There is no no-vax threat to the vaccination campaign: a straw man to criminalize criticism
Yesterday passed quietly. Not even the shadow of the feared assaults on railway stations that alarmed the Interior Ministry and ignited hysteria in the main newsrooms ( “Follia no-vax, manhunt” , entitled Libero ). In front of the stations there were more policemen, journalists and onlookers than “no-vax” , the new deplorables . Fortunately, common sense seems to have prevailed among the opponents of the Green Pass , who have given up on implementing forms of protest that are not only illegal, but counterproductive for their own cause. As Fabio Dragoni observed, alienating the majority of Italians, calling them 'pecoroni' and preventing them from going to work, triggering the legitimate action of the police, would not have been an intelligent move, but a perfectly functional move to that 'regime. health care 'which they intend to oppose.
Now that the dreaded " no-vax army" seems to have evaporated into thin air , the mainstream media are celebrating the "flop": in 24 hours from terrorists to four cats … But is it a real flop, or was it the expectations that were too high? The suspicion remains that the "no-vax" threat is an artfully emphasized threat to criminalize who is against not the vaccine, but the Green Pass , and dares to ask uncomfortable questions to the government and to those who support it: what has been done in the last 18 months, and what do you intend to do about urban transport, home therapies and salivary swabs?
A 5-star gazebo torn up (probably by former voters disappointed by the turn taken by the Movement) was enough after dozens and dozens of demonstrations held peacefully in all the most important Italian cities, the threats via chat of some runaways were enough – certainly episodes from condemn – to speak of a "hate campaign" of no-vaxes and no-passes and activate security measures worthy of a terrorist threat.
It is not our exaggeration. "We are working to identify, through investigations on Telegram channels, the perpetrators to be referred to the judicial authorities for various crimes, including that of instigation to commit a crime with the aggravating circumstance of the use of IT means for terrorist purposes", he said to know yesterday the director of the Postal Police, Nunzia Ciardi, adding that "the same Prosecutor of Turin has hinged a dossier where this crime is hypothesized".
We do not remember the same 'activism' for threats via social media or in the streets that have come to other ministers in recent years, but obviously there is a minister and a minister …
Just as, at least in our memory, never had a preventive dissuasive intervention arrived from the Interior Ministry to announce – rightly – "zero tolerance" against "illegality on the occasion of protest initiatives near railway stations". We stand for zero tolerance of any form of illegality – illegal occupation and illegal immigration included – and we remember well how illegal actions, including road and rail blocks, but also devastation and looting, are the norm, not the exception during political and trade union protests in our country. And the Interior Ministry usually closes not one but both eyes. But even here, there is manifestation and manifestation …
We have become accustomed in this year and a half of pandemic to the systematic reversal of reality. If an uprooted gazebo and isolated threats, after dozens of peaceful demonstrations, are enough to talk about a "hate campaign", then one cannot but define a "hate campaign" also that carried out for months by government forces and the mainstream media. against anyone who allows themselves to raise legitimate doubts about the abnormal extension of the Green Pass obligation, or even about the effectiveness of vaccines.
The disproportion of the means in the field is undeniable. A disproportionate political, media and social pressure on the uncertain and against the vaccine, or only the Green Pass , lasting weeks, with daily incendiary declarations that risk exasperating those who see their freedoms strongly compressed, the right to follow a lesson in the presence and maybe soon to work too.
Every day, for weeks, in print, via social media or from talk show salons, politicians, virologists, journalists, even health workers have been shooting at chained balls accusations and threats against those who do not want to get vaccinated or those who simply do not consider the limitations imposed through them to be justified. the Green Pass requirement . Journalists who would like to see them dead or reduced to "green mush"; virologists who would like to see them "locked in the house like mice" or "prosecuted as mafia"; health councilors who would like to make him pay for treatment; former parliamentarians who invoke Bava Beccaris (the general known for having ordered the shooting of the crowd to suppress the Milan riots of 1898); the prime minister who speaks of "calls not to be vaccinated as invitations to die", banned lists in which he puts himself into everything, extremist and parliamentary movements that express reasonable doubts and criticisms. And the list could go on and on.
An unprecedented verbal violence. The fact that it is not directed against a single individual but against an entire category of citizens does not make it any less serious and less hateful.
And these are the same pulpits from which, when it suits, thunders against the elusive "hate speech" on the net.
How much hypocrisy does it take to denounce the no-vax's hate campaign and refuse to see the pro-vax's ?
The reality is that the no-vax fringe is such a residual and impalpable fringe that it represents the perfect straw man to evade any argument against the Green Pass – and there are very valid ones – not having to answer those who express legitimate doubts, and at the same time a scapegoat always ready to use for any flaw in anti- Covid policies.
Attributing the no-vax label even to those who are against the Green Pass , or rather brandishing it as a rhetorical truncheon against anything that moves outside the official line – however wavering, contradictory – is the most obscene intellectual deception we are witnessing. .
Yet, the polls speak for themselves: the "ideological" no-vaxes are at most 5 percent and are in decline. Not only the polls, the real numbers of the vaccination campaign also confirm this. Almost 80 percent of people over 12 years old (and an even higher percentage if minors are excluded) have already been vaccinated with at least one dose. Many others are booked and many will not be able to get vaccinated just for health reasons.
We are among the countries with the highest percentage of the vaccinated population. Not of the European Union, but of the world. We have also recently overtaken Israel and the United Kingdom as first doses. Shouldn't this be the news? Figures in hand, in Italy there is no " no-vax threat". No-vaxes are a negligible variable for the success or failure of the campaign and the effectiveness of vaccination coverage. There is no problem of refusal of vaccines by the population induced by the "conspiracy" of no-vax . If anything, a problem of mistrust and uncertainty mainly due to the communication chaos of the institutions and the mainstream press.
Instead of celebrating an unexpected success from the start, and committing to convincing the uncertain with the strength of numbers, the government and the media that support it seem to be engaged in a real witch hunt, a method that unfortunately has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic and that the Draghi government inherited from the Conte government. Obviously, a scapegoat is needed: today the no-vax , yesterday the runner , the young people, the nightlife, etc. A perpetual blame for the citizens, both of the burdens of the emergency and of the fault of the infections and the consequent closures.
An infamous climate, aggravated by the introduction of the Green Pass and the terrorist campaign against the unvaccinated, branded as greasers and dehumanized, indicated to the vaccinated as the uncivilized because of whom we are unable to get rid of Covid . A lie, which is pushing citizens against each other, tearing apart families and breaking friendships, destroying a community.
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