No-vax where? A scapegoat hunt to cover up errors and delays of the state
If 85 per cent of Italians are willing to get vaccinated, but only 55 have succeeded, it is not the fault of the no-vax, who are at most 5 per cent. Unjust to exclude from social life millions of Italians for whom there are still no doses (admitted and not granted that it is right to exclude those who – for various reasons – choose not to get vaccinated) . First step towards the Chinese-style "social credit" system …
They are really doing their best to label as no-vax (a term that is now taking the place of "sovereignist" as the most contemptuous epithet used by the left against the political adversary) the thousands of Italians, perhaps hundreds of thousands, who on Saturday afternoon they filled the squares of dozens of cities across the country. The regime needs to criminalize them, demonize them. Even more impressive demonstrations took place in Paris and London.
Too bad that the squares on Saturday were not against vaccines, but against the obligation of the Green Pass to have access to a multitude of daily activities and public places. Right or wrong, shareable or not, is very different from no-vax , ideologically opposed to the vaccine, to any vaccine.
That of the media, commentators and politicians who insist on labeling as no-vax anyone who dares to demonstrate against the Green Pass and restrictions, for freedom, even accusing him of tracing the infections and causing new closures, is a hateful manipulation. Didn't Gay Pride and pro-Ddl Zan events risk triggering infections?
One may be in favor of the anti- Covid vaccine, even having completed the vaccination cycle, yet be opposed to such an extensive and invasive use of the Green Pass to limit individual freedoms protected by the Constitution. The legal contradiction is enormous, since the direct and constitutional way (article 32) of the vaccination obligation has not been chosen: the fundamental rights of those who have not undergone a medical treatment are limited which, however, is not mandatory and for which there are still no doses for everyone.
Even children aged 12 to 17, for whom vaccines are authorized but the risk-benefit ratio is clearly unbalanced towards the former. And now the furrow is drawn: a few weeks and the Green Pass will be mandatory to take a train, to work and attend schools in person. A tremendous dilemma for many parents with teenage children.
And this "price" is paid by millions of Italians who, as we will see shortly, have nothing to do with no-vax .
There is only one policy that during these months of pandemic has been pursued with rigid consistency and obstinate determination by both the Conte government and the Draghi government, in other very different aspects. A red thread that binds institutional communication, the narration of the mainstream media and televirologists : the hunt for the scapegoat on which to unload the costs of errors and delays of public management before the emergency, then of the vaccination campaign.
First they were runners and those who didn't wear a mask, then the young people of the nightlife , the discos… Now the no-vax .
As our Andrea Venanzoni observed, in fact, at the top of the metaphorical pyramid depicting the moral and material responsibilities of having cracked trust in vaccines, we certainly do not find no-vaxes , but prime ministers, ministers, managers of the Ministry of Health, Aifa, consultants, televirologists, journalists etc … The conflict of interest is therefore evident: all of them, who occupy the top positions of that pyramid of responsibility, are now trying by all means to get us up the no-vax …
But the polls speak for themselves and estimate the so – called "no-vax" , those opposed to the anti- Covid vaccine regardless. How can it be their fault if only 55 percent of Italians have yet completed the vaccination cycle?
According to the latest study, conducted by the State University of Milan and by Swg , they would be 5 percent but in June the willingness of Italians to get vaccinated against Covid would have reached a record level of 85 percent. A level that is amply sufficient to achieve the famous herd immunity and stop the virus' run. Between the 60 per cent who have had at least one dose and the 85 per cent available, there are those who are still waiting for their dose, due to the errors and delays of the vaccination campaign, not the no-vaxes .
On the other hand, the Italians over 12 are 54 million. The doses arrived so far are 68 million. Therefore, 40 million are missing (about 3 months of deliveries) to cover everyone. Why should Italians willing to get vaccinated, but for whom the doses will arrive in the coming weeks, be discriminated (admitted and not granted that it should be those who – for various reasons – choose not to get vaccinated)?
Between 5 percent of those against and 85 percent of those available to the vaccine are uncertain. And among these a not negligible share of Italians who have reason to fear for their health and are in real limbo. Many borderline situations on which even doctors raise their arms: no one takes responsibility for excluding adverse reactions in the presence of certain pathologies and drug therapies, but not even for certifying an incompatibility. Simply because there is no certainty, vaccines are too "young". This is a more common problem than you think. Do we give these people some "mice" too? Instead of reassuring them, following them, down contemptuous words …
But it is very clear: if after seven months we are still far behind with vaccinations, even in the over 60 group, it is not for no-vaxes but for how the vaccination campaign was conceived and implemented in most of the Regions. It is not enough to open to an age group and wait for the click via PC or smartphone. Physiological that someone more dubious and many elderly people remain outside, even if they are not a priori contrary. Active work is needed to contact and take charge of these people, to study case by case. A job that no one has done or imagined to do, so the responsibility is placed on the no-vaxes .
The 'epidemiological' arguments in support of the Green Pass are actually very weak. With the Delta variant, the virus circulates in a very significant way even among vaccinated and their less contagiousness than unvaccinated (most of whom, let us remember, are not yet not by choice) does not seem such as to justify such discrimination punitive (not just trips abroad and major events, but daily activities).
Nor can we think of reaching zero infections and avoiding the onset of variants by vaccinating all Italians, or all Europeans: in a globalized world largely not yet vaccinated, the variants would still come from outside. For this reason, the restrictions imposed by the extensive use of the Green Pass appear at least disproportionate.
And for this reason, the prevailing motivation in the decision to extend the Green Pass to daily activities is a rewarding / punitive policy with respect to an individual choice. From here to the Chinese-style "social credit" system is a step …
The curves to keep an eye on are the English ones, because in the United Kingdom the data are not biased (like the Italian ones) by the low number of swabs or by the low incidence of the Delta variant. With a quantity of complete vaccinations close to the optimal one of a successful campaign (70 percent, none is ever 100 percent), if the virus was not significantly circulating even among vaccinated, but only among unvaccinated, we would see fewer infections and more hospitalizations / deaths. The fact that vaccinated people are also at risk of contagion does not mean that vaccines do not work. It means that it will take time, years, to eradicate the virus, but if the trend in the UK is confirmed, it will mean that vaccines work in maintaining more than manageable levels of hospitalization and deaths, and therefore that we can return to a normal life without apartheid .
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