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We have not been the same for a year. We saw the More expensive only in the television series about hospitals. We had forgotten an old word: pandemic – that some evoked the Middle Ages and most did not evoke anything. We believed that we were indestructible thanks to science. We were convinced that after the great wars, mass death was no longer possible. But a year ago, suddenly, everything changed for everyone. On November 17, 2019, the first case of Coronavirus in the world. I was in China. A 55-year-old man who lives in Hubei province, where he is Wuhan that would become the epicenter of the epidemic – tested positive for a virus and from that moment, even if we didn’t know it yet, our imagination, our daily life, our relationship with our body, social relationships and everything and more would begin to change.
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China is near, they said, playing with rhyme. That November 17, and what followed, would have confirmed this proximity. The world is small: here is the first discovery that this year gave us unimaginable. “We will do better”, was the slogan of the first months of the new life with the virus. And if we thought that we would soon see the light at the end of the tunnel, and already in summer we experience it as the beginning of liberation, then again despair (the current one) but accompanied by a flame (that of the approaching vaccine). And in the meantime we have learned, during these twelve months, that a kind of life verse is possible. Life at a distance – dad’s model, to be clear: that is, as far as schools are concerned, Distance Education – has turned out to be a substitute, or complementary, form of existence, and it will remain even afterwards (¿ but when?) of the end of the infection. We have become digital men and women, more than ever before, in the space between November 17, 2019 and November 17, 2020.
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We have rediscovered the value of our elders: to be more and better protected. And therefore eternal youth, the ideological fiction that biology does not count and that the third age is like the first and the second has failed. Which, despite the tragedy caused by the disease, is a positive acquisition: the young are young, the elderly are old, and everything that our parents and grandparents have given us in recent years, they have often kept their lives. less guaranteed generations of them – now we understand that they must be returned in terms of care and protection of those most exposed to the virus. Not only. Workplaces have changed (the home office with smart work was born), people’s clothes (how long has it been since you had the tie you used to wear every day in meetings, while now you wear it in underwear so that the screen is stop before navel square?), schedules (curfew kicks in at 10 p.m., I have to run home), rites (Easter? has been skipped, and probably will skip Christmas too), the media (take the bus? We’re crazy!), the speeches (you can’t talk about anything else in public and private conversations for more than 5 minutes and then you get back to the topic and the slogan: the COVID-19), wishes: when it’s all over, I do this, I do this, and I do this. But when will it end? Previously it was thought that it would end soon and “everything will be fine.”
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Now the sense of time has also expanded, to infinity: when will it end? Boh! Our relationship with science is no longer the same. When she was away and did her job without being thrown onto a more global stage as was the case with Covid, she was enjoyed in the eyes of all except the anti-science fanatics who consider medicine a scam and have unfortunately always existed in large numbers. – of that respect due to those of another level. Then the virologists became television stars, talk show characters, they got confused with politicians and many times they looked like them and they got off the pedestal they ended up in the spectacular meat grinder and sadly we learned to ask ourselves: this or that? It is true? And that’s a true scientist or talker? What an effort, physical, mental, social, it has been this long year in which we have become unrecognizable to ourselves. Behind the mask, there are different people than those who were there before with their faces uncovered. Neither better nor worse. We are still us but, for example, if we used to say “I wash my hands” today we say “they disinfect my hands.” If before the sofa was the only sport that was practiced, now to feel free we all run much more. And again: Italians with fixed wages and those with a VAT number were less unequal before than they are now.
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In general, although we are all in the same boat, the differences in economic conditions – example: I have a villa in the country and I am going to live there, not everyone who is afraid of contagion cities can say – are more marked. A change for the better concerns the fight against vaccination. It appears to be on a precipitous decline. Honey vaccine must arrive and immediately. Otherwise, all these changes and the responsible and shared way in which we have practiced them out of necessity will be insufficient. One year of Covid was a difficult test, but after Covid our lives will not stop changing. We will know that health is not guaranteed per se. It depends above all on us, and who knows if we will be, not only one year after November 17, 2019, but also after two, three, four, ten, citizens who are more aware and more capable of protecting ourselves and others. . We understand that history is complicated, it does not always advance in a linear way, in fact it can make us go backwards, at the time of epidemics, at any time. We are more fragile, but perhaps also smarter.
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