No-vax teachers in school, what will change
With the beginning of the new school year, the no-vax teachers and fragile workers who have not been renewed the previous health protections will return to school. The intervention of Francesco Provinciali
While you notice virologists who have always inspired the health decisions on Covid by the governments in office are running for elections or making themselves available to the executive to strengthen a preventive trend inspired by science and medicine, a Circular of the Minister of Education on the return to service of no-vax teachers from 1 September.
With 31 August the health protection measures cease and even non-vaccinated teachers will be able to return to school, even if engaged in tasks other than teaching. Although the most recent national average is about 25,000 new cases and 100 deaths per day, with a positivity index between 15 and 20% depending on the region, restrictions are loosened and it is significant that this also happens at school, where the expected measures on the ventilation of the classrooms, the organization of face-to-face teaching, the overcrowding of the classes, the distances and the prophylaxis of cases have not been adopted: schools are a place of coexistence varied by age of pupils and staff but without health control facilities, especially since the figure of the school doctor was jubilated.
In the meantime, despite the amendments and odds presented in Parliament by the Hon. De Toma and Dall'Osso, and by Sen. Cangini, appeals and positions in the press (we too did our part) the protections have not been renewed for fragile workers, which expired on June 30th Not the agile work nor the equation of illnesses with hospitalization, measures always taken and – except for short periods – renewed in the two and a half years of the pandemic.
Not even in the Aid-bis Decree, despite voices of interest on the part of the Labor and Public Service Ministers, nothing has been decided in this regard, within the limits of administrative and health non-compliance in cf. of a category of chemotherapy, immunosuppressed, cardiopathic workers, etc. with pathologies recognized by the Min. Health Decree of 4/2 us and therefore overexposed to the contagion. This total absence of decisions on the matter by the government and parliament has left stunned. Minister Bianchi therefore issues provisions for the return to the classroom, in contact with students and fragile workers, of teachers and ATA no-vax who have always evaded not only vaccines but from any type of control on infections and he does so by deploying the bureaucratic apparatus of his Dicastery to instruct schools of all levels and levels on the merits. Evidently, the decision to establish the disputed figure of the 'teacher-expert' for Minister PI was not enough to leave the memory of a dull and not very incisive presence: this decision to start the school year by bringing back into service those who have always removed from all prophylaxis against Covid and fragile worker colleagues who deserve special protection to avoid the danger of fatal infections, it is evidently shared by the Ministers of Health, Labor and Disabilities, and this is inevitable given the lack of school staff obligation to administer the vaccine. The Government is in charge of dealing with current affairs but a school year set up in this way arouses perplexity and bewilderment. We alternate periods of confidence and relaxation of restrictive measures with new precautionary measures, prevention, control and prophylaxis, especially in conjunction with the arrival of new variants.
In fact, a more difficult autumn is expected than the current period.
And in the background remain the large numbers of the pandemic: in Italy so far 21,630,000 infected, 175,000 deaths, 250 million swabs carried out, while the graphs of these data have not yet embarked on a decisive reversal of the downward trend.
Every political decision on the organization of social life and on individual health protection is therefore decisive, while the saying “prudence is never too much” is validated.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/scuola-insegnanti-no-vax/ on Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:37:15 +0000.