There are two questions.
The first: where do they find the time to always be on TV? The second: where do they find the strength to quarrel with each other?
Because now they are fighting.
And bad.
A daily mix.
Epidemiologists, virologists, anesthetists, entomologists expert on mosquitoes, all of whom have become famous with this pandemic, all teachers, all primary, almost all luminaries in their field, are fighting with words. With arguments that, however, often no longer have only a scientific character: the controversies, in fact, bend on the private, on the past, the allusions begin to have an unpleasant political flavor, and even worse.
Think about it.
Think local.
We, with the rosary of the dead, the infected, with the fear, the anguish, the pure terror for this damned Covid.
They are connected by unspecified places, usually rooms full of books, in a cemetery penumbra, although the last time Professor Alberto Zangrillo he was in a room with an antique painting and the tricolor flag hanging on the wall, like the Quirinale.
Zangrillo, live with “L’Aria che tira”, on La7, answers a question from Myrta Merlino, and throws it there: saying that he has noticed, “Professor Galli always accuses me covertly”, is that way of to accuse sneaky, “the enemy pointed out without naming him, typical of a former sixty-eight” – as is precisely Galli, who has gone from eskimo to terrifying patterned ties, often in electric blue.
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Zangrillo concludes: «Galli should denounce me».
Everyone knows that Zangrillo is also Silvio Berlusconi’s personal doctor, he also treated him from Covid, and then immediately the saraband breaks out. The attack seems political, indeed – many say – it is really political; commentators at work: yes, that’s it, this is proof that left and right still exist in Italy.
Punctual, in the evening, Professor Galli, head of Infectious Diseases of the Sack of Milan – true media revelation of the past lockdown, the air always an intolerant thread, but clear, credible concepts, unfortunately regularly confirmed by the facts – is already at Bianca Berlinguer, at «Carta Bianca». And he replies: “I cannot denounce Zangrillo because the crime of denial does not exist in this country”.
On Twitter they get excited.
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Someone has read Pinocchio, the hashtag #ZangrilloParlante starts.
They remind him of the statements in June (those that indignant Galli). “The virus, from a clinical point of view, no longer exists.” “Soon we can throw away the masks.” “No second wave: because we know what to do”.
The authors of the talks smell in the dust. But Zangrillo does not have the physical outfit of Enrico Mentana, and every now and then he has to drop the cameras, go home, take a shower. Then the authors point Professor Matteo Bassetti, director of the infectious diseases department at San Martino di Genova. Which specifies – «I denier? If anything, optimistic “- and yet they call him the same, because he was there too, on July 27, in the Senate, at that conference wanted by the Northern League, Armando Siri, former undersecretary at risk of trial for two episodes of corruption, but in any case with the ‘enthusiasm necessary to say that Covid had been narrated with exaggeration (and in fact then at mid-morning Matteo Salvini arrived all pompous who, despite the invitations of the officials of Palazzo Madama, refused to wear the mask, explaining that “the greeting with the elbow is the end of the human species “, something that in fact not even Darwin had ever thought about).
Meanwhile, the agencies beat an anticipation of theEspresso: it seems that Andrea Crisanti, full professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua, is about to move to Spallanzani in Rome.
After all, it’s been weeks since Crisanti quarrels with the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia. Juice of the violent quarrel: Crisanti argues that it was he who suggested the massive use of tampons to find the asymptomatic, a move that then kept the Veneto safe from the first wave; Zaia says instead that the credit goes to her health managers.
Crisanti then snorts, shows WhatsApp, shakes his head, and continues, tirelessly, to be a guest almost everywhere (sometimes, thanks to the recordings, he appears in unified networks). Then one day a statement from Professor Giorgio Palù, his teacher, arrives on his neck: «Look, Crisanti is an expert in mosquitoes. He is an entomologist ».
A tremendous steal.
A low blow.
But Crisanti, instead of being mortified, of justifying himself, of arguing, disagrees: “In any case, I feel close to the Democratic Party.”
He could have said that he likes the Rich and the Poor, who knows by heart the formation of the great Inter, Sarti Burgnich Facchetti: but no, he says he is from the Pd.
Do you think that to avoid saying such a thing, but still campaign for Michele Emiliano and eventually become councilor for health in Puglia, Professor Pierluigi Lopalco, world famous scientist, one morning in June he went to play under the hospital in Bari dressed as Piero Pelù (from the windows nurses watched in amazement, undecided whether to intervene: but then they started laughing).
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October 29, 2020 (change October 30, 2020 | 01:10)
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