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Christmas presents? Better to buy them online than in a physical store, in the heart of a city infested with coronavirus. It matters little if I MerchantsOn their knees for months, they expected a December marked by a slight increase in consumption. Massimo galli, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, and now the familiar face and voice of the newspapers and television, made it clear that no, we should not venture into the ritual of Christmas shopping. Or rather: we should do it virtually so as not to spread Covid.
Galli’s words
The well-known virologist explained to the microphones of the transmission Tomorrow five, broadcast on Channel 5, your recipe for a safe Christmas: “If we want to leave it for Easter, gifts must be purchased exclusively at Internet, dinner should take place in small groups, perhaps by connecting through a video call. We must be patient, protect the elderly and wish each other as much as possible from a distance.“.
Let’s stop at the first sentence, the one about shopping on the web, and think about how many merchants, since March, have been waiting for the holidays to breathe a sigh of relief. Well, for virologists it would be good to buy gifts on some online platform of large multinationals, such as Amazon. And it doesn’t matter if our city retailers could breathe fresh air. Protection of coronavirus it also goes through this sacrifice.
The wrath of the merchants
Galli’s statements are not at all to the liking of traders, hit by an economic emergency that seems to have no end. Gabriel Meghnagi, president of the network of street associations of Confcommercio Milano, was very clear. “The virologist professor Massimo Galli explains well to the merchants of Milan and all over Lombardy with the stores closed again that his idea of Christmas shopping is the one he expressed on television to do them only on the Internet.“Meghnagi said.
In fact, merchants have complied with the rules to combat Covid by adapting their points of sale to the prescriptions required by the health authorities. So why recommend buying online? “Ask the merchants – as he did – that they organize immediately only on the Internet to compensate for the dramatic losses of these repeated the confinement tastes like mockery. It is also in bad taste since we are talking about activities that employ thousands of peopleMeghnagi added.
These businesses, Meghnagi added, defending the category, struggle every day to resist in the market. Not only: “They do not deserve the carelessness of the improvised jokes drawn from the harsh reality of increasingly desertified cities with closed windows“. Finally a advice to Professor Galli for Meghnagi himself: keep doing his job.
