“Dear State, can you explain to me why I, a customer, must have the Super green pass to enter the restaurant and the restaurateur doesn’t? Where is the logic? “@lucianinalitti a #CTCF with @fabfazio pic.twitter.com/n5z8Qq5xkY
– Che tempo che fa (@chetempochefa) December 12, 2021
Nobody thinks that Luciana Littizzetto has passed this side of the barricade, that is, on the side of those who believe that the super green pass, as well as his “simple” younger brother, both to be eliminated entirely. This is not what emerged in the last episode of What’s the weather like. But the usual show of the comic’s “weekly letter” deserves to be mentioned to address a broader reflection on the pass. Whether it is legitimate or not, whether it is useful or not in curbing the epidemic, one thing is evident to everyone, even to the priests of the closures: that the bureaucratic beast that the state has created with and around the green pass is pure folly. A set of rules, regulations, exceptions and dissimilar applications that forces restaurateurs, bartenders and traders to extricate themselves from a regulatory mess that is almost impossible to apply.
The recipient of the “Lucianina” letter is the government. “They have begun the checks for the super green pass – said Littizzetto – but with respect to this I would like to ask the State something “, in particular regarding the fact that the super green pass must be obtained by customers who go to eat sitting at the bar (not at the counter, ed), but not the cooks, waiters and all those who work in the restaurant. “How come? Because? – Littizzetto asked herself -. If smoking is forbidden in the station, I don’t smoke but it’s not like the conductor makes himself a calumet of peace as he goes up and down the wagons. It would be as if I had to show my driving license to take a taxi and the driver just needs the pink sheet. Do I mean my dear State? “.
It is clear: Lucianina would also like to impose the super pass on workers, effectively condemning the no vax waiters to unemployment or citizenship income, because “in the restaurant the contact between you and me is direct, the cook cooks, you cough in your hand then you slice the octopus and bread the Milanese with a runny nose, and what do I know?” . We do not share. Especially if the alternatives it comes up with are even creepy: 1) that the employers accept the negative test of the workers (ie the basic green pass), but then “together with the menu of the day you also bring me the results of the swabs of those who work, so I eat calmly”; 2) that restaurateurs write to the cashier “here we all have the green pass”; 3) that customers stop going to places where not all are vaccinated. A horror.
Or rather, a reasoning that does not take into account those workers who, legitimately, given that the State does not require the vaccine, they refused to join the vaccination campaign. But at least Lucianina this time had the merit, probably without realizing it, of showing what we have been denouncing for some time: that is, that the rules of the green pass are an ignoble regulatory babel without any logic. Do you remember? When the green pass was entered for the first time to eat at the restaurant, the waiter of a local could enter to work, but not to sit at the table and make a plate of pasta. As if the virus knew how to distinguish who runs with the pass, without or with his superman version. As Littizzetto says: “Where is the logic?”.
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