The good news: once the virus has passed, the virologists will also pass

You think the butt-kick of discovering yourself as a virologist in 2020. You've been doing an ordinary job for years, perhaps treated like a nerd never spun by anyone, you have an anonymous career without infamy and without praise. Then maybe retirement. And go and visit the construction sites. Instead, Covid-19 arrives and your life is transformed. And you become more popular than a pop star; more sought after than a five-star chef; more interviewed than the secretary of the Democratic Party. And you begin to twirl in the infinite sky of contradictions, in the boundless macrocosm of paradoxes, in the unexplored universe of inconsistencies. Everywhere driven by the wind of fame. Under the umbrella of impunity.

To say, you can say – with the pandemic absent – that the virus in Italy will never take root because there is zero risk and we have taken all precautions. Then you can assert – in an incipient pandemic – that the mask is only for surgeons in the operating room. So you can rule – with the pandemic prevailing – that without the lockdown there will be hundreds of thousands of deaths. Finally, you can warn – when the vaccines have arrived – that those who do not get vaccinated have no right to health care, that vaccines must be mandatory, that "antidotes" have no contraindication.

And again: that you would recommend Astrazeneca to women and young people without a doubt, before the death of an eighteen year old from thrombosis. And then that distributing Astrazeneca to young people is madness, immediately afterwards. You can grumble that a vaccine cannot be chosen like a ham, you just have to accept it. And then that Astrazeneca should be stopped for everyone with many apologies to the Italians. And, supposedly, the hams. But then you can add that – since Astrazeneca (also) makes those who will die of Covid (never) die – then they are given the MRNA vaccine so we can see the effect it has.

You can assure yourself that the Astrazeneca vaccine is among the safest in the world and that the risk of thrombosis is higher by taking a plane. And then you can indignantly wonder how it was possible to give Astrazeneca vaccines to those under eighteen. If you want, you could also prudently propose banning aircraft for minors. After imposing Pfizer on him. Finally, having reached the zenith of your monumental presumption, you can also threaten that – if Italians do not get vaccinated en masse – in October you will be forced to shut down everything. Just as if you had the keys to the house of sixty million Italians.

Ultimately, there has never been a category in recent human history more idolized than virologists. And even more exempt from duty, I do not say to tell the truth (that applies only to mere mortals), I do not say that I am "scientific" (that is valid only for those who are not scientists), but to respect the canons of scholastic logic and Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction. If Covid ever finally gives up on us, the sense of liberation will be double. First: for getting rid of the virus. Second: for getting rid of virologists.

Francesco Carraro

www.francescocarraro.com

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