The ordinary madness of anti-Covid protocols: a paradigm shift in the relationship between the state and citizens
The quirinal votes last week, which ended with the re-election of Sergio Mattarella as President of the Republic, obscured some news that should have occupied the front pages of every newspaper. The death of Simone, a 23-year-old young man suffering from thrombocytopenia, who was prevented by nurses from a Florentine hospital from seeing his parents for the last time in compliance with the crazy anti -Covid protocols. This story, steeped in inhumanity and bureaucratic obtuseness, offers numerous food for thought. A greeting, a kiss, a hug should not be denied to anyone. Least of all a mother and a father, and a young man forced to face an untimely and unjust death.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. A few weeks ago, a woman with severe pain in her stomach lost her child after having an abortion in the parking lot of a hospital in Sassari. Perhaps the doctors could have saved the baby she was carrying. But the lady hadn't done a molecular swab in the previous hours and the nurses refused to visit her, inviting her to return with the swab if the situation worsened.
Another incredible story, this time dating back to last April 23: in the province of Padua, a 56-year-old woman left the house, violating the Covid quarantine, to rescue a motorcyclist who ended up in a ditch. Once the carabinieri arrived, the complaint was triggered. The two months of arrest to which the lady was initially sentenced were commuted to a 4,500 euro fine. A very dangerous message: next time, instead of helping your neighbor, turn away.
We are collective madness. What happened goes beyond the media alarmism that we have repeatedly denounced in Atlantico Quotidiano. In this particular historical moment, we are witnessing a real paradigm shift regarding the relationship between state and citizen. The "liturgy of terror", both on paper and audiovisual, finds its full realization in the closed mentality of the bureaucrat who puts the quibble as such before his own code of ethics. It is clear, the law exists – and woe if it were not so! – to safeguard the collective interest and to guarantee democratic order. However, it cannot represent the only compass of human action. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, an authoritative exponent of German idealism, made a clear distinction between law, morality and ethics. Law constitutes the foundations of a society, regulating the relationships between its members. Morality invests the inner sphere of the individual and concerns not only the action itself but also the intention with which it is carried out. Ethics represents the point of conjunction between law and morality.
Unfortunately, not all officials and bureaucrats pursue the morality and ethics theorized by Hegel. What is the point of respecting such a senseless and illogical protocol as the one that prevents parents from seeing a child before they die? What is the point of fining a 56-year-old woman who violated the quarantine to rescue a motorcyclist in danger? But above all: what drives a man to respect an unjust law, putting respect for bureaucratic orthodoxy before his own moral sense? The rules must indeed be applied, but with rationality and without fanaticism. So at least it should happen in a state of law.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Atlantico Quotidiano at the URL https://www.atlanticoquotidiano.it/quotidiano/lordinaria-follia-dei-protocolli-anti-covid-un-cambio-di-paradigma-nel-rapporto-fra-stato-e-cittadini/ on Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:49:00 +0000.