May 4, phase 2 begins: Are we really sure?

(by John Blackeye) The average Italian does not need so many frills and reassurances so phase two has already started for a week as deserted cities have suddenly populated with cars that speed at full speed.

Yes, because despite the fact that cars are relatively few on the road and traffic almost non-existent compared to that of ordinary time, where you can take half an hour to go from one traffic light to another, in Rome, for example, the Romans they continue to speed even though the traffic is completely regular. And then you see, even in the time of the coronavirus, the Romans had to speed at full speed zigzagging between the lanes of the great ring road and if instead they are busy driving in the city, they run like crazy without even knowing why. They were born in traffic, they don't know another way to be driving, they have to run.

The step then from phase two to phase three, pending the usual decrees of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers which will sanction the reduction of restrictions, was done in one day. In fact, on Saturday the twenty-fifth of April everyone was now out on the street singing their hearts out, making toasts and picnics.

It was enough to anticipate on television that there would be a drop in the restrictions that the Italians, who trust the political authorities, did not wait for written measures and poured into the streets exclaiming: "Thank goodness it's over!"

But that it is over does not establish it a President of the Council of Ministers nor a stressed people closed within the walls of the house. We have never fought a war like this and believing that we won when there are still more than 2300 new people infected and more than four hundred dead, is a serious evaluation error that can cost us dearly.

Globally, all the heads of nations are singing victory as the number of victims continues to rise. We want to end this game with the virus that stunned us in the past three months. In the name of GDP and the spread, it is necessary immediately to throw oneself back into the future, that is, to the past, trying to start again from where we stopped.

But the war against the virus cannot be won with a unilateral declaration. It is not won by issuing a decree. The war against the virus is won when the virus is defeated and, to date, the virus, only in Italy has infected more than two thousand three hundred people. Do you want these people not to have infected others? And others? It is clear that the outbreak has not yet gone out and it is equally clear that safety measures and social distance have not been respected if there are still many infections. But while knowing that the pandemic is still evolving, suggesting methods that have not worked, the government has decided that this is enough. The war is over, go in peace.

It seems that the heads of governments want to shake off the pandemic as soon as possible and in particular the Italian one is adopting solutions that can never be applied. Social distancing on public transport in a city like Rome where on every bus there are at least fifteen African immigrants who move without a ticket in the most disparate directions, will not be possible. Thus, May XNUMXth may not be remembered as the day of the restart but as that of the armistice against a virus that has no intention of leaving alone. It is a surrender of the state. Politicians want to try. Industry pressures are strong, so go get your health blessed.

Other outbreaks could reopen and what happened in Lombardy we could see happening elsewhere but industrial production will have raised the level of GDP even if at that point, the Italian people will need a blessing.

May 4, phase 2 begins: Are we really sure?