What is REALLY happening in Italy we have to read about it in the English newspapers. Who make fun of us.
The Spectator is a glorious English newspaper, founded in 1826 and which still sells 100,000 copies today, linked to the same electoral group as the Telegraph. So it is not a headline of crazy extremists, but a pillar of traditional British communication.
On February 20, he dedicated these words to Italy, under the title " The useless tyranny of Italy's Covid Pass " that we want to offer you:
Perhaps it is because Italy is a country where fortune tellers and healers are a multibillion dollar industry that this country has the most draconian vaccine passport regime in Europe. Either way, mass psychosis distracts its politicians and people from the truth.
In the UK, the false claims by government science advisors about the need and benefits of lockdowns were eventually convincingly scrapped, and The Spectator played a significant role in the process. The time has come for similar false claims about vaccine passports to be debunked as well.
There can be no better place than Italy to initiate this process of unmasking.
The justification for the Italian vaccine passport regime – called "The Green Pass" – when it was introduced last August was that it would increase the spread of the vaccine, create safe spaces for the vaccinated and thus reduce Covid cases, hospitalizations. and deaths. He didn't do any of these things.
Instead the regime has steadily become more draconian. The unvaccinated were soon banned from almost all public spaces and public transport, and even from work, unless they had had Covid in the past six months, or paid for a € 15 Covid test every 48 hours.
Hailed as a huge success with religious fervor by the Italian national unity government, led by the unelected premier and former EU central banker, Mario Draghi, “The Green Pass” was actually nothing more than an exercise in pointless tyranny.
Yet despite this, in December, the Draghi government introduced 'The Super Green Pass' which made the regime even more tyrannical with vaccination now mandatory to get on all public transport, and in many public spaces such as restaurants and bars – outside too – and hairdressers, beauty salons and sports stadiums, unless they've had Covid in the past six months. The right of non-vaccinated people to take the test every 48 hours from € 15 to access it has been canceled.
And this week, with the contagion rate in free fall, mandatory vaccination was extended to workplaces for the over 50s. Vaccination was already mandatory in the workplace for health and emergency workers and teachers. But from now on, no unvaccinated person over the age of 50 who hasn't had Covid in the past six months will be able to go to work. If they do, they and their employer face fines of € 600 to € 1,500. Previously, they could still go to work if they took the € 15 Covid test every two days or if they had had Covid in the last six months. There are 500,000 unvaccinated Italians over the age of 50 working and will now be suspended without pay – according to the Italian press – unless they throw in the towel and get vaccinated.
Of course, neither the unelected Draghi nor anyone else in his cross-party coalition will ever admit that what they trumpet as their proudest achievement is a failure. Neither will the Italian media that have followed the government's line so supinely – nor the Italians themselves – three quarters of which support "The Green Pass" in the polls. They all have too much face to lose now.
That their obsessive belief in the wonders of "The Green Pass" is complete nonsense is clear from a comparison of the data for Italy and Britain that did not actually have any form of vaccine passport.
Italy and Great Britain have similar populations, with 59 million and 69 million people respectively.
Today, after almost seven months of the vaccine passport regime in Italy, the number of unvaccinated people in Italy and Great Britain remains more or less the same. In Italy, 88.92% of over 12s are fully vaccinated, compared to 84.9% in Great Britain.
In January, there were still 5.9 million unvaccinated Italians over the age of 12, again a similar number to that of Great Britain.
The lesson is clear: as Britain shows, the vast majority of people have chosen to get vaccinated of their own free will and do not need to be forced to do so by the state. In fact, forcing people to do it – as Italy shows – doesn't work.
What matters most, of course, is the death toll. But even here 'The Green Pass' and 'The Super Green Pass' had little effect. Indeed, by creating a sense of false trust among the vaccinated, they may have made matters worse. Either way, they failed.
Had they worked, Italy's infection rates would have been far lower than Britain's. Yet since the start of the last big sombrero wave in December caused by the Omicron variant, Italy has had a remarkably similar number of Covid infections to Britain without a green pass.
The explanation, of course, is that regardless of all those green passes, vaccinated Italians infect each other.
Since 1 December – when the Delta variant was on the way and the Omicron variant on the way – there have been about 7 million cases of Covid both in Italy and in Great Britain.
In Italy, 70 percent of Covid infections in the last month have been in partially or fully vaccinated people. True, proportionally, few vaccinated people who catch Covid end up in hospital, or die, but those who do are still many people. About half of Covid hospitalizations in Italy and more than half of Covid deaths since December have been partially or totally vaccinated people.
To add insult to injury, Italy has had far more deaths from Covid than Britain since December 1.
In Italy, since December 1, there have been 18,000 deaths from Covid, compared to 15,000 deaths from Covid in Great Britain. This is a huge difference.
Yet politicians, journalists and most of the Italians themselves continue to believe that "The Green Pass", now transformed into "The Super Green Pass", is the only solution.
Italy has not had an elected Prime Minister since 2011, elected in the sense that the Prime Minister was the leader of a coalition or party that won the general election.
We may not appreciate certain mocking tones, but we would like someone to contest these data, to say "No, that's not true, we're right". Only this, I know, is not possible.
So let's ask ourselves: why didn't an Italian newspaper write this article?
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