(ANSA) - SIENA, APRIL 21 - "In the current state of the numbers of deaths, hospitalized in emergency conditions and healthy carriers of the virus, the hypothesis that in a few days it is possible to declare free everyone, appears senseless". Thus began an appeal to caution promoted by Professor Francesco Domenico Capizzi and the historian Adriano Prosperi, signed by about fifty professors, academics, scientists and artists including the philologist Alfredo Stussi, the writer Giancarla Crocignani, Roberto Barzanti, former vice president of the European Parliament, Giovanni Falaschi, professor of Italian literature. university of Perugia and writer. The letter, addressed to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Mario Draghi, explains the fear of how the reopening would risk "make us plunge back into the darkness of a Brazilian-type situation, also given the ability of the virus to continually change with invasive and murderous variants, especially in the context of the intensification of evaccinations with the relative crowds ".
"While respecting the drama of so many workers - continued the appeal - we must remember what happened less than a year ago when in the summer of 2020 the indiscriminate reopening of discos and public places suddenly canceled the positive results achieved thanks to the spontaneous adherence of individual institutions to the strict rules of distance and lockdown ".
"In the face of the collective euphoria that has spread, and that has overturned the cautions contained in President Draghi's promise of opening - the signatories explain - we feel it is right to underline the data that unfortunately risk, if ignored, to bring us back to the abrupt fall in the tragic resumption of the epidemic ". "Without taking into account that we do not just die of Covid-19 because, in a phase in which hospitals are almost entirely involved in the virus emergency, other diseases and other interventions, albeit urgent and for serious illnesses - concludes the letter - are postponed with easily imaginable results. ". (HANDLE).
