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The director of the Print Massimo Giannini, who fell ill with COVID-19, wrote an editorial today from the intensive care unit, where he has been hospitalized for five days. Tell what the situation is like you see and hear from doctors and nurses, and reflect on the things that have not been done to prepare for the second wave of coronavirus infections, despite months of talking about their urgency and need.
“Today” I celebrate “fourteen consecutive days in bed, together with the ungrateful guest who lives inside me,” says Giannini, explaining his condition: “I spent the last five days in intensive care, connected to oxygen tubes, to sensors, vital parameters, to the oximeter, with an arterial access to the left arm and a venous access to the right ”.
When I entered this ICU five days ago, we were 16 years old, mostly over 60. Today we are 54, mostly 50/55 years old. Apart from me, and ten more fortunate ones, all are in very serious condition: sedated, intubated, pronated. We should see, to understand what all this means. But people do not want to see and often refuse to understand. Then you have the doctors, anesthetists, resuscitators, nurses who tell you about it, who are already starting to work double shifts because they are overloaded with work, dressed as we know in overalls, gloves, masks and glasses. I don’t know how they do it. But they do, with smiles and bitter eyes: «In March they called us heroes, today we no longer queue. They have already forgotten everything… ». Here’s the thing: we forget everything.
Giannini then says that after an editorial written last Sunday about the general lack of preparation for the second wave he had received many phone calls, including those from Health Minister Roberto Speranza and Campania President Vincenzo De Luca, hearing “the typical guilt Italian “of responsibility. After having listed several examples of mechanisms that do not work or are about to stop working, despite the months of time to prepare them, she continues to tell her situation: “I also infected my ninety-year-old mother with cancer, she lives alone, like thousands of elderly people. However, there is no home service to support her or a general practitioner who comes to visit her.
I don’t complain, I don’t cry. I just want a little seriousness. I just want to remind everyone that even the rhetoric of “we can’t close everything” collides with the reality principle, if reality says that contagions explode. If we want to contain the virus, we must give up quotas of freedom. There is no other solution. Do the discos close? Do you have a curfew? Does smart work increase? There will be a bill to pay, of course. The total lockdown in early 2020 cost us $ 47 billion a month and a halving of national turnover, value added and employment. Today we don’t have to and we don’t want to go that far. But something more is essential than what we did with the last Dpcm.
Anyone who suffers more losses should be compensated. The government has resources to find out, if it stops beating around the bush or not at the MONTH. Businesses and unions have interests to share, if they would stop pursuing absurd, low-intensity social conflicts. The pandemic once again shortens the breath of our democracy. Trying to stop them is only up to us. Trade today’s resignation for tomorrow’s ransom.
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