"I would have a great desire to speak from the trench in which I have been with Dr. Borrelli and our collaborators for 40 days, to talk about the liberals who issue daily sentences from a sofa with a cocktail in hand. But I won't do it, my duty is to work ". Commissioner Domenico Arcuri said this during a press conference at the Civil Protection, arguing with those who "say that the price of the masks is made by the market, sipping their centrifuged".
The data coming from Germany - adds the Commissioner, commenting on the news that the R with zero, the index of contagiousness of the virus, has returned to rise in Germany from 0.7 to 1.1 - shows how high the risk of go back to a total lockdown if the containment measures are relieved too quickly.
"The government is considering whether to define red areas again to avoid the extension of new outbreaks of infection, which are starting to manifest again - he added - This is why getting out of the lockdown is not easy and that's why being forced to return to the lockdown would not be difficult"
Returning to the issue of masks, Arcuri reiterated that "the state must buy all the masks it finds. I set the maximum price in the interest of citizens, I did not set the maximum purchase price. The state must encourage Italian production, as with 'Cura Italia': we reassured the producers that we will buy everything they produce. 105 thanked us, only one had any doubts. " "The state must produce all the masks it can and encourage production, the idea that setting a maximum price lowers the Italian company's ability to produce is superficial or very poorly informed - he adds -. Is it a war economy? No, It is civic sense. Is it forever? No, until the market is free. It is damage to shameful speculators, I claim it. There will no longer be masks in pharmacies and supermarkets? Of course, none that costs more than 0 ,50 euros".
