The Covid Emergency Victims association calls for the closure of schools without expecting any positive case

Close the schools without waiting for any positive case to avoid an increase in infections by Coronavirus.
This is what the Italian association Covid Emergency Victims asks for with a letter sent to both Abruzzo region than to the regional office of the school.

The association, recalling that the new positives on the first day of October were 2,548, compared to 1,851 the day before and that from September 1 to October 1 the new cases have almost tripled, considers it very likely that this acceleration of the spread of the virus is also due to the reopening of schools: “Since the beginning of the lessons, at least one infection has been registered in more than 900 schools.”

“One wonders why it is absurd to wait for the confirmation of the positive case and then proceed to the closure of the school complex, if it is almost scientifically certain that the contagion will exist”, reads a note from the association, “this absurd principle, clearly unsafe, violates the precautionary principle mentioned in article 174, paragraph 2, of the Treaty establishing the European Union. It is expected that immediate measures will be taken, activating the precautionary measures that will be adopted in application of the precautionary principle. This principle makes it possible to react quickly to a possible danger to human health, legitimizing the imposition of precautionary measures even at a time prior to the one in which, in a preventive logic, interventions aimed at defense must be arranged. the dangerous. In fact, in the event that scientific data do not allow a complete risk assessment, as in the present case, the precautionary principle can be invoked to guarantee a high level of protection of human health thanks to preventive positions in case of risk. By constant doctrine and jurisprudence, recourse to the principle is part of the general framework of risk analysis (which includes, in addition to risk assessment, also risk management and communication) and more particularly in the context of risk management, which corresponds to the decision-making phase. Recourse to the precautionary principle is only justified when it combines three conditions, namely: the identification of potential risks, a scientific evaluation, carried out rigorously and completely on the basis of all existing data, and the lack of scientific certainty that makes it possible to reasonably exclude the presence of the identified risks. The so-called “precautionary principle” requires that when there are uncertainties or a reasonable doubt about the existence or extent of risks to human health, protective measures can be taken without having to wait for the real existence to be fully demonstrated and the severity of these risks; The implementation of the precautionary principle implies, therefore, that, as long as the risks induced by a potentially dangerous activity are not known with certainty, the action of public authorities should result in early prevention with respect to the consolidation of scientific knowledge. The closure of classroom activities in schools and universities can slow down the race of Covid-19 and no time should be wasted, taking into account that the precautionary principle can also be adopted in a concrete way by continuing the lessons with the use of distance education. Although we are aware that these methods will lead to sacrifices, it is appropriate, in this historical moment, to put the principle of health first. A single case of contagion in a school setting triggers a terrible domino effect in which the tears shed afterwards will be of little use! ”