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Franco Bechis
What caused the second wave of coronavirus in Italy? The data from the weekly surveillance bulletins of the Higher Institute of Health leave little doubt: the reopening of Italian schools that certainly did not occur safely.
As we have repeatedly shown in Time It is precisely among the school population, from zero to 19 years old, that between the end of August and the first week of November the contagions exploded. As of August 25, there were 9,544 infected children in that age group. As of November 7, they had become 102,419, with a record growth of 1,073.10%, double that of the 20-29 age group (where all university students were in any case), and five times more than there were happened in other age groups. But the confirmation came from the last bulletin, which reports the data until November 18. On November 6 with a dpcm signed by Giuseppe Conte Secondary schools have been closed throughout Italy, and with the institutions in the various red areas, distance education has also been applied to secondary and third grade schools. Since that time, the ranking of infections has changed radically: the school group that was widely at the top of the ranking has dropped to fifth place: in front of them there were infections between thirty, forty, fifty and sixty years. Until now, infections among children up to the age of 19 had increased tenfold; From the closing onwards, on the other hand, they increased only 45.69%, a percentage twenty times less than before. And without that boom, the contagion curve, which was exponential until the dpcm of November 6, has slowed down and even decreased in recent days. The school was, therefore, the heart of the tragedy that we are experiencing again and that is also aggravated due to the serious responsibilities of the government in another sector: nothing has been done for months to strengthen the hospital network, which today is dramatically out of control in everywhere .
Therefore, the government made only one right: the closure of schools. And since everything else is blatantly wrong, he’s already thinking of backing out. There is very strong pressure on the reopening of schools by the incumbent minister, Lucia azzolina, which he carries on his shoulders with his colleague from Transport, Paola De Micheli, the responsibility of the second wave. And one of the majority shareholders of the government also makes it a flag theme: Italia viva di Matteo Renzi. He was pushing for schools to reopen in May, and there certainly would have been less damage at that time than we have seen. But reopening them now as they did in September is simply insane. Perhaps worse: it is a criminal act, capable of making Italians spend the Christmas holidays in line in front of hospitals (there will be no more space inside), to close any debate about dinners and parties. This is exactly what Giuseppe Conte chose to do, at this time with the resistance of the Democratic Party of Nicola Zingaretti, much more cautious with the choice.
According to the indiscretions arising from the majority assemblies, the school should reopen on December 9, after the Immaculate Conception: a crazy decision also choosing a crazy date for the return to the classroom: it is the general strike of public employment, staff of including school. I know there is no point in appealing to Prime Minister Conte to stop this perverse decision: he only listens to those who have the power to make him stay nailed in his chair, and they are not willing to think about anything else. But after the September experience, helping to put the contagion machine into play at this moment and provoke the massacre of the innocents on Christmas Eve, is chosen by the Nuremberg trial before which to bring the prime minister, his ministers and leaders of the majority that supports them. If you stubbornly want to reopen the school, you have to do it absolutely safely as it was not done in September. And it is not possible to do it before Christmas, because the government so far has done nothing to change the rules and prepare for this security. Instead of putting outrageous and inappropriate tax giveaways into his maneuvers, such as cutting the tax wedge that was largely postponed to better years, billions should have been allocated on two lines, the only ones that allow him to invest in a school in the presence. . Immediately resources to the Regions that together with the municipalities must build an ad hoc transport network intended only for the student population, renting everything in the market to individuals, starting with the tourist buses that are stopped today. The same effort should be asked of the metro and public transport companies to separate the journeys of the school population from those of Italians who go to work each morning. Of course, it will not be possible to maintain the 80% transport capacity rule that had its beautiful responsibilities when igniting the second wave of the virus.
The second funding chapter should target individual schools to double their capacity and divide classes by renting other spaces in theaters, cinemas, barracks, conference centers, parishes, fairs, and possibly even schools that often have large spaces. voids in their buildings. All of this is necessary to reopen the schools, but since nothing has been done since the closure was decided, there is no going back to school now. Roll up your sleeves instead of word of mouth Conte, Azzolina, De Micheli and company, otherwise even in January it will be difficult to bring the children back to class. But now they avoid the useless Christmas massacre.
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