Italians and Covid, among themselves at closure and 5 million ‘disappeared’ workers

Published on: 04/12/2020 10:24 AM

Yes until the close of Christmas, a desire for a hard line against those who violate the quarantine and do not wear a mask, but also the awareness of the widening gap between rich and poor and the ‘disappearance’ of 5 million illegal workers. This is what Censis photographed in 54th Report on the social situation of the country, in the year of the Covid-19 pandemic.

YES TO HARD LINE – According to the report, 57.8% of Italians are willing to give up personal freedoms in the name of protecting collective health, leaving the government to decide when and how to leave home, what is authorized and what is not, about the people you may meet, about the limitations of personal mobility. 38.5%, continues Censis, “are willing to renounce their civil rights for greater economic well-being, introducing limits on the right to strike, freedom of opinion, to organize, to join unions and associations. The generalized fear from the unknown leads to the ultimate dichotomy: ‘better subjects than dead.’ And it leads to non-sovereign lives, voluntarily subjected to the good Leviathan. ”But that’s not all: 77.1% of Italians also ask for very severe penalties for those who do not wear protective masks for the respiratory tract, do not respect social distancing or collection bans. Thus “hatred of logic ‘or health or hanging’ grows”.

According to the report, “76.9% are firmly convinced that those who made mistakes in the emergency, be they politicians, health managers or other subjects, must pay for the mistakes made, which caused the spread of the infection in hospitals “. and in nursing homes; 56.6% even want prison for those infected who do not strictly respect the rules of quarantine and isolation, and therefore threaten the health of others; 31.2% do not want those who, due to their irresponsible or irregular behavior, have caused their disease, are treated (or want them to be treated only later, in line with others); and 49.3% of young people want the elderly to be treated after their “.

5 MILLION ‘MISSING’ WORKERS – “The universe of the disappeared: that of small jobs, temporary work, illegal work”, is “an undefined universe estimated at about 5 million people who revolved around services and who ended up sinking without noise”, point the relationship again.

WIDES THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR – 90.2% of Italians are also convinced that the emergency and the confinement have harmed the most vulnerable people the most and have increased social inequalities. There are only 40,949 Italians who declare an income that exceeds 300,000 euros per year, with an average of 606,210 euros per capita. They correspond to 0.1% of the total number of registered. Although there are 1,496,000 people with wealth exceeding one million dollars (about 840,000 euros): they are equivalent to 3% of Italian adults, but they own 34% of the country’s wealth. This is what emerges from the report.