Errors and delays, President De Luca in trouble

The doubts are many. But since “no half measures needed, no time to waste,” we also assume there was no other way. We establish that everything that had to be done, in recent months, in Campania, to avoid the sudden and painful stop of the constitutional right to education – namely: responsible management of transport, detection of asymptomatic contacts, radical improvement of services Asl – has been done. The closure of schools would appear, at this point, as an inevitable substitute (or omen) for the confinement to which the increase in infections and the concern based on the saturation of beds lead.

However, when seeing how many and convergent criticisms of the government and the majority fall on the order of President De Luca to stop all schools until October 30, one has the feeling of being before the first symptom, if it can be said, of institutional distress displayed by the Palazzo Santa Lucia. Sensation confirmed by the first setback, very partial: therefore, already today, children from 0 to 6 years old, reopen nurseries and kindergartens.

But the data remains. Campania once again shakes its fist, it once again becomes an institutional anomaly: only this time, instead of applause, the showman awakens disorientation in the citizenry, thunderous protests from families and teachers, even in the Region. The hypothesis that the regional council can be reported?

Nonsense. What is the council, if there is no government either? Not surprisingly, Prime Minister Conte uses a euphemism for this measure (“It is not the best signal we are giving”), Minister Azzolina condemns it (“Very serious and wrong, in Campania only 0.75 percent of students they are positive, less), Minister Boccia criticizes it harshly, the Undersecretary of Health, Zampa, dismantles it (“It is outside the classrooms where you have to untie the knots”). And even a technician from the Pd area disagrees , also allergic to polemics, Minister Manfredi (“I told De Luca: it’s time to think together”).

It is as if the military-looking governor’s decision, offered “to healthy families” as a pact of responsibility, became the first, perhaps understandably, admission of impotence. And therefore, beyond any demagoguery, we must return to those first doubts. What was done, not yesterday, but in the months when the Cov-Sars-2 virus was not on your heels? Priority by priority. First scenario, the summer of political cicadas. While all of Italy was caught off guard by the “return” of the coronavirus, especially aboard airplanes and ships, it is fatal for Campania, a land of overcrowded coasts and islands, to add to its vacationers (permanent or returning from abroad). ), the audience of foreigners. As of August 13, the regional ordinance imposes tampons, but in theory and only on Italians. In theory: because the ASLs have not answered requests for weeks, the Cotugno barely absorbs hundreds of people waiting for hours, every day hundreds of users (few or no symptoms, potentially very contagious) leave the queues.

As it happens now, when in front of the Frullone, at 6 in the morning, there are already 400 Neapolitans in line. And those who back down and give up (not always, through their own fault), often infect. Second scenario, the screening of contacts of the “sick”. Until regional polls, Campania is not at the top of those infected in Italy, but it was always last for two worrying indices in Italy: not only for the number of swabs but, as some statistical analyzes have found, for the “screening ” positive. that is, those who were identified as infected by the Health by “contact tracing” and not because they requested a test.

That is to say: only 20 percent, compared to the national average established between 50 and 60. Another sign of a collapse of the preventive health system. Third scenario. Transportation. Zero increase in races and vehicles: on rail or road, some videos recorded, until a few days ago, on buses and trains. Even on the Circumvesuviana, where there are no walls or compartments, entire wagons did not carry a single prohibition sign in places that were to be left unoccupied. Delays, inefficiencies, organizational chaos.

Mistakes. To compensate them, hunting down the culprit is certainly not enough, be it the prefect, or the policeman on the street, “guilty” of not having seen the mask drop. Trivia, for someone. But the doubts persist. Unfortunately reinforced by the extreme silence and neglect in which, even yesterday, today, a positive can fall for weeks in Campania without ever having heard of an ASL. “You don’t need half measures,” of course. But on account, yes. Time not “to lose” but to spend, to resolve doubts and give answers, continues to be one of the daily indexes of democracy and transparency.