So far his simple signature has been making noise atappeal of the 600 university professors against the green pass to attend lectures or take exams. Now, through the Corriere della Sera, professor Alessandro Barbero – medievalist, full professor at the University of Eastern Piedmont, myth of historical dissemination on the web and on TV, from Quark a RaiStoria – explains his position on green certification. To be vaccinated, first of all: “Someone presents me as a kind of superstitious fanatic against vaccines – he says in the interview – But in the appeal I signed there is no mention ofusefulness of vaccinesIndeed, it is clearly stated that many of the signatories are vaccinated, including myself. The problem that worries me is the obligation of the green pass for the students who after paying flowers of university fees they are excluded from lessons if they do not have the certificate “. Barbero’s position, however, is not limited to schools and universities, but also to the world of work: “It is not a question of being indifferent to the safety of those who work – he explains – but there are humiliating measures of which it is impossible to see the usefulness: I am thinking of those workers O policemen they can’t eat in cafeteria sitting next to colleagues, with whom, however, they worked side by side until a minute before ”. There are still some objections: what could be the alternative, if it is true that the vaccination obligation, concretely, especially in some contexts, would be complicated to verify? Barbero explains that he considered it necessary to take his position also for “concern and indignation”That he saw among his students. “Many colleagues have a different position, including the rector of my university, and they do well to express it publicly: the university is precisely the place where you look for the truth without expecting to have it already in your pocket, and you face doubts, rather than silence them “. Insults? “Very few”. But “letters from people who say they are disappointed and do not understand, many” and “many people who thank me, and not from superstitious barbarians, but from people of all kinds, including colleagues specialists in medicine and law”.
The point, in short, is the protection of rights and the lack of accountability of politics, of the government to put it better, which unloads on students and workers the weight of a choice that is individual but that with the green pass risks leading to discrimination: this is Barbero’s reasoning. “The government – he says – believes it can take away from the people fundamental rights, not even civil or political, but human, like that of accessing a hospital or one university lecture and considers it irrelevant, so much so that you don’t hear a word to say at least that it is worried and sorry of having to do it, and without taking the responsibility of making it required by law the vaccine, a measure with which I, although not without doubts, would agree in the end “.
Of all this, Barbero complains, there is no mention in public opinion: “Living in a country where you cannot get on a train or enter a public office or go to university if you do not have a piece of paper which however – for heaven’s sake! – it is absolutely not mandatory, it is surreal e unsettling. Who cares about this violation of rights maybe he exaggerates and I would be happy to discuss with those who think that in the situation we are experiencing it is a question of abstract concerns. Instead all this happens without a balanced public debate, and in the midst of the Chania of insults on both sides, and this is indeed the case terrifying“.
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