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Franco Bechis
From today all over the Italian territory you will have to wear the mask outdoors. In the decree law approved yesterday by the government there is somewhat less rigidity than that established by the ordinances in force in some regions, including Lazio: it can be done without, for example, clearly isolating yourself from anyone other than a close family member. It is a current law, and of course it must also be respected because the fines for infractions will end and will be very high: from 400 to a thousand euros. But respecting the law does not mean having to share it or not being able to discuss it, and I honestly believe that before forcing someone to behave, we must explain the reasons in detail and respond to possible objections.
On the other hand, there has been great confusion about masks from the beginning, applying rules one way here, and another there, and with numerous public conflicts within the scientific community. So much so that some virologists continue to argue that it is not necessary to wear the mask outdoors if the distance between people can be kept to more than one meter. Not only that, but since we have not touched any of the existing protocols for productive activities, we find ourselves today in a grotesque situation whereby in the workplace the protocols provide for the use of the mask only in cases where it does not a personal distance of more than one meter is possible. But those same people who stay indoors without protective gear as soon as they go outside, where the risks of spreading the virus are certainly less, should wear a mask. Nonsense. More or less like the one that can be photographed today in most public transport, where you really have to wear the mask, but the space is very elastic: some seats must remain empty when sitting, but standing one and the other. centimeters on the other, not for health reasons, but for economic needs that forced the government to increase public transport capacity.
There are many contradictions contained in the government elections, and perhaps it would be better to try to dissolve them before unleashing how the singers of the “religion of masks” are going. Because here there are so few apodictic certainties about its real usefulness as to make people think badly: in fact, not all those who raise doubts and criticisms and who perhaps transgress from time to time, but only those who do so by being at the same time sovereignists, populists, garter belts, or in any case of the right. And it doesn’t matter if reality in its sarcastic cruelty offers us a host of virus-positive red-yellow MPs (from grillini to former minister Beatrice Lorenzin) after pointing fingers at selfie masks and making sure that they always have used template and spacing rules. So how did they get sick? There is something wrong that suggests that the mask is used more as a political weapon than as an effective health tool.
For example, these new rules do not distinguish device from device – any mask is fine. Instead, the WHO in its answers to the most common questions argues that “non-medical cloth masks” (those that are almost always used by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, ed) “are used by many people in public areas, but there have been limited evidence on its efficacy and the WHO does not recommend its widespread use among the public for the control of COVID-19. ” Instead, surgical masks are recommended to control the spread of the pandemic, but are called “altruistic”, because they protect others in case the user is positive for the virus, and not themselves because the virus is capable of bypass that fragile barrier and infect the user. To defend yourself – these are the instructions of Oms – instead you would need the much more effective Ffp2 and Ffp3 masks, as long as they do not have the valve with which many are marketed. But these instructions are not provided by the Italian government, so any mask is just as good as the other, which is simply not true. There are instructions for use on the website of the Ministry of Health, a bit unrealistic. For example, it is recommended: “If the mask is touched during use, hand hygiene should be repeated. Never put the mask in your pocket or put it on furniture or shelves. “Tell me how you go down the street to wash your hands if you touch the mask, and for example where to put it if you move in the car where you don’t have to wear it, but you are forced to put it on before and after getting on board. As we are not a sheep town that is dominated by barking, we would like those who govern before forcing citizens to do one thing or another to clarify the contradictions and explain with clarity Is it too much?
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