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Pietro Senaldi
After Covid everything will be different. The pandemic will change us for the better. Crises are an opportunity for growth. These are the lullabies that comforted us when the first wave arrived, at the end of February, and the government took care to make us sing like fools from the balconies. Almost ten months later, in the much anticipated and expected arrival of the second semester, we discover that everything remains the same, we have learned little from mistakes and the crisis has been an opportunity to close stores and businesses. When the government ban drops, it will also become a shooting ban. Those who proved to be up to the task in the spring are proving capable.
This is the case of the president of Veneto, Luca zaia. That, as the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca, fate had saved it and it was the phenomenon, today it staggers and closes schools, a fairly safe environment, so that children have more time to get infected on the street. If you want to understand something about how to deal with the autumnal resurgence of the pandemic, then it is better to question the first than the second. Even if, unlike his fellow dem, the League administrator does not seek the title when he speaks and gives press conferences. “There is hospital pressure but no emergency” attacks the Doge, as they call it in the streets near Palazzo Balbi, the headquarters of the Region.
“Today we have 50 patients in intensive care and 400 in the hospital, in March there were several hundred in intensive care and 2,400 hospitalized. And then we hospitalized one in five, while today 96.5% of those who are positive are asymptomatic. The number of infected more than that of March is not indicative, it is only because today we make an incredible amount of tampons. Here in Veneto, in the last few weeks alone, we have run 1.5 million rapid tests. The mapping of the territory is fundamental in the fight against the virus, since the time of the carpet examinations in Vo Euganeo ».
The president of the Northern League was one of the bulwarks of the fight in Covid. He had to get used to being exalted also by the left, which tried to exploit him in an anti-Salvini key and attack Lombardy. Unable to scratch their power in the lagoon, where even before the pandemic the governor had 70% of the vote, the majority of Giallorossi tried to use Zaia and the Veneto model as a weapon to discredit Governor Fontana and the region further. large, populated and rich. Italian, fiefdom of the center right. “Although I am aware that each one, when he speaks, has his own purposes, I am kindly grateful to my Giallorossi fans, to whom I remind them that my homeland is Veneto and from here I do not stop. The applause is nice, wherever they come from, but they don’t give you 77%, this is the percentage with which I was re-elected less than a month ago, to do politics. Even in this, I am a member of the League to the end, ”commented the Doge.
What is the Zaia government model, president?
“Work hard, feel the responsibility to represent a people and never throw them into politics. I have not let my guard down this summer, I have not gone on vacation.
The government, on the other hand, has talked this summer, sleeping on the benefits of three months in prison, and today we find ourselves struggling with the second wave.
“We don’t argue when there are dead. I have too many worries to waste energy on arguments. I speak only for myself. I have always kept my guard very high and have never stopped working, as I imagine my other colleagues. Since June I have been thinking about the autumn scenario, which is more complicated because now we have developed a psychosis: everyone, as soon as they have a cold, is convinced that they have Covid and puts pressure on the health system ”.
What are you holding?
“Here in Veneto only 10% of the places in intensive care are occupied by Covid patients. We are at the moment when the traffic light, barely green, begins to turn yellow and blink.”
When do you expect red?
“It may never come. It also depends on the behavior of Italians. To whom I say, as always, they must wear a mask.
Observe the spacing and wash your hands
“Yes, but this is not a litany, they are life-saving devices. The mask will help us defeat the virus.
How worried are you?
“In March I didn’t sleep at night.”
And now?
“I started to wake up suddenly.”
How did the Region prepare during the summer months for the inevitable arrival of the second wave?
“I have had stocks of masks and medical supplies for months. Before the pandemic, the Padua hospital used 950 gowns per month; Today he consumes 4,500 a day.
We were reckless before
“How do you say it was negligence?” If before the Covid I had forced doctors to change their shirts every day, they would have thrown me in jail for tax damages.
How did you do a million and a half rapid tests in a few weeks?
«Strengthening the diagnostic front. We have created about forty points, open from 7 to 13, where citizens have access to tampons. We do the rapid test and in five minutes the citizens know if they are positive.
Sorry, if the rapid test was as safe as the molecular swab, everyone would do it, don’t you think?
“Thanks to the work of Professor Rigoli, coordinator of the Treviso Center for Microbiology, we have performed eleven thousand double tests, rapid and classic swab, and we have seen that in 99% of cases the results are comparable. The quick test allows you not to stop the country. On the other hand, in medicine we think like this: before undergoing a CT scan, you do a blood test. Our tampon is licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, the US government agency that regulates pharmaceuticals. “
Are you in favor of the closures that the government is preparing to make?
Here in Veneto, for the moment, I would not close anything. We have organized to move forward and I am working hard not to do any confinement.
But aren’t you the one from distance education?
“Which does not mean closure. I believe, and I repeat, that older children, at this stage, can follow an alternation: half in class, half at home, so as not to have overcrowding at school and not to overload public transport, which is one of the great vehicles of infection “.
If the government closes everything, do you destroy it?
“The pandemic is not approached with arm wrestling. It is true that there is a national direction to manage it but it foresees roundtables with the territory. Each Region has its own history, both in terms of the epidemic and public health, the sensitivity of the population and the use of money.
In other words, he wants to do everything himself.
“It is essential that the rulers understand that the difference between the Regions and Rome is that we have the sick at the door, they do not. The government must respect our autonomy ”.
Most Giallorossi have said several times that the pandemic is proof that health must be managed by the center
“The centralists are wrong despite everything, because they reason with a medieval mentality. They are anachronistic and their theory of the state leads to failure. In Veneto we have 68 hospitals, 58 thousand health workers and 80 million services per year. Can you explain to me how it is possible for Rome to run the system? The health machine is too complex to be centralized. On the other hand, you asked me what is the secret of my model of government; I’ll explain it right away: always be present on the site. To stop the virus in Veneto you have to be here.
Nostalgia for secession?
«The pandemic has taught us that the winning recipe is differentiated autonomy, envisioned by our founding fathers. Those who are capable of flying alone must let go. The state helps those in need, but it does not limit our freedom. We know what to do.
Did you lack autonomy in managing the first wave?
«The Vo Euganeo tampons, my idea, however, have given me great popularity. And this helped. Veneto’s secret is that we have carried out a successful health reform, establishing a single purchasing coordinating center, and we have created an effective work team. So we never gave up: I was present in the crisis unit for 140 consecutive days.
A recommendation from the Covid warrior?
“I want to tell the deniers that it is not about counting the patients or the lower lethality of the virus. The question is that we must be cautious because otherwise hospitals will become congested and deal with only Covid again. Which means not treating others and increasing the number of deaths.
But the virus is less lethal
“It may be that it has changed, that it reasons conservatively and, like all living beings, does not want to destroy its habitat, which is the human body. Either it is disappearing on its own, as sooner or later all viruses do, or some immunity has spread. Or, simply, we benefit from the climate, which has not yet turned stiff. Covid is basically a corona, which is a form of the flu, and therefore it returns to violence with the cold. I am not a scientist, it is not my place to say. I’m sure it will end one day anyway. ‘
So he’s optimistic, will everything be okay?
“Only pessimists don’t make a fortune.”
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