And so, four months after putting the seals on Italian schools to never reopen them, we discover that the fate of our children in September hanging on their buccal rhymes. Buccal rhymes? Yes, that’s right. In the latest version of the government guidelines these two mysterious words dictate the conditions for the return to class of 8 million children and young people. With reference to the health indications on physical distancing – reads the document – the literal indication taken from the minutes of the CTS meeting held on 22 June 2020 is reported below: physical distancing (intended as 1 meter between the pupils’ buccal rhymes), remains a point of primary importance in prevention actions. One meter between the pupils’ buccal rhymes. Fortunately there is Treccani. Thus we discover that the word rhymes (from the Latin rhythm), in addition to the main meaning of identity of final sound in the termination of two words, it can also mean slit, crack, crack (this time from the Latin rhyme). And that consequently the buccal rhyme (rhyme outline) the part of the mouth that communicates with the outside world or the opening delimited by the lips (open mouth) in the shape of a transverse gap between the two cheeks (entertainment).
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Latin doctor
Translated into a nutshell, the medical latinorum of the super experts hired by the Ministry of Health, therefore, the definitive measure with which the over 8,000 Italian principals will have to deal with the safe reopening of each of our 40,000 school buildings will be a meter away from mouth to mouth. Because it is now clear that the main way of transmission of the virus is the mouth through the breath droplets that can pass from one infected person to another with a simple cough or sneeze. Compared to the first simulations made in recent weeks on how pupils’ places in class were to be redesigned, the mouth-to-mouth indication certainly more advantageous than that between bench and bench because it allows you to reduce the distances between one row and the other, seen that the pupils turn their backs, thus gaining a few more places. But it remains, however, extremely rigid, if it must be respected to the millimeter. Let’s say that if with the bench-to-bench meter 4 out of ten classes were out of the norm, so they could save a little more.
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French pragmatism
Unless a slightly more pragmatic approach is adopted, such as the one that allowed the French to reopen all elementary and middle schools on Monday for the last two weeks of attendance before the summer closing. Which? What you do with what you have (the French say: faut faire avec) and therefore on the one hand it is prescribed to keep a meter between pupil and pupil, on the other hand it is specified that this indication is valid lorsqu’il est possible , where you can; otherwise if the class configuration does not allow it, the possibility of loosening the rules of spacing is foreseen in order to bend them to the limits imposed by reality. If anything, suggesting the use of the mask, but only from 11 years of age. Moreover – this is the retro thought of French reasoning – zero risk does not exist. Better to give up a few centimeters than to miss the main objective which, beyond the Alps at least, seems to be to guarantee the right to education for everyone, no one excluded.
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June 26, 2020 (change June 26, 2020 | 20:00)
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