Toti and the elderly: “If we protect them we can keep the country open” – Chronicle



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The Governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti (Ansa)
The Governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti (Ansa)

Genoa, November 2, 2020 – The day after the awkward slip Coronavirus and the elderly (“They are not indispensable”), the governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, speaks again about the situation of those over 75 inCovid emergency and indeed confirms the gist of things, while acknowledging that Sunday’s tweet had been a clumsy exit for which he had already been forced to apologize.

Today Toti on Radio Capital said: “I apologize for the misspelled tweet (referring to a contributor on his staff, n dr), but la substance remains. The form is one thing, if someone misspelled it, I apologize. Another is the substance, because the concept is still everything. “The reference is to the proposal made yesterday by some Regions (including Piedmont and Liguria) of confine at home gli older than 75 years.

Toti (who this morning as representative of the Regions listened to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella) in ‘Ore 14’ in Rai 2 expands the reasoning on grandparents in the time of Covid. “If we could protect the age group over 75, we might as well keep the country open. We would not have all the dramatic problems that we have had, that we will have and that will last over time in terms of unemployment, falling income and all that we are experiencing in a spectacular way in our places. – he comments – Because basically we would not have problems with the hospital response ”. And he comments: “Anyone who makes a controversy should realize that 90% of patients come from that category and I do not think that doing anything is more guilty than making an incorrect tweet.”

Finally Toti mentions the problem of schools: “The closure of the school without the corresponding level of assistance for children staying at home, you will likely make sure that grandparents become me natural babysitters, as they often already are. And this would be disastrous “

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