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Covid fiction in Italy is about as grotesque, superficial and waffling as it gets
The Sars-Cov 2 outbreak in Italy has taken on the features of a tragic farce or, if you prefer, a farcical tragedy. A comedy of the absurd worthy of a play, were it not for the thousands of deaths that bring the unwary spectator back down to earth. In Italy people continue to die of Covid, after more than two years of the pandemic and with an abundant 90 percent of the population vaccinated. They continue to wear the mask as if it were a fetish from which it is impossible to detach oneself. They continue to use a telluric amount of disinfectant gel. They continue to take control swabs, and the sick are still subjected to "acetaminophen and watchful waiting”, a combination that very often has and still does open wide the doors of intensive care units. If more and more of the vaccinated are getting sick, even seriously and to the point of death, then some alarm should go off in the minds of Italians who should wonder whether the course of action so far followed (imposed) by the government is really correct. Instead, none of this is happening and, on the contrary, those doctors who remain critical of the current governmental management are still being punished.After the suspension of Dr. Andrea Stramezzi, who was guilty of having successfully treated nearly 7,000 sick people, it was the turn of others to be reprimanded for behavior that they considered to be inalienably in accordance with the Hippocratic Oath. This rebuke can go to extreme consequences, as in the case of Dr. Barbara Balanzoni, who has even had herself disbarred from the Medical Association unless a higher court rules in her favor, which has yet to happen.A physician, a professional, indomitable as she appears on her social media, Dr. Balanzoni accompanies her Hippocratic oath with that of a lieutenant in the Italian Army Medical Corps. Many people find it difficult to keep their word or a simple oath, just one, and prefer to wriggle out of obligations and commitments, flushing their consciences with convenient excuses. Here Dr. Balanzoni must face the duties and consequences of no less than two oaths, different from each other but linked by the same inalienable need for loyalty and sacrifice. Her respectable resume should have turned her, for example, into a candidate for the role of Minister of Health and a difficult one to turn down. Instead, she ended up first in the indictment bench and then sentenced to a punishment that others of her colleagues, corrupt or worse, did not have so easily, if at all. Something does not add up in the story of Barbara Balanzoni. Just as, on the other hand, something does not add up in the Covid pandemic. So, I reached out to Dr. Balanzoni to ask her some questions and get some answers that might shake even the most inattentive. Can you tell us how your disbarment came about? It is not a very common occurrence in Italy… My disbarment was arrived at by express political will since the complaint to the Order (the latest in a long series) was forwarded directly by the Ministry of Health asking the Order for investigations into my unspecified anti-scientific disclosure. To date it is not known what exactly I have been accused of.
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