All Conte mistakes that led us to the new confinement (yes, it’s the government’s fault)

Worse than a emergency shutdown there is only a one month masked lock with a high risk of new DPCM and new restrictions. Prime Minister Conte announced this by asking Italians for another effort, but many now wonder what has actually been done to prevent this deja-vu. The return of the call to stay home if necessary is impressive, but the truth is that today the errors of the government and the months of inertia are weighed: while the second wave was brewing, the minister of health Roberto Speranza published a book on the pandemic that had evidently worked in the months it was supposed to prevent it.

All of Conte’s mistakes

We had to live with the virus – they told us – waiting for the vaccine, instead we lived with so many betrayed promises. The outbreak containment system has fallen tragically: the application to track infections, the famous Immune, was downloaded only by just over 9 million Italians. Apart from the reluctance of users, the system with which it was developed cuts down on smartphones that are just over 7 years old. The result is that only 25 thousand users received the exposure notification that allowed tracking just over a thousand users who actually tested positive. As we already had the opportunity to clarify, luckily Immuni is free.

As to tracking One of the most flagrant errors is the failure to provide the local health authorities with the necessary personnel to carry out the contact tracking, or the personnel who should have been in charge of contacting the positives and trying to reconstruct the chain of infections and look for new ones. Just on Saturday, October 24, that is, in the middle of the second wave, civil protection opened the procedures “for the identification of 1,500 physicians and health personnel and 500 administrative personnel to be hired, on a territorial basis, to strengthen investigation and management of case contacts (contact tracing). “

One wonders why it has not been done in recent months and it is to be hoped that the people who will be able to express an interest in enlisting until 7:00 pm today are effectively educated and employed in one of the most important functions for containment. of the pandemic.

The chapter hospitals It deserves a separate discussion: we had already addressed it, but remember that before the pandemic in Italy there were 5,179 beds in intensive care. The relaunch decree has planned an additional 3,553, but at the start of the second wave we find ourselves unprepared with only 6,628 beds available and tragic scenes of patients dying before even finding assistance in emergency rooms packed with newcomers.

While waiting for the rapid tests to become reality, with the assault on drive-ins by the unworthy tampons of a civilized country, we close here the question of health to look at the impossibility of putting into practice the adaptation of public transport. The Relaunch decree attempted to create an alternative to public transportation, guaranteeing a state incentive to the invitation to buy a bicycle, a bonus that many are still waiting for for now. Except for a few painted strips on the ground to make way for bike lanes, there has been a boom in hybrid car sales thanks to the state incentive, but the hope of filling trams and buses 50-80% has resulted in scenes of assault on the stagecoach, in which distancing is not only impossible but tragically unsuccessful.

… which led us to the new blockade

Six lost months and now the attraction of staying at home, of using work models called smart working but that have very little intelligence, closing early the catering businesses that had invested to comply with the Covid regulations, as well as cultural spaces, cinemas. and theaters that to date have not resulted in outbreaks.

As for schools, the rolling benches have not prevented the re-proposing of distance education for secondary schools. As the president of the Gimbe association, Nino Cartabelotta, says, “We suffer the first wave, we favor the second.” Guest of Every Morning on TV8 explained: “in July we managed to break the contagion curve, then we gave the virus a good hand”.

Citizens have understood better than politicians (and some doctors) the dynamics of #SecondOndata # COVID-19 https://t.co/iyerqNx7pn

– Nino Cartabellotta (@Cartabellotta) October 26, 2020

Now that the weekly doubling of cases has begun, the government is pursuing the virus without taking into account the delay in the effects of the measures. It was necessary to act first, proportional to the increased risk but – it is known – without trust and consent the government cannot make unpopular decisions and has entrenched itself behind the praise for handling the first wave without realizing the incoming tsunami.

Conte’s story today is the vaccine in December: we know that the trials will end that month, then for most of the population it will arrive in the spring. The government does not treat citizens like idiots only to resent it when tired people take to the streets.