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To say goodbye in the Covid era, it is better to put your hand on your heart than to rotate your shoulder and offer your elbow. When we all get used to it, the WHO prohibits the greeting from posing as a virus. And that had already taken hold of heads of state, animators, civil protection leaders. In vogue even among doctors and experts from the technical-scientific committee, called to suggest to the government and all Italians how to behave to face the epidemic.
But at the elbow we all greet by mistake. To explain it to us is not just anyone, but the director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who used Twitter to spread the recommendation, releasing a critical message about the new practice of the economist Diana Ortega. “When greeting people, it is better to avoid touching with your elbows because this puts them less than a meter away. I like to put a hand on my heart to greet people these days, ”wrote the WHO director. That indeed in March the photographers immortalized with the raised elbow. For hygiene reasons, and nothing else, of course.
It must be said that the same Organization has always invited people to use elbow flexion when sneezing or coughing. And that the two conflicting things have become clear even to those who should juggle notes rather than prescriptions. A few days ago, the Sassari Conservatory, in fact, issued a decree to explicitly ban “the new unwary habit.” Even if there are those who go further. Like Professor Gaetano Libra, an otolaryngologist with a long career behind him at the Ospedale Maggiore in Bologna. For him “it is wrong to use the elbow also to stop sneezing and coughing, since then we place it almost everywhere contaminating other surfaces.”
A tirade that shows how tiring it is to live in the first year of the Coronavirus. Which is spreading more and more in Europe. So much so that the director of the WHO himself warns: “The average number of cases in Europe is higher than the first peak in March and in October and November we will see more mortality.” “We are not exactly blameless.” And putting a hand on your heart will not be enough to get out of it.
