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While the Covid-19 contagion bulletin records another record – with over 26,800 cases in the last day, compared to 200,000 swabs, and over 200 deaths – the people opposed to the closure of schools do not give up.
Those opposed to closure
Among the supporters of those who ask to keep teaching in the presence there is the general secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini: “We are, working, doing everything to be able to keep the school open”, Lancini told Sky Tg24.
The confederal trade unionist has asked to increase investments in health care and schools. “We continue to discuss the ESM at this point we need a European ESM. Europe must decide to invest in health, education and the welfare state and stop with the logic of austerity and cuts ”, concluded the leader of the CGIL.
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Also the secretary of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, expresses himself in favor of maintaining the institutions regularly open: speaking to ‘La Repubblica’, he hopes “that the lockdown will not be reached, but a serious and well-explained lockdown as Macron did last night is more understandable than not proceeding with continuous decrees like it was a soap opera. Let’s make a serious plan, even if it is hard if necessary, but a strategic plan six months from now. Not continuous decrees that expire after six days ”.
“The virus is strong, but let’s not turn around it. The re-start of the school with us failed because we thought of wheelchair benches and not of having a medical point in every institution. Because we have exasperated the professors with bureaucratic rules, but we have not made transport work ”.
He echoes him the parent company of Iv Maria Elena Boschi. Speaking in the Chamber on the information provided by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the former minister said: “If the regions close schools and 75% of pupils do distance learning, it is our biggest defeat, which derives from not knowing how to manage the issue of transport. Germany and France who announced the lockdown they keep schools open “.
Miozzo: Covid gets worse, it will be decided in 15 days
It is also said against the stop to teaching Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee: its ‘The Corriere della Sera‘he says we will know if the measures work in “at least two weeks, then we will be ready to decide if we have reached the incompatible limit and we must move on to a more radical intervention like the one we painfully experienced in March and April. Only with strict compliance with the rules, the lockdown it may be remembered as a bad experience of the past ”.
Miozzo explains that the Dpcm is a response “to the current situation in the country which is rapidly deteriorating” and where he says that “since April 18 we have been asking to ‘implement all measures to reduce the peaks in the use of public transport'”. Hospitals “suffer from a pressure that is difficult to sustain in the long term”.
The CTS coordinator confirms himself as “a 100% supporter of the school. The real courage is to keep them open and adapt the system to this need. We must defend it if we do not want to find hundreds of thousands of terrified children suffering from the hut syndrome ”.
Galli: there is no complete distancing
On the other hand, he is among the skeptics of necessarily keeping schools open Massimo Galli, full professor of Infectious Diseases at the State University of Milan and head of the Sacco Hospital: during the Agorà broadcast, on Rai 3, the doctor said that “even if with a lot of suffering, one can only say that schools cannot be considered safe places, beyond political declarations “Because” at this moment, in this country, there are no safe places “.
Commenting on Emiliano’s decision to close schools in Puglia, except for childhood, Galli said that “despite all the efforts made for the school, the risk remains for everything that comes before, after and sometimes during, because the complete distancing you can’t get it “.
According to the head physician, “any place that involves the concentration of numerous people for several hours is unsafe”.
“Time – he added – has really lost a lot in recent months by everyone – said Galli – and transport is one of the main things in which time has been lost”. But the risk, he confirms, is also in restaurants. “Last week the CDCs (US Centers for Disease Control) in Atlanta cited a study that shows how being together with eating, in some realities, is a problem for spread.”
Those who are less certain about the need to keep schools open are the governors. The one from Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, did not think twice to close them it’s at confirm the initiative, also rejecting the invitation of Minister Lucia Azzolina to retrace her steps.
Emiliano: the situation is serious
Among those who believe that the risk threshold has been crossed and it is necessary to switch to dad is also the president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano.
“By suspending face-to-face teaching, I exercised my legitimate prerogatives provided for by the law, as the Prime Minister exercised his with the various Dpcm he issued”, said the governor about the order to close schools starting from Friday 30 October.
During the day, especially on social media, the news of the withdrawal of the order was circulated. “It is a fake – Emiliano replied – set up by those who obviously do not realize the gravity of the moment and enjoy sowing confusion. If I have something to say to the Government or to President Conte I do it in the competent office in confidentiality and without public controversy “.
“We are in a more serious affair than expected – continued Emiliano – which must be managed with unity and mutual respect”.
“We are looking for solutions for Apulian families who do not know where to leave their younger children and I am sure that we will be able to mitigate their discomfort in the coming days”.
Azzolina: those who close schools are deluded
In the meantime, however, the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina replied to the Apulian governor.
“Thinking of solving the problem by closing schools – the minister said – is a mere illusion. Because the boys go out, in fact they will go out more and risk getting infected. At school, on the other hand, there are not only security measures, but also protocols that allow control and tracking. Schools reopen as soon as possible“, Azzolina commented.
He sided with the minister the commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri who said: “it does not appear that the school makes the infections grow”.
In the meantime, however, the governors close them, starting with high school.
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