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Infratel dossier, plus license fee for Rai, dancing Dazn, Pfizer forecasts and the regulatory pandemic

Rai, Dazn, Infratel, Pfizer, Quirinale and more. Bits of press review in the tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Startmag

FORCE DAD?

PFIZER FORECASTS

THE TRANSPARENCY OF INFRATEL-INVITALIA

LONG LIVE THE CYBERSECURITY AGENCY

RAI LEADERS ASK FOR MORE RENTALS

DANCES IN DAZN

VIRAL BIKES

THE SCENARIO OF FOLLI

PNRR DOSSIER

REGULATORY PANDEMIC

EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE BY VITALBA AZZOLINI IN THE DAILY TOMORROW:

The color system was introduced in the autumn of 2020 so that, instead of a generalized lockdown or in any case identical restrictions on the entire national territory, there was a different balance of the limitations of freedom and rights in relation to specific risk situations in the different regions. , based on pre-established parameters and indicators.

The system immediately proved to be not very objective, due to the lack of transparency, the time lag and other defects in the data communicated by the regions to the control room, in charge of the relative evaluations on the basis of algorithms.

The parameters used to determine the color zones have been changed over time and, lastly, a decree law of last July substantiated them in the combination of the weekly incidence of infections per 100 thousand inhabitants and occupancy of beds in intensive care units and areas. medical.

The "ratio" of the color system, as mentioned, was to ensure that the various measures to combat the circulation of the virus were related to the concrete situation of the various regions. Today this inspiring criterion has disappeared, replaced by that of the lower risk of serious illness, and partially of contagion, connected to the vaccination or recovery.

In fact, the restrictions are no longer determined by the color of the region, but by the vaccinated or unvaccinated status of individuals. The replacement of the guiding criterion in the management of the pandemic took place through the gradual imposition of the obligation of a reinforced green pass, first extended to a series of services and activities, and then from 10 January this became a condition for access to any place of sociality. . Moreover, from 15 February for the over 50s, the super green pass will also be required to enter the workplace, given the introduction of the vaccination obligation for this age group.

In other words, except in the red zone, which nobody talks about, today the restrictions no longer depend on the color, but on the possession of the super green pass: the white, yellow and orange zone is now a single zone of the same color, where the vaccinated or recovered can do anything and the unvaccinated almost nothing, in a sort of de facto lockdown.

The rules do not change with the change of color, except in the orange areas, with the obligation of the green pass in the basic version to move from municipalities with more than 5 thousand inhabitants and in the reinforced one to access shopping centers at the weekend.

Therefore, the choice to link the restrictions to the lack of vaccination or recovery has overcome and, consequently, rendered useless the system of color zones. But the rules on regional coloring remained. What is the meaning, the concrete function of these rules, it is not known.

The system of color zones must be eliminated not only because at the moment it is practically useless, as explained, but also because its maintenance determines distorting impacts. As reported in the news for weeks now, since the color change also depends on the percentage of occupancy of the beds, the regions add beds to avoid the passage into an area of ​​more intense color, and that's it.

But it is a "game" allowed by the law itself, indeed by its shortcomings. In fact, the decree that modified the parameters for the change of colors provides that the communication of the places available in intensive care for Covid patients, by the regions, can "be updated on a monthly basis on the basis of additional beds", on condition that the new beds "do not affect those already existing and destined for other activities". In other words, the three-card game should not be played with the beds, increasing them on one side and subtracting them on the other.

The rule poses two kinds of problems. On the one hand, despite the clarification that the additional posts should not be subtracted from other pathologies, there is no effective control so that this does not happen in practice. On the other hand, nothing is said about the beds in ordinary medical areas.

It almost seems that, by establishing a ban on change of destination for intensive care that no one verifies and not establishing the same constraint for other areas, the regions have been left with a way to avoid color changes. And the regions take advantage of it.

Therefore, today the colored areas not only seem useless in practice, but also constitute the excuse to allow the "games" described above. Also for this reason it would be better to eliminate both.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/infratel-rai-dazn-pfizer-pandemia-regolatoria/ on Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:59:24 +0000.