Coronavirus and Civil Protection bulletins

(John Blackeye) Anxiously awaited, like every evening, the latest bulletin of the Civil Protection has arrived. Sector insiders, journalists, politicians and ordinary people stop for five minutes and carefully read that sheet that reports the situation of the evolution of the pandemic on the national territory. The phrase that is repeated several times by the Commissioner of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, while reading the data is "today compared to yesterday only". The number of daily deaths is said only at the end, but not reported in the press releases which are then sent to the press. Only today for the first time, the number of deceased, the daily one, is clearly written on the press release received in the editorial office.

To take away the anxiety from the "bulletin", the usual press conference with which Borrelli provides data on the progress of the pandemic in Italy will no longer be daily but it will be held twice a week, only the Monday and Thursday. This was announced by Borrelli himself during yesterday's press point: "The complete data will be" online "every day, on the Department's website". Will it be a way to lighten the minds of Italians, in view of the upcoming opening of commercial activities?  The fact is that most Italians, even those who do not have "an internet network" and a PC, will learn the data of the bulletin in a different and no longer certain way, provided that the news and newspapers do not decide to report the information every other day. , or worse twice a week.

Civil Protection data. The first value that is represented is that of the total infected. To date we are about 175.434 thousand infected even if it is now common opinion that this is underestimated data. It could be the fateful tip of an iceberg, that is, those reported are the cases that have arisen or that have been able to find. But the rest?

The increase compared to yesterday, of the newly infected, is 3491 people but on this important number, we return to the end.

Following the Civil Protection document, which has now become a very important reference for the national community, try to acclaim other numbers, trying to give a positive reading to something dramatic and, unfortunately, this attempt may deceive the less careful but certainly not those who have understood what to look for in order to have the magnitude of the problem, are not quite successful. That is, reading the entire sheet does not tear anyone a smile.

I 482 dead today they are read as a positive signal, as well as a positive is the number of minus 779 hospitalizations compared to the previous day and i 2200 healed more than the day before.

We try in every way to give a green color to what was red the day before, in a graph made of roller coasters that at the moment does not record any sharp descent. We try to keep the Italian people good who, unable to leave the house, are nailed in front of the TV to understand what is going on out there, perhaps listening in the distance to some siren of an ambulance.

Someone, among the experts, feels the need to want to reach immediately and at all costs a descending phase of the disease that it was hoped to be able to record after only fifteen days from the beginning of phase one, that is, the one in which the restrictions were placed to circulation and production. But this did not happen. Even science, which had claimed that the two-week quarantine, equal to the incubation period of the virus, would have ended the game with the pandemic, it came out with broken bones. Unfortunately, this virus continues to displace everyone.

I 482 dead however, even today, an incalculable drama for as many families remains. Which are added to those of the previous days, highlighting a national framework in which twenty thousand families are crying someone. Twenty thousand families have lost a loved one or more than one and have not even had time to say goodbye to them for the final farewell. A farewell to which you are never ready but no one could have ever imagined that you could not look into the eyes of your loved one for the last time, because the virus that has cut many lives has forced the cremation of the corpses. From life to nothing in a few weeks.

Despite the efforts of the civil protection, those data of the bulletin do not even manage to give a sign of positivity or, if you wanted to brush up your soul, a sign of hope.

We will probably know the gravity and immensity of the drama well when it is all over. When, like after a bombing, you will go around the rubble to try to understand what happened. It will be in that moment that the broken lives, the destroyed hopes and the pains of so many families who do not even know where to cry who were with them until a few weeks before will come to light.

Ma the tragedy in the tragedy is that the interpretation of objective data must be forced at all costs who say nothing good, trying to turn them into a positive message.

In reality or in scientific logic, what matters is the number of new infections. This is what makes us understand how the pandemic is going. In fact, the percentage of the deceased and the recovered or hospitalized and discharged may affect the management statistics of the phenomenon but to understand if the pandemic is stopping or is expanding, only one data needs to be read: that of new infections.

Today there are about 3491 and this suggests that the virus is galloping quickly from one part of Italy to another. We will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel when, reading the number of new infected, we can use the fingers of one hand.

Almost four thousand new cases every day are an enormous amount and they allow us to glimpse that the pandemic hemorrhage, caused by the sneaky and lethal virus, has not yet ended. Indeed, the infection is still ongoing and is still substantial therefore, let's get ready to reassess phase two wanted by everyone.

At the moment, in the battle between us and the pandemic, the virus is still winning, ea nothing is worth the sweetened readings of war bulletins.

Today, like yesterday, is a day to forget and to hope that on May XNUMXth there will be a turnaround that makes us smile, it becomes increasingly difficult. The fact is that today many people have read that bulletin and reading, at the end of the page, as already said, has not left a smile to anyone.

Coronavirus and Civil Protection bulletins