(By John Blackeye) We were thrilled to hear the words of the English Premier Boris Johnson because, at least as far as I'm concerned, we had never heard of "herd immunity".
Then, deepening the concept it was understood that herd immunity is one of the lines of action to follow in the event of a world epidemic and is equivalent to saying that in the face of the increase in infections, the sick and the deceased, one must remain almost helpless, leaving citizens alone in the war against the virus. Those who at the end of the struggle remain standing, that is, alive and healed, represent the part of the healthy population, the immunized one, which in Great Britain defines itself as flock. The others, alas, did not deserve to live. Too bad, however, that this theory has an actually very dark side, that is, a good part of the population should be left to its fate. If you are strong, survive, if you are weak, it was your fault, and you die.
And to think that we who in Italy have also borrowed the name of the Ministry of Health or Health from Great Britain, converting it into the very English Ministry of Welfare. Of course, if the British protect citizens' health so it is preferable to return to the Italian Ministry of Health.
Basically, Boris Johnson had warned the British a little by paraphrasing a Roman style of saying, that is: "Whose turn it is to nun”, In summary, do not be angry at those who have to suffer the infection.
With this statement, the British Prime Minister had hinted that the overseas policy - unlike what happened in Italy and in other parts of the world where the sick were treated - was not to fight the pandemic with massive health interventions but to wait that everything would pass by itself, with great savings for the state coffers and less efforts in terms of general mobilization.
Hospitals, doctors and nurses would have, in a not very clear logic, had to wait for the virus to reap its victims and then to reckon, at the end of the pandemic, of how many remained "immune" (in the flock) and how many had gone to better life.
Things didn't turn out that way because as people began to experience the symptoms caused by the coronavirus, they came to the nearest hospital and either you want, or you don't want, even Britain has found itself with the clogged lanes of sick to intubate and with the contingent of doctors and nurses engaged in restless shifts.
The prime minister's wish, to let the coronavirus pass through the island without resistance, did not work.
So the herd immunity theory went straight to the second page, then the third and then the fourth.
Now, however, the coronavirus has hit and hit Prime Minister Boris Johnson in full, who said he was positive.
And at this point the whole international community should invoke the same great consistency that the Brexit leader has carried out with a drawn sword. Coherence in words and coherence in facts. He wanted herd immunity, now you refuse treatment. Only in this way will we understand that this man was not a fool but a man of speech.