Covid, escape from victory | Gramellini coffee

Jacinda Will burn, Prime Minister of New Zealand, solemnly proclaimed that he had defeated the second wave of the virus. In recent months, Ardern has treated his people as if it were a malei.e. a fairly simple being who thinks in terms of on / off like the switches: all without too many limitations, and in the first outbreak, all back. The opposite of the Sweden, who chose the risky way of I send, always keeping the country on, but dosing its movements. Ardern has very good reason to rejoice, even for her, the Blessed Jacinda, prey to the vizio of us contemporaries: the longing for to declare Of something. Each one manifests it differently, who denies the problem how Bolsonaro, who despising him for a long time as Triumph and who declares the enemy defeated and scattered, only to finally move on to something else.

We also journalists we get more excited about the news-firecracker, they make a lot of noise, but they don’t last long. News-home, which never go out, after a while they bore us. Unlike the murders and attacks, the COVID-19 belongs to the category of the fireplace. It comes and goes with its time, which is clearly not that of modernity. He takes it comfortableIt must get used to our body and find its place in the world. As soon as you face it, it shrinks until it almost disappears. But if you ignore it or abandon it, it forces you to put the proclamations of victory back under the mask.