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A few months ago the public debate was occupied by the controversies between virologists, epidemiologists and clinicians about the existence or not of the danger “Second wave“For our country: pages of interviews, analysis and comments aimed at determining a climate of total disorientation among public opinion and directly or indirectly influence the choices of political decision makers. A debate swept away by the self-evidence of the data (except some Japanese in the jungle who insist on minimizing the resurgence of the pandemic), but who have left evident traces in the handling of this very delicate phase of the crisis. Confusion, contradictions and uncertainty have in fact accompanied not only the action of the government and the dialogue between the central and territorial authorities (with consequences that are still not entirely clear), but also the behavior of citizens and their predisposition to accept the not always linear indications of the authorities.
The schedule of government measures, a progressive tightening of sanctions without even waiting the time necessary for the effects of the individual measures to manifest, is extremely indicative of the degree of confusion and uncertainty that characterized the management of the second wave, which began very late. and after having annulled the “advantage” that our country seemed to enjoy over France, Spain and the United Kingdom in terms of monitoring new infections and the need for interventions to restrict mobility and opportunities for infection. A tortuous journey during which Conte and Speranza could not count on the support of the scientific community (divided and quarrelsome) or especially of the Regions, with some Presidents who provided an unworthy spectacle, made up of personalities, spite and small personal gains. Messages arrived from Chigi that were not always clear and unequivocal (net of the complexity of the moment), the Minister of Health took refuge behind a mysterious algorithm that would have determined automatisms and sanctions (after having made his book disappear in which he praised the Italian model of response to the pandemic), representatives of ISS and CTS have collected contradictory interventions and optimistic forecasts, some governors have come to deny reality and others to hypothesize dystopian scenarios in which the weakest can be left behind in order to guarantee the efficiency of the production system. Even today, with more than 500 deaths and 40 thousand infections a day, we venture into minimizations and reassurances, treating Italians as appetizing children to whom we can say everything and the opposite of everything two days later. A hoax, in short.
Italy, which is heading inexorably towards a new blockade (probably in a brief, revised and corrected form compared to March, similar to what is being experienced in other areas of Europe) a country divided and scared, where it will be very difficult to find that community spirit that helped us overcome the first wave.
The burning house metaphor is often used to indicate the situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. First we put out the flames, they tell us, then we understand whose fault it was and only after arguing about the fact that the alarm could have been given earlier. The metaphor could be effective too, but some minor changes would be needed.
The problem is that for weeks we have not listened to the neighbors who warned us that their houses were already on fire and the fire would inexorably spread to us as well. Then, at the first sparks, we pretended nothing was expecting it to rain, while some of the occupants of the house clamored for us to mind our own business and think positive. When the house was really starting to burn we waited before we even called the fire department, when we did, the plant sent one tanker truck at a time as the fire spread. Now that so many rooms are burning, we are trying to use more means and more men, but without really securing all the rooms in the house, places where we even continue to let people stay almost as if nothing happened. All this after realizing that we have not hired enough firefighters, that we have not spent everything we could on useful means and technologies to stop the flames, that we have not done everything possible to insure people intoxicated by smoke or licked objects. . from the flames.
And again we are forced to wait for the rain, the vaccine, to arrive as soon as possible. But this also means accepting hundreds of thousands of cases, thousands of deaths, the commitment to the stability of the entire health system. An enormous and excessive cost, which should lead us to a greater assumption of responsibility to be translated into an imperative: no more half measures and confusion, no more compromises and mystifications, no more divisions and speculations. It is the moment of seriousness.
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