Those who rebel against the new Dpcm

Protests against new Dpcm signed by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte multiply: from Turin to Rome, from Pescara to Syracuse, thousands of citizens have gathered in the square to challenge the closures imposed by the decree of October 24. “You shut us up, you pay us”, is the motto that is widely repeated in the main Italian cities. The initiatives, mostly peaceful, are announced and promoted on social media and are often carried out without police authorization and in violation of the current curfew in the territories.

Who rebels against the new Dpcm

the protests against the new Dpcm On October 24, which closes public establishments at 6 in the afternoon, they are led mainly by the merchant associations that will suffer the most damage from the new squeeze and by which the government soft drinks advertised in a decree that is expected to be approved this week. “We officially ask you to provide us with the studies and scientific evidence produced by the Scientific Technical Committee that show that restaurants, bars, pubs, pizzerias and all places of administration are the cause of the increase in infections”, write Mio Italia, Movimento Imprese Hospitality, an association of companies operating in the Ho.Re.Ca., Hospitality and Tourism sector, in a letter that reached the table of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Yesterday afternoon a delegation was received by the Prime Minister.

(Demonstration of merchants in Vomero. Video Alessandra De Cristofaro-NapoliToday)

The bartender willing to do anything: “I don’t close, they can even arrest me”

And there are such as Edoardo Milliaccio from Dodo Caffé to venice He is not afraid and says that he is willing to do anything: “They can also arrest me, no problem.” The bartender communicated his willingness to remain open to his customers with a sign hanging outside the door of his restaurant. “I have always respected the ordinances and decrees, respected distances and masks. I do not close,” he says.

The Ferrara gym protest

“I want to continue respecting the rules but they cannot shut us down and if they don’t listen to me I beg the mayor not to send me to any authority to shut me down, because I will bring them back by hook or by crook,” he says instead. Maria Antonietta Pellanda, owner of a gym for bodybuilding in the Ferrara area that has publicly announced its intention to disobey the new measures imposed by the Dpcm that has introduced new restrictions to curb the coronavirus infection including the total closure of gyms, swimming pools and sports centers.

The restaurant owner’s desperation for the new Dpcm in a photo: “This is the final blow”

But it’s not just them. The extreme left has taken to the streets in Naples and social centers are being organized in the big cities, but the mini blockade does not even like it Carlo Bonomi, the president of Confindustria, who yesterday was the guest of Lucia Annunziata in Rai3 attacked: “It is difficult for me to understand the direction. A week ago the gyms were open, now we are closing them. The truth is that we let ourselves be caught off guard. C” It is a social unrest and we cannot ignore it. “

The new Dpcm and the alarm for GDP

Bonomi then raised the alarm: the Italian GDP, “if the restrictive measures continue”, could mark “-11 / -12%, with damage to the economy of 216 billion, higher than the funds of the Recovery Fund.” The president of Confindustria drew attention in regards to snacks, because “we still have 12 thousand people waiting for the Cig that the state has delivered to them since May, these are things that Italians lose confidence in.”

Walter Ricciardi also rejects the new Dpcm

But not only entrepreneurs, merchants, exhibitors, culture and entertainment operators believe that the new measures are incorrect or insufficient. too Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, believes that the new Dpcm is not enough to contain the infection. “The virus is widespread in some areas of the country. Local closures are needed, the measures taken are not enough“, he told Omnibus on La7.” The set of measures are a step forward – he explained – but they are not enough to deal with the circulation of the virus at this time. Measures must be taken in a way that is proportional to the circulation of the virus and in some areas of our country at this time the virus is rampant and uncontrolled “, continued Ricciardi.” In some areas the infection rate is 2.5, which is which means that the transmission of the virus is exponential and more aggressive measures are needed. I’m not saying it, says a study published by colleagues from the University of Edinburgh in ‘Lancet’ after analyzing the experiences of 131 countries in these 7 months “, he concluded.

Bassetti: “I doubt that with these measures we will reduce infections”

“I don’t know where this Dpcm will lead. Frankly, I have great doubts that thanks to these measures we will reduce infections.” The infectious disease specialist Matteo bassetti He takes part in “Mattino Cinque” and comments on the content of the new Dpcm. “I believe that the circulation of the virus will continue inexorably”, reveals the expert from San Martino di Genova. “I seem to see that the ideas are very confusing – infectious disease reports – we cannot keep jumping from one measure to another.” “What we regret is that the Dpcm does not mention the elderly and frail,” Bassetti argues. We should have thought about ensuring this category through, for example, social services ”, concludes the expert.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte “said last week that a blockade would be disastrous.” Well, “these measures actually create a blockade, in addition to measures that seem absurd to me” and “I don’t think they have a significant impact on the number of infections.” With these words Maria Rita Gismondo, a microbiologist at the Sacco hospital in Milan, rejects the new Dpcm for the containment of the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy.

The new Dpcm with anti-Covid-19 measures does not even convince Pierpaolo Sileri, Vice Minister of Health. “I have always thought that where there is a protocol and where the protocol is strictly and severely respected, the risk of contagion is certainly very low. In these measures I did not completely agree, I do not, to tell the truth, completely agree “: he said on the Rai Tre Agorà program.

“Not in my name”, he writes Antonella Viola, Senior Lecturer in General Pathology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Padua and Scientific Director of the Pediatric Research Institute. The doctor attacks the new Dpcm on Facebook: “The decision to impose the closure of bars and restaurants (because except for some cases this means total closure, we are not mistaken), gyms, theaters and cinemas means condemning entire families to despair. and an entire country in unsustainable social tension. It is an irrational, blind, absurd decision. I don’t know if these measures will have an impact on the spread of infections and, honestly, I don’t think so, because people are going to find each other anyway but in uncontrolled places (but I hope I’m wrong). “

Beppe Sala and Luca Zaia against the new measures

“I believe that Venetians are not irresponsible, since February we have suffered a strong confinement and we have respected it. I think of the restaurateurs, gyms, other businesses that are affected today and that have made great investments to protect the health of workers and their customers. Go and tell these categories that closing their businesses should change the contagion curve, we’ll see if that’s really the case … ”. With these words amid bitterness and controversy, the president of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia commented in a television interview the latest measures contained in the Dpcm in force as of Monday, October 26.

“Yesterday the Head of State called for a spirit of” loyal and effective collaboration between the institutions of the Republic. ” And I’ll do it. But I can’t say that I agree with the Dpcm rules on entertainment. ” Concise but incisive, the mayor of Milan Beppe Sala take one clearly contrary position to the suspension of all shows in cinemas, theaters, concerts and outdoors, foreseen by the Dpcm signed on Sunday by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Italians will spend a month without cinema, without theater, without concerts. And this despite the fact that a report from the Agis (Italian General Entertainment Association), released on October 12, certifies that there was only one case of coronavirus positivity among viewers after the reopening (therefore, from 15 June to early October), following 2,782 shows for a total of 347,262 viewers.