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This is how the newspapers criminalize the unvaccinated

In an article a few days ago in the Corriere della Sera , the news of a Covid mini-outbreak at the comprehensive “Farini” institute in Bologna was reported. The contagion – explains the newspaper – would probably have started from an unvaccinated teacher regularly in the chair with a valid Green Pass , which, however, would be the result of tampons. The subsequent screening initiated highlighted other cases of Covid positivity, leading to the decision to put the students in isolation. In reality – the article reads – the first people to whom the teacher may have transmitted the virus are precisely two teachers, also regularly equipped with a valid Green Pass , but in this case the result of vaccination. Fortunately, the story of the school in the Savena district of Bologna did not cause particularly serious damage: none of the children or teachers involved suffered any important symptoms.

Reading the article we discover that the two vaccinated teachers (and therefore equipped with Green Pass ) were also positive, and therefore potentially contagious. However, the newspaper (but practically all the newspapers that have talked about the affair) presumed with extreme certainty that the infection started from a "false negative" swab of the unvaccinated teacher.

But who can say for sure that it really went like this? Are we sure that the "blame" can automatically be attributed to the unvaccinated teacher (but equipped with a regular Green Pass ), who among other things has been continuously receiving insults for days without breaking any rules?

How likely is it that she, with a negative swab, infected, compared to even only one of the two teachers vaccinated maybe six or seven months ago, and therefore with significantly reduced coverage from the infection? The fact that chronologically it was the first to test positive does not imply that it was actually the first to become infected. Still, they are all there to point the finger at the unvaccinated teacher.

And these are the information professionals ? This is the usual way the press uses to criminalize those who have views that are lawfully different from "what they think is right" and "correct" . I underline lawfully, because I remember that the teacher in question was in possession of everything necessary to be able to practice his profession: Green Pass downloaded by subjecting to a negative swab valid for 48 hours.

Of the 300 boys placed in dad – all those who have had contact with the three infected teachers – only 10 have mild symptoms, that is, they have a cold.

All normal? Is it right to criminalize a person without knowing who the mini-outbreak started from and who still respected all the existing rules?

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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Atlantico Quotidiano at the URL http://www.atlanticoquotidiano.it/quotidiano/ecco-come-i-giornali-criminalizzano-i-non-vaccinati/ on Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:49:00 +0000.