unpopularity is better than playing on health “

The worst moment for Umbria and the Umbrians. The worst political moment for President Tesei, besieged by criticism from the opposition, the trade unions, and forced to deal with the profound disappointment – which can be felt on social media – of traders, artisans and families struggling with a repeat of economic tsunamis. The worst moment because even the second leg of the center-right coalition, Brothers of Italy, is breaking away from health management and asking for a change of course by the regional government.

The president Donatella Tesei however, he does not give up and continues his battle against the pandemic and the economic crisis. The tone is always the same – not weakened by this political-health earthquake -, the style is serious and not inclined to wink at the public; sixth report to the regional council: not an official defense but both an explanation and a plan to overturn the political and health result. There is no need for the accusations of passive government: “I asked the Healthcare and the Scientific Technical Committee for a report, when from January 22 to 28 there was an increase in infections of 448 units, the positives to 5004, admissions to quota 400 and intensive care 53. On 29 January I wrote to the mayors proposing, in a logic of total institutional collaboration, adequate restrictive measures “.

Those damned variants of Covid who blew up the bank and opened the Pandora’s box of controversies, were discovered in circulation in central Italy by the Umbrian health taskforce: “The scientific value of the work carried out in Umbria by technicians, Cts and epidemiological team “. With pride but aware of the growing unpopularity – also the result of political distrust at the national level after a year of sacrifices, all thwarted by second and third waves – Tesei says in the regional council chamber: “The English variant affects the little ones and the Brazilian , still little known, turned out to be very contagious. I did what any governor would have done, facing unpopularity to protect the health of the Umbrians. A moment of great pain, of sacrifices, I have our young people at heart “.

Thundering from the benches of the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement against the inability to manage Umbrian healthcare, not to have a plan against the pandemic and above all the arrogance of not listening to anyone, bringing Umbria and the Umbrians to the edge of the abyss. Here the tone of President Tesei becomes high and without reading she remembers all that done by heart and that had worked perfectly until mid-January when the English and Brazilian variants made the tragic appearance in the territory and in the hospital of Perugia. “We have tried to reopen the schools in a safe way, doing swabs, screening, from today for the youngest groups. Transport at 50 per cent of the filling, while on a national scale it is at 80”.

Umbria a national case … yes it is true but only because according to the President, comforted according to her by the scientific dossiers, she was the first to face the dragon bite of the Covid variant: “The Brazilian variant risks becoming the new monster of this crisis throughout Italy. New outbreaks are known in Bologna, in the Marches, in Abruzzo, in Messina, in Molise, in Tuscany, while Alto Adige has a three-week lockdown “.

Then the appeal to all sail on the same side, to avoid controversy and falsehoods, which can have worse effects on citizens and on the economy than those of the virus: “Today the common enemy mentioned in the document produced by this Assembly has a name: an English and Brazilian variant. all in the same trench “. An appeal for the unity of the Umbrians and also of his coalition. The next 10 days are fundamental for an expected change.

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