The new lockdown will sanction the end of Conte and the center-left (by Giuseppe PALMA)
In March there was the "surprise effect". Three generations that had ignored wars and pestilences, in the presence of the virus threw themselves into the arms of the Prime Minister, the commander in chief at the helm of the nation. All happy and content, including songs on the balconies and fried fish posted on social networks.
Tricolor, national anthem and family dinners, all surrounded by the slogan " everything will be fine ".
An entire people loyal to the rules, ready to point the accusing finger against those who dared to run alone on a beach. The anonymous runner played the new greaser , a new Gian Giacomo Mora. “ Stay home! ", Thundered those of the technical-scientific committee," Stay home! “, The television broadcasts repeated with a beating drum. "House arrest" from 11 March to 3 May, the so-called Phase 1.
The government had promised that no one would be left behind, but on balance – unfortunately – this was not the case: in some cases the layoffs in March arrived in June, that of April in September and still today many have not taken that of the subsequent months. For VAT numbers even worse. In the best case scenario, they obtained from the State 600 euros in March (paid in May), those in April (paid in July) and 1,000 euros in May paid in August: 2,200 euros in three months, not even the cost of the rent of one month's salary. Same goes for bars, restaurants, barbers etc.
But we had escaped it. Of course, at the cost of seeing the constitutional freedoms suppressed with a simple administrative act, the famous Dpcm , but in the end we had brought the pellaccia home.
In July the virus seemed to disappear and we were all preparing to return to normal. Even if there was a second wave, Conte boldly repeated, this time we have the health service up to face the situation. Caution and attention always, but March-April were now behind us, when the lockdown was justified by the fact that there were not enough places in intensive care . Already in June there was talk of 11,000 beds in the presence of 5,000 in March. Six thousand more seats will make us rest easy.
A few days he takes a cold shower . While the number of people admitted to intensive care increased (to date there are about 1,800), it turns out that the ICUs available are not 11,000 but just over 6,600, i.e. just 1,500 more than in March. In practice, from May to October Conte and his majority, instead of equipping hospitals in view of the second wave, wasted time talking about scooters, holiday bonuses and wheeled benches.
With the number of daily infections around 31,000 units (out of about 210,000 daily tampons), even if 94% asymptomatic or slightly symptomatic, the government is now thinking of a new lockdown , perhaps local or regional: intensive care is not enough and is needed. drastic measures. Six months lost in thin air, so families, businesses and VAT numbers will still pay the highest economic and social price. The poor people. Public employees in smart-working with unchanged salaries (with restaurants forced to close also due to the madness of "agile work"), millions of businesses and VAT numbers to starve. A country no longer united as in March, but deeply divided and torn : the guaranteed ones who go about their business against the unsecured abandoned by the state. And moreover with the former pointing their moralistic finger towards the latter.
In the middle, the government, which is solely responsible for the delays in both health and economics.
Last week Conte and Co. closed restaurants and bars at 6 pm, restoring them with 1,000 euros in a month , not even the cost of renting a small restaurant. Alms and no respect for human dignity. From Monday, a new lockdown could even arrive, probably patchy , but still lockdown. Other economic damage to a country already deeply marked by the "imprisonment" of March-April and the economic crisis.
But if eight months ago the people followed and endorsed Conte's line in all respects, this time it will be the exact opposite. For a week now, tens of thousands of restaurateurs, bartenders and VAT numbers have taken to the streets to strongly protest against the government, which first imposed on them absurd protocol rules – but equally respected – and then made them close again . In two days, further restrictive measures also for other categories, and perhaps even severe regional or local closures. But this time, unlike in March, the "surprise effect" is missing : in eight months the government has not adequately strengthened the national health service , now making new closures necessary, arguing between May and July about how to waste the money (scooters and benches on wheels). A vortex of total idiocy discharged for the second time on families, VAT numbers and businesses.
And the opposition did well not to accept today's invitation from Conte to participate in the decision-making “control room” in these difficult hours. Eight months in which the center-right, majority in the country, was humiliated by phone calls from the Prime Minister to Salvini, Meloni and Tajani five minutes before going live on Facebook to announce decisions already made, armored. Now Conte needed the opposition to share further drastic decisions and political failure. Too late . The center-left is now close to being totally invested by the legitimate popular reaction, that of the good people.
In March-April the people were responsible, singing on the balconies and respectful of all the rules. Now you will find him in the streets protesting, in a country that you have culpably destroyed and torn apart. Who is the cause of his illness, cry himself.
Giuseppe PALMA
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by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma, “ DEMOCRACY IN THE QUARANTINE. How a virus swept the country ", Historica edizioni, April 2020.
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