Italian man tries to avoid vaccination by using fake arm – Wel.nl

An Italian man did not want a shot, but did want a corona pass to go to work. Therefore, at his vaccination, he appeared with an artificial arm.

The man in his fifties arrived for his inoculation with a silicone mold on his real arm. But the nurse who was going to administer the jab was not fooled and turned the man in to the police.

The healthcare worker told local media that the impostor’s skin felt rubbery and cold. Also the color was ‘too light’. After the man passed out, he tried to convince the nurse to turn a blind eye, writes Italian newspaper La Repubblica. But she didn’t.

“This case is laughable, if it weren’t so bad,” Albert Cirio, head of the regional government in Piedmont, said on Facebook. He called the move “unacceptable given the sacrifices made by the entire community during the pandemic, in terms of human lives, economic and social costs.”

The man was reportedly a health care worker who has been suspended for not being vaccinated. The corona jab is mandatory in Italy for everyone who works in healthcare.

La Repubblica suspects the incident is not unique, pointing to a social media post that may have been posted by the man. It mentions a silicone bodysuit for men including arm and neck, which is for sale on Amazon for 488 euros.

“If I go with this, will they notice? Maybe I’ll put some extra clothes under the silicone suit to keep the needle from reaching my real arm,” it said on Twitter.

Since August, Italians have been required to have a ‘green pass’, with proof of vaccination, cure or a negative test to access train stations, cinemas, restaurants and swimming pools. But from Monday, a negative test is no longer sufficient.