Coronavirus, the crisis is the key to change: let’s take away health care from the Regions

We are about to come out of a year that has taken, and is testing us, as individuals and as a community. 2020 has already entered history as the year of global pandemic Covid-19, such as the period that our prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, he called it the most difficult crisis for Italy since the Second World War. Even the head of state himself, Sergio Mattarella, during his speech for the commemoration of the victims of the Fosse Ardeatine last March, during the darkest moments of the national lockdown, compared the health emergency to the world conflict, stating that to be reborn we would have to be capable as a nation of that same unit of which we were capable in the painful years of the second postwar period.

A term of comparison that gives us the idea of ​​the scope epochal of the crisis we are going through. However, it must be said that one thing is the use, more than legitimate, of historical data, another thing is the abuse of the evocation of the tops of war in everyday life.

And in fact it is precisely a war terminology that has marked the story of this pandemic: “the war against the invisible enemy” with doctors and nurses “fighting in the trenches” waiting to find “the effective weapon” against the virus, and so on. Thinking about it now, it wasn’t an effective language and beneficial to describe (and make us and others perceive) a reality that is already highly dramatic in itself, just as it put a strain on our emotional strength.

We cannot change the facts, but we can choose how to respond to them. So in the meantime let’s welcome reality, even in its hardest features, let’s talk well without exacerbating it further and then we give an answer capable of evaluating the margins for improvement and on the basis of these formulate, realistically precisely, concrete proposals. I believe this is the best way to react to the crisis, even existential, of these difficult times: to accept difficulties and formulate solutions with tenacity and kindness, instead of opposing and fighting with greater pain and expenditure of energy.

In the light of what has been experienced, one of the immediate reflections, made hot in the hardest months of the pandemic, among other things, from the columns of Daily fact in an open letter to the Conte government, it obviously concerned the public health and the need to give it back its proper value, remove its management from the Regions and bring it back to the national State, because it is unacceptable that there are Serie A and Serie B territories in the protection of the right to health.

Then the economic and social crisis required a further type of reflection, from the need to strengthen the Basic income to that of establishing a Universal Income. And so continuing with the rethinking of all strategic sectors, the management of the Common Goods and essential public services of our country: from Health to the Environment, from Transport to strategic Infrastructures up to Housing Policies.

From the beginning I talked about how the term “crisis” (from the Greek crisis which means “choice”) contains in itself the key to the drive for change, because it is thanks to moments of crisis that we are forced to think differently from the usual schemes and the usual automatisms and therefore to make a choice. This is the right time to ask ourselves, and consequently to choose, what type of country we want to live in, to co-create together the society we have chosen.

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