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There is no money to compensate, so Conte downloads the decisions on the Regions with the most infections
Franco Bechis
Here comes the new dpcm of Giuseppe Conte and the only thing that is surely expected is some kind of curfew throughout Italy from 10pm. At that time, any local or public place must be closed: bar, brewery, pub, restaurant, pizzeria, museum, cinema, theater, concert hallthe. You will be able to circulate through our cities without self-certifications, but in fact, especially in this season, it will be difficult to find someone nearby. Then, according to rumors that circulated yesterday at Palazzo Chigi (the dpcm will be signed on the weekend), is provided in close up of leopard spots of gyms, movie theater, theater, hairdressers and barbers, beauticians and beauty centers: click with regional ordinances where infections will be highest. Instead, there is no decision about the school and public transportation.
These are measures that unfortunately signal the loss of the government to the exponential growth of infections these days: it seems that nobody knows what to do. Why? Sadly, the answer is dramatic: there is no more money in hand, and with each passing day the hope of having a breakthrough from the European Union of that specter that has now become the Recovery Fund fades. So the government throws the stone and then hides its hand. If all or all of any productive sector were closed, it is evident that the problem of compensation that the State owes to the unemployed would arise. So formally, the government still does not close anything: it limits the hours of some activities, unloads the decision to close others in the Regions.
It is not a smart or correct decision. It is obvious that limiting the activity of restaurants, bars and clubs to 10 at night causes them to close all or almost completely. Someone will desperately try to keep up by inventing super sunset snacks that will spark new gatherings and inevitably cause restrictive new dpcm’s. Most will not be able to stand up: those who lived with clients from the age of 22 are doomed. Those who bet on two restaurant shifts can only have one: but how will they manage to pay the staff, the rent of the premises, the maintenance costs and even the investments made last spring to transform those premises and make them compatible with the new rules about distances? It is evident that almost all of them fail, with the aggravation of hypocrisy of not having decided to close them by decree.
Someone will object: but the curfew and the closure of the premises have also been decided in other countries and in other European capitals. True, with one difference: before signing those decisions, the governments of other countries evaluated their economic impact, immediately allocating the necessary funds for compensation. On the day of the announcement of the closure, the owners of the premises learned that the state would compensate their losses, allowing them to survive in better times. France, Great Britain and Germany have shown that they have wisely prepared a plan for the decisions to come. Italy does not. What the heck have the prime minister, the ministers and the presidents of the regions done in all these months to prepare for the second phase of the virus that the whole world took for granted? The only plan that is seen these days is “alla viva il parroco”, as it is popularly said. And it offers the dramatic display of a political and executive class that is absolutely inadequate for the emergency we are experiencing.
Yesterday we talked about the confrontation over the closure of schools in Campania and the ballet of the figures launched by those who decided (Governor Vincenzo De Luca) and those who opposed (Minister Lucía Azzolina). Twenty-four hours later, no one said if the figures for one or the other were correct, and it is very serious. Was De Luca right that most of the new infections would come from the school, before closing, what did he do to limit the consequences of such an important ordinance? Have you thought about who would take care of the younger children today? Parents missing work one day? Grandparents, why couldn’t you miss that day? And did you listen and organize schools to do distance education right away? Nothing of this.
It is this general improvisation that leaves you dismayed. Now they want to close barbers and hairdressers. Why? What proof do we have of the growth of infections due to combing? And if there is data of this type (so far I am missing one) and can be made public to explain why the shampoo is contagious in October and it was not between May and September, how much money have you set aside to immediately compensate those that are closed ? ? The same goes for any business that is closed today. Because dear government gentlemen, in the face of the beginning of the pandemic, today you carry on your shoulders the aggravation of having reopened everyone, forcing you to make costly investments to make each exercise compatible with the prescriptions of these crazy scientists of the scientific technical committee that you surrounded: close that before doing it with anyone else.
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