Models compared: in Italy bureaucracy and witch hunts, in the UK free tests and screening in schools
Do you want to make a tampon? Fly to England. The first country to come out of Covid gives swabs as a gift. And it has been like this since the beginning of the emergency. Go to the pharmacy and collect them: no queues, no waiting and above all no money. If, on the other hand, you don't want to go out because it's too cold, you can also order them online and while you sip a nice hot tea in front of the fireplace with one hand, with the other just click on your mobile phone: the next day the postman brings you seven tampons directly. at home, complete with fast delivery and tracking number . Free. If, on the other hand, it is sunny and you want to take a walk, you can go to one of the many walking centers where they give you the kit and the experts guide you in carrying out the test. No cost.
You don't have to have symptoms. You just want to check yourself, either because you have decided to visit an elderly relative, or because testing yourself is the best way to try to stop the infections. Nobody wants to know. In short, the options are many and absolutely all free. A dream when compared to the kilometric queues outside Italian pharmacies and the 100 million euros spent a week to find out if you have Covid-19 or not. We have finally taken away from the British a record: that of lining up like toy soldiers.
The Bel Paese, which believes itself to be the best at managing the pandemic, and which looks outside its borders only when it believes that others are worse off, instead pretends not to see when things are going better across the Channel, and even much better . And surely the Englishman, who never dumped the Green Pass because he didn't need it, who never used outdoor masks, who never had access restrictions in the lifts of shopping centers, never came up with a single penny since the start of the pandemic because swabs were the main screening tool right from the start.
Even in schools. Before each return after the holidays, hubs are set up within the classrooms and all students are thoroughly tested to reopen safely. Without any obligation. Whoever wants to do it, whoever doesn't want to is free to return to class without a tampon. There are no discrimination, hysteria, witch hunts, divisions or hatred between those who collide and those who decide not to. We appeal to the responsibility of everyone, to the civic sense and the word given, in a democratic and liberal state, still seems to count for something. This is not exactly what happens in Italy, where schools open up to end up in Dad.
The Italian model in the management of the pandemic is therefore not the only possible one and certainly not the best given the bureaucracy and the crisis that economic operators are showing. In fact, today in Italy everyone is unhappy: the unvaccinated who can do nothing but go to the pharmacy, the supermarket or buy wood; the vaccinated who, thanks to bureaucracy, is segregated at home; the restaurateurs complaining about empty rooms and taxes to be paid, the shopkeepers with the shutters down.
In Italy, the division of citizens into good and bad has created an irremediable social fracture. And so, if on the one hand death messages are sent to virologists, on the other, fights are created if the mask is not worn correctly in a Autogrill .
The introduction of the Green Pass , a political instrument without any health value, created a false guarantee, that of "being among non-contagious people" (Draghi dixit: press conference of 22 July 2021), which led to an increase in infections among doubly vaccinated and often ended up in intensive care.
But the virus does not take into account the decrees and instead of reconsidering the initial convictions on the Green Pass it is more convenient to point out the unvaccinated and justify the vaccination obligation with the numbers of intensive care units, two thirds occupied by no-vax . Yet, out of a total of 8,619 available places, only 20 percent are occupied by patients "with" Covid . There is therefore still room for other serious pathologies. The chaos in hospitals would seem to be caused more by the increase in positive health workers and by the quarantines required by the bureaucracy than by those who have chosen not to get vaccinated.
The fashionable refrain, "You have to get vaccinated to protect others," begins to lose approval. Whoever gets vaccinated protects only and only himself. With nearly 90 percent of the population vaccinated and 10 percent of the no-vaxes practically segregated at home, who is it that transmits the virus around?
In summary: if the vaccinated, even infected, is protected, why practically only in Italy must we continue to forcibly extort a vaccine from a minority of citizens who, partly out of fear and partly out of conviction, do not really want to do it? To the point of taking away his salary? Even after the US Supreme Court ruling going in the opposite direction?
It would be enough to keep in mind the resolution of the Council of Europe no. 2361/2021 relating to the non-mandatory nature of the vaccine, which reiterated the importance of not discriminating against those who would have freely decided not to have it inoculated.
But there is no limit to the worst. The Covid bureaucracy goes so far as to block even access to the emergency room in Italy if a molecular swab is not shown at the entrance. In the face of the emergency. And the operating room of the Galeazzi Hospital in Milan seems to be off limit for those who are not vaccinated with at least three doses.
The pro-vaxes cheer . Their proposals are many: from closing the school to unvaccinated children up to making no-vax pay for medical treatment. They almost succeeded. Social hatred increases. It could not be otherwise.
All that remains is to regret the first lockdown , everyone locked in the house singing outside the balconies. At least then Italy was a nation united in the tricolor and with a lot of hope for the future. Everything will be all right …
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