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During the first confinement, the age to watch was 60. The most unlikely man in his sixties in Italy, Fiorello, had set a good example: I don’t leave the house. Well one of the damn effects of the virus is that meanwhile the age has lowered: 50. The age of danger. The age of seniority. They write it without hesitation in the Bed sheet three experts such as Carlo Favero, Andrea Ichino and Aldo Rustichini, who as a way out of this infinite emergency – and to resolve once and for all the dilemma between health protection and economic protection – make this proposal that by a tick from titles would be defined as shock and that, instead, pure common sense: We separate the young from the elderly to avoid confinement. And for the elderly we mean those over 50 …
As serious scholars, the three signatories base their idea on the most important fact: Out of more than 37,000 Covid deaths, only 409 were under 50 and only 19 were under 30. There are no figures on intensive care, but it is clear that they are at risk of collapse only due to those over 50 infected with the virus. For the youngest, hospitalization is an exception. Those under 29 years old, they point out, are in much more danger on the street: 542 deaths from accidents in 2019.
But how can separation be practicable? The suggestions are very specific.
1) Have distance learning only for senior teachers and send those under 50 and all students to school. Therefore, children with the most difficult access to the Internet at home would not be harmed.
2) Differentiated trips for young and old in public transport to avoid overcrowding.
3) The same goes for stores and supermarkets.: Strictly separate access times.
4) Obviously smart work at full speed for those over 50 who can.
5) The most disruptive and interesting idea: youth vouchers so that they can temporarily move to the many empty hotels and eat in restaurants that currently have no customers.
They are certainly not easy suggestions to implement, say Favero, Ichino and Rustichini overly modest: actually a slice of the incoming rain of funds would be enough. We would have two advantages of this type:
1) Avoid another confinement, much less financially and psychologically bearable.
2) Safeguard the rights of a whole generation that we are looting everything, starting with the future. If you only see each other, you are not at risk if you do not let others take it. Let’s at least save the present.
(This article appeared for the first time in the Corriere Press Review. You can find it here. All the reviews with the best of the articles chosen and commented on by the Digital Editorial Team are here. To subscribe to the newsletter, just go here)
October 30, 2020 (change October 30, 2020 | 09:50)
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