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Bologna, September 9, 2020 – Disposable face masks a school? No thanks. The former commissioner for the health emergency in Emilia Romagna Sergio Venturi does not approve of the decision of government. A choice, in his opinion, very difficult to manage from an environmental point of view.
“Eleven million masks seem heresy to me, 13,200 kilometers a year of cans that are thrown away only for Italian schools,” Venturi calculates. “Let’s hope they come disposed of properly and not find them on the docks and beaches, as I saw this summer ”.
Venturi talks about it presenting this morning to the press “Hummingbird drop“, in bookstores starting tomorrow for Pendragon editions, the book that recounts his experience at the forefront of regional health during the pandemic of Coronavirus. “Schools are not hospitals, in my opinion there was a way to use another type of mask.”
For example, “you could do it like soccer teams”, which have theirs branded masks. the More expensive of cloth, Venturi argues that they would have been equally effective in terms of protection but decidedly less environmental impact, especially in the post-epidemic world.
“The disposable It is the worst message we can do about the world that we will do “, continues the former councilor and commissioner. Who expects, at least in Emilia Romagna, a conscience and perhaps a correction on this:” I am very sure that this region thinks about the school surgical masks ”, throws the hook.
Covid, what awaits us in the fall
In the coming months “we must wait fluctuationsbut I don’t think there is anything like what we saw in that month and a half “, the wave of COVID-19 from last spring. In short, “there will be no tsunami, but waves with a bit of calm between one and the other.”
It is Venturi’s prediction on the evolution of the coronavirus epidemic. Now the situation is profoundly different from that of the closing months, even if the number of cases has increased again. “You can always do better, when we become Korean we will be even better-
Venturi adds, but the Koreans had Sars 1 …
The former councilor and commissioner underlines how the health situation in Italy, the first Western country to face the crisis in the first part of the year, is much better than that of other parts of Europe and the world. And look at the glass as half full also from the point of view of individual attitudes, after having many times recalled respect for distance and the use of the mask during his famous Facebook direct as curator. “I – says the former head of the health emergency in Emilia-Romagna – I have seen a positive behavior, I hope that with the cold season they will be even more so. But we are doing well. “
And in this sense Venturi also promotes local management with great success: in Emilia-Romagna “for the immediate future we are doing very well”.
“206 days without classes, the biggest mistake”
In recent months, in hindsight, I had had critical words about the generalized confinement, with a stop to travel even in the least affected regions. But today Venturi identifies another worse mistake in handling the pandemic. “The biggest mistake we made – he says – was serving young people, children and adolescents.”
Monday, remember, “will be 206 days in which there were no classes. We cannot afford to leave children and young people without those who teach by profession. Two thirds of the year without meeting our classmates and teachers we can no longer pay them. “
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