New Year 2021, in Wuhan in the square and the Italians closed at home. But we’re mad at the Garda guys … – Time

The 126 Garda are massacred, but there are those who are more upset about January 1 in Wuhan. Those festive images of the city that symbolize the pandemic also rain down on Italy and make us angry: because we have heard the word gatherings for almost a year and we had to spend the New Year practically in captivity. Then, of course, there were those at the Garda Resort, which are already flagged as the next spreaders of the third wave, indexed on the web, flagged as enemies of the people. They may have made a mistake, but it would be necessary to ask Di Maio’s Chinese friends to explain what is happening on the yellow planet. From there the virus began and now it seems that life in those parts is still calm while we have to suffer everything.

We are among the countries with the most deaths in the world from Covid – they tell us – but in the place where it all began, now we celebrate as if nothing had happened. We feel quite cheated. (Which is the same sentiment that assails us when we read the audience figures for Mattarella’s television speech: 15 million. And what else could Italians imprisoned at home do if they did not see a message on the unified networks?). The hood is getting really heavy. Probably in China the closure was very hard, with us in installments, even skipping the first decisive month, February in which we played, on the left, with the “simple flu”. And looking for Chinese to hug.

Then, measures were alternated that in fact prepared the arrival of the second wave while Minister Roberto Speranza was outraged writing a book that disappeared from circulation. But in Wuhan they celebrate and we celebrate at home. Do you understand then why people are angry?