Outbreak of Polignano, Fitto and Meloni on tour in the contagion factory without a mask

The meeting with the workers. The visit to the company. Then the usual photos, embraced “to liberate Puglia from the red army”. All strictly without a mask. In the history of the great outbreak in Puglia, that of the Sop de Polignano a Mare, the large fruit and vegetable exporting company where 78 cases of 159 swabs have already been certified, and where in the next few hours who knows what will happen again, there is a history that is about politics. And a certain way of doing things.

The company was visited on its electoral tour of Apulia by the secretary of Fratelli d’Italia, Giorgia Meloni and the candidate for the Presidency of the Region, Raffaele Fitto. As can be seen from the photographs, no one wore masks and no safety distance was ever respected: hugs, handshakes, despite the claim of the electoral campaign by Fitto who loves to be portrayed while “elbowing” with his candidates . to show everyone that you respect good anti-Covid rules.

The problem is not just folklore. At some point yesterday, in Meloni’s staff but also in the offices of the Region, there was a lot of alarm about what happened with SOP. “All we need is for them to block the election campaign and quarantine us …”, smiled one of the most important leaders of the Brothers of Italy, but not too much.

It will not happen: the visit is on August 25, two weeks have already passed, there is no risk of contagion. But politics remains: poster one, two meters away. And the real one with the hugs, the handshakes and the masks in his pocket.