The therapeutic state (by P. Becchi and G. Palma on Libero)
Article by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma in Libero of 7 October 2020:
Everyone talks about the new Dpcm but no one has seen it. For the moment there is still nothing official and uncertainty reigns. Perhaps it will be adopted today, perhaps next week, the fact is that so much confusion jeopardizes the first of the founding elements of the rule of law: " legal certainty ".
For days, the closure of bars and restaurants at 11pm was aired, then the government took a step back, while the extent of the mandatory masks even outdoors should be confirmed, this time even if social distancing is respected. No gatherings and more diligence in hand sanitizing. In addition to the police, perhaps the army will also be employed on the streets to monitor compliance with the new rules. But isn't that crazy? All without a law, with a simple administrative act of the Prime Minister, as during Phase 1. Of course, Conte has guaranteed a parliamentary passage for the second extension of the state of emergency from 15 October to 31 January 2021, but yesterday the quorum in the House was missing twice and we will talk about it again this morning: a new armored parliamentary resolution that will give Conte has the opportunity to do what he wants. It was not enough to extend the state of emergency in the absence of an emergency, now we will also see the permanent state of emergency and this only to keep a zombie government alive.
The ordinance power of the emergency state instead of the rule of law, as in war. Formally, the government does not have full powers, but in fact it exercises them undisturbed, with a parliamentary majority ready to vote whatever Conte asks, so as not to have to pack. "There is an emergency, infections are increasing, a squeeze is needed". This is the mantra of the yellow-reds well supported by the whole mainstream. But is there really this emergency?
In the last few days, the infections touched the three thousand cases a day, but most are asymptomatic, that is, infected who do not require hospitalization. There are fewer than thirty deaths a day (hundreds of them die from other diseases) and fewer than four hundred hospitalized in intensive care . Perhaps few remember that the lockdown in March and April was born from the need to prevent intensive care from going haywire, with serious repercussions on the health system, but at the end of March we had four thousand hospitalized out of five thousand beds available. Today we have a few hundred in the presence of about twelve thousand seats, and another three thousand are about to be built. Where is the health emergency that justifies further restrictive measures of personal freedoms such as the use of the mask outdoors even in the presence of distance?
In full Phase 1, that is at the beginning of April, the head of civil protection Angelo Borrelli , an authority on emergency management, clearly stated that “I don't use a mask, but I respect the rules of social distancing; the mask is important, if the distances are not respected ”. Of the same opinion also several doctors – including Bassetti, Tarro and Zangrillo – who have always stated that the mask outdoors, if distance is guaranteed, is not necessary. This happened when there were about a thousand deaths a day, why now – that the dead are less than thirty and the national health service is much more solid – we should wear a mask even if we walk alone in the city? And perhaps even with the army that controls us. The government can use the army on the streets with an administrative act and for limited periods of time, but only to guarantee public order in the event of a concrete and overt emergency, for example in the case of terrorist attacks. The army, instead of defending the Italians, will have to force the Italians to respect certain idiotic rules such as that of the outdoor mask that does not exist in any other country in the world. Really amazing how the democratic state has been brought to its knees by those who squawked about Salvini's "full powers". Via the security decrees for the human rights of illegal immigrants, but the army in the streets in violation of the human rights of Italians.
We don't want to think badly, but does the government want to facilitate some multinationals that have converted production into masks , in order to facilitate their sale? The issue is even more thorny. If the government, from May to September, instead of giving China tons of money for scooters and wheelchair benches, had built fifty thousand beds in intensive care, today we would not be discussing the Dpcm again.
Finally, it is disheartening to note that we have not learned anything from what has happened, above all we have not understood that the measures to be taken must be identified on the basis of local needs and situations. We continue with Dpcm at the national level and as in the game of the goose we have only returned to the starting point. The democratic state, which is that of law, is transforming itself into a "therapeutic state".
by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma in Libero of 7 October 2020 .
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