"Until the end of the vaccination campaign we must all pay particular attention to ourselves and above all to others": one year after the video in which the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana announced that he would wear the mask because he had been in contact with a positive person to the coronavirus, which raised a fuss of controversy, the president returns to ask to maintain correct behavior.
And therefore keep the distance, disinfect your hands and wear the mask.
And he takes the opportunity to remove, albeit gracefully, a few pebbles from his shoe, while some councilor (or ex like Giulio Gallera) publishes a video on social media in which his announcement and the criticisms he received and the final image of the premier are mounted Mario Draghi with mask.
"The mask has always been identified as the only means to defend oneself and others from the circulation of any type of virus. So - he observes - it was not a difficult prospect to foresee. Evidently they unleashed against me as part of the public opinion against Lombardy in a somewhat free way ".
Apologies for the criticisms have not arrived, he explained, except from the journalist Alda D'Eusanio.
But everyone agreed on the importance of using the mask.
"Gradually many doctors and scientists confirmed how necessary it was. I remember Professor Garbagnati (from the Cancer Institute, ed) who from the beginning supported me in saying go ahead with this campaign in favor of the mask because it is fundamental".
But more than in the past, Fontana looks ahead.
"Compared to a year ago we have a huge advantage: better, more efficient treatments, more targeted to fight the virus and above all we have the prospect of a vaccination that will be the only means by which we can defeat the virus. There is a small step that we must overcome - he says -, that is to have more doses of vaccine. It is missing, for some time we have been asking for it we must insist that our government be able to obtain the greatest amount of vaccines in order to do this operation on the entire population which would surely lead us to victory about the virus ".
"Until there is the conclusion of the vaccination campaign, you will always have to pay close attention. For this - he concludes - I repeat to exhaustion that citizens must maintain those virtuous behaviors of distancing the use of the hand disinfection mask that help slow down the circulation of the virus ".
