distance learning which, in addition to having caused heavy psychological damage, also worsened the didactic knowledge of the children.
It would be ungenerous and even illogical to place any blame on the elderly. Yet, to understand the reasons for the generational conflict recorded by the Censis report, it is enough to retrace what has happened in the last fourteen months. At the beginning of the emergency, most of the media claimed that we would come out better and above all more united from the pandemic. However, the facts disprove this narrative, conceived with the sole purpose of hiding reality. Our country has never been so fragmented as it is now. Now, to be admitted to society, it is necessary to join the respective factions fighting each other: pro-vax and no-vax , pro Green Pass and no- Green Pass . Or, indeed, young and old. Shades are not allowed. Everything and everyone must identify with the pre-packaged categories of media power.
That of young people was and still is one of the most unfortunate categories. We were first accused of spreading the infection and violating CTS guidelines. Today, however, we are the object of general indifference, abandoned to ourselves not only by the institutions, but also by the standard-bearers of chic youth, who have never spent a word on Dad except to exalt it. In a normal country, the Censis data reported in this article would have generated a debate, occupying the front pages of all newspapers. Why do so many young people think that too much space is given to the elderly in society? A question that everyone should ask themselves about. Especially those who have spread terror for a year and a half by treating young people as irresponsible.
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