“The virus is the enemy and divides us, no more disputed controversy” – Corriere.it

In the spring, during the first wave of the pandemic, we discovered that we know how to be serious and united more than we thought. Today, after a summer in which we unexpectedly dissipated the truce reached, the second wave makes us realize that the virus “tends to divide us”. And that we all run the risk of paying a high price for it. Covid, in fact, now divides us “between age groups more or less exposed to the most serious risks, between social categories more or less affected by the economic consequences, between the same institutions called upon to make necessary decisions, sometimes unpopular, to reduce contagion and guarantee the necessary assistance to those in need. ”It matured from reflections on the turn that the health crisis has taken (and not only that) the alarm made public by Sergio Mattarella in a speech at the annual assembly of the Association of Italian Municipalities.

The epidemic and the risks for the country

This time the president goes beyond asking for a moratorium on the permanent conflict between different forces. His warning is much clearer and even dramatic: note that the epidemic is concretely dividing the country in a cannibal game between generations, between those who are more guaranteed (for example the state) and those who are less so (such as the self-employed). ), between the central State, and therefore the government, and its local powers, from the Regions downwards. A perverse spiral that runs the risk of undermining social stability and twisting the democratic system itself. This prospect is unbearable for the head of state. What it requests, in addition to the abandonment of certain “displaced controversies”, perhaps “in the search for partisan advantages”, an “assumption of responsibility” for all citizens.. The way things are going, he explains, no denier or reductionist should fool himself into thinking that “it can’t happen to me,” because there are too many examples to prove otherwise.