(by Marco Zacchera) Eight months ago (time runs ...) the town reacted to Covid by garrisoning the balconies, sticking posts and sheets for the inevitable "Everything will be fine" but above all by demonstrating substantial unity and obedience.
Today, however, street protests are multiplying and criticism of Conte is growing in his own government.
A sense of responsibility is not to fall into demagogy and controversy, but this is required for everyone, even to those who command who - in the objective general difficulties - are proving to have more and more objective limits of authority and credibility.
Without prejudice to the right of all to be able to protest in a civil manner and isolating the violent, it is evident that extremists and professionals of disorder easily infiltrate the square (with the novelty of problematic immigrants from the urban suburbs), but there is no doubt that millions of Italians now sympathize - unlike in the past - with those who protest.
The acute Covid crisis is becoming chronic and the community is much more worried than before because it is anguished by continuous news of misfortunes, it does not see reactions and positive numbers, it is no longer able to combine the new sacrifices with the hope of finally getting out of the tunnel.
There are obvious absurdities like asking for the resignation of Naples De Luca if it was voted on only a month ago (and which among other things was consistently distinguished by promises to the flamethrower), just as it is demagogic to criticize "from within" the government of which one continues to belong to the Matteo Renzi who does not lose the habit of trying to float at the expense of others by regularly being crafty.
The common sense of the people, however, perceives the vertical collapse of Conte's credibility above all for having appointed "motu proprio" commissioners, technical and scientific committees that have either been forgotten or now prove to be the bearers of contradictions and controversies, sowing uncertainties with "shouts" Manzonian outside reality.
For example, entire categories - from gyms to restaurants - have adapted to the "scientific" requirements and are now closed anyway: how to believe more in those who issue decrees in bursts seasoned only by "refreshments" that in the past have been of much longer repayment and - especially for medium-sized enterprises - are still at stake between inquiries and documents?
In general, a whole series of contradictions are perceived in public opinion that undermine the credibility and authority of Conte and some of his ministers.
You cannot buy hundreds of thousands of school desks more or less on wheels (costing tens of millions of euros) which are then not used because the schools - after an exhausting debate that lasted months - in the end close anyway: whoever brings them responsibility?
Just as they closed their eyes for months at the Viminale in front of the night "movida" without sanctioning outlaw users and above all unscrupulous merchants and then having the public places closed all together, indiscriminately, at 18 pm including the multitude of those who have nothing to do with it nothing with the customers of the night and above all they did their duty and observed the regulations.
In short, we cannot make the months run uselessly by announcing the flood and not prepare a plan for urban transport in the meantime when there was the certainty that this would be a fundamental aspect to avoid the spread of the virus. A lack of planning that is also valid - and above all - for the health organization, the collection of tampons, the speed of checks, etc.
How many times have we heard President De Luca threaten havoc when intensive care posts in Campania 267 would have remained as in April for almost 6 million inhabitants.
All these problems have worn down the image of many regional governors but also the credibility of Conte who - let's face it - essentially resists due to lack of alternatives, but no longer has either the appeal or the credibility and above all the authority of the debut.
This is where the seed of protest grows while some immediate decisions are missing to avoid general economic meltdowns. One for all, blocking the interest and penalties owed by businesses and households to a myriad of financial companies for emergency loans contracted in this terrible year.
While funds and public guarantees have favored large companies, a spiral of new debts has opened up for millions of Italians that inexorably opens the way to the underworld: those who protest in the square know that - by closing now - they will no longer be able to exit even from plays like these.