Enough wicked behavior, the vaccine will have to find us prepared: then it will be Christmas all year round! | First page

Health Minister Roberto Speranza has made an epochal act for which it will go down in history. He received the officials of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer with which it officially signed the agreement that provides for the supply to Italy of 1.7 million seven hundred thousand doses of the anti-Covid vaccine by mid-January.

The news relating to the discovery of this precious “elixir” whose experimentation guarantees ninety percent immunity against the virus has an enormous significance for the fate of all humanity and can be combined with other sensational scientific discoveries such as those of penicillin or serum for polio.

An announcement expected by the whole world and even unexpected in such a relatively short time considering that, on average, it takes years and not months to find antidotes to important viral diseases. The effort that Pfizer, the same multinational that invented and launched Viagra on the world market, made together with Biontech is astonishing and underlines the fundamental importance of research to which we are all called to compete for support it.

Now we just have to wait armed with holy patience and great common sense. The number of the first doses that will arrive, according to agreements, will certainly be negligible compared to that of the entire Italian population. The first to benefit from this vaccine will be, rightly so, the health workers who are fighting on the front lines and, later on, the frail elderly people living in retirement homes. Then, gradually, it will be up to the others and the overall operation will certainly not be easy to carry out, also because the same vaccine to be effective must be administered in two stages.

The key thing, therefore, will be to be prepared when the time for capillary prevention arrives. And by preparations we must understand healthy. A possible goal to be achieved only under a very specific condition. Observe all the provisions in place with painstaking care and certainly also those fatally to come that continue to be released from the “headquarters” to limit the damage in this total war.

It is certainly not easy, but it is a duty. People are exhausted, economically and psychologically. The continuous changes of course with the different flags, red and orange and yellow, only increase the disorientation and tension now at the skin’s edge. It would have been better to declare a general Chinese-style lockdown rather than this nerve-wracking “Chinese drop”. But so be it. Now the important thing is that everyone manages their daily lives with prudence and a sense of responsibility strictly avoiding, for example, turning the upcoming Christmas holidays into the wicked replica of the summer holidays.

Let’s be good and postpone everything until the vaccine has arrived and distributed to everyone. After that, it will be Christmas all year round.

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