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“He has withdrawn it permanently”. The truth about the book of Hope

You may have wondered if and when the book’s Roberto Speranza will be published. It was supposed to hit the shelves last October 22, then something went wrong. Libraries have received it but they couldn’t sell it. At the beginning the distribution was suspended, there was talk of a postponement. Then? Then it happened that the topic has lost its centrality in the media and so it is not talked about much. But it does not seem true, as officially declared by the minister, that the volume will arrive on the shelves when he can travel around Italy to present it.

Brief history. On 22 October some faithful readers of Speranza are convinced that they can buy the latest work by the exponent of Leu. They go in library and they are banned: there is none. To the chroniclers of Report some booksellers assure that it was only postponed and the political controversy broke out immediately. These are the days of the resurgence of virus, of the new contagion curve, of the carefree summer chased away by a new wave of dead and infected. The publication of a book entitled “Because we will heal“Is a little out of place with the criticality of the moment: he talks about the pandemic as if it were already behind him, when it is not. Especially if someone raises his finger to point out that, perhaps, during a pandemic a minister should take care of managing the emergency and not pursuing literary ambitions.

The official version, provided to the media by the spokesperson Nicola De Duce, is this: “The book was designed to open a debate on the future of the national health service. And its proceeds go to the IRCSS network, the Higher Research Institute. It will be published when the Minister will have the time to devote to its presentation. Today all energy is involved in emergency management ”. Speranza also reiterated this in the face to the cameras de Hyenas in a mid-November report: “I don’t have time to present it,” he assures. As if to say: when everything is over, then you will have it.

Yet the information provided to bookstores seem to be of a completely different nature. The publishing house appears to have placed a definitive tombstone on the volume. At least in this version. October 21 – like ilGiornale.it it may show – in some points of sale an alert arrives with the title “Minister of Hope’s new sales block”. “We ask you – it says – to temporarily block the sale of book ‘Because we will heal’ of the minister Roberto Speranza. We will give you as soon as possible the new sale date ”. At first, apparently, we think of a few weeks of postponement: just to pass the storm of new infections. The new infected, however, between November and December continue to rise. Thus the editorial plans change again. On 2 November a new message: “It is announced that the book (…) published by Feltrinelli has been permanently withdrawn from sale and will be taken out of catalog. You can return the copies you have in stock already with the first useful return “. Why this back down?

The fact is that the minister’s narrative is light years away from the reality of the events experienced in the autumn-winter period. Although he writes that “the pandemic is not tamed” and that “we must not let our guard down”, from Speranza’s words we can see the desire to put behind us the tragic weeks of March, the 30 thousand deaths, the overflowing intensive care. The idea is that of look to the future, to a long-term reform of the National Health System. Quite right. But perhaps before imagining the day after tomorrow, the minister should have made sure to put security in the meantime. Speranza instead writes as if the worst was over. An example above all: “Today we are able to better keep the trend of infections under control – we read on page 136 – because we have intensified the number of tampons performed and we are progressively freeing ourselves from the dependence of machines that can work with only one type of reagent “. Does it seem like that? On the contrary, between October and November, the ISS will certify the tilt of the tracking system italiano.

We will blame the discos, the clubs, the holidays of the Italians. But Speranza himself knew that in the face of a “new possible pandemic” no one “will be able to say ‘I didn’t know'”. The second wave had been foreseen by many. What we would not have expected are the effects of the return of the Covid: still dead, still terapie intensive at risk, again closed schools. In the end, the encore of infections took everyone by surprise, even in the parts of Palazzo Chigi. The minister’s book is proof that, although still on the high seas, there was the idea in the government that the storm (economic and health) was now behind us. That we could start planning the future by managing the present in peace. Instead we found ourselves point and back: with one more book and 30 thousand fewer souls.

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2) continue: tomorrow we will let you read the first chapters

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