“I think it is important to carefully follow all the parties to report infiltrations of ‘closure’, which, in my opinion, would be sufficient reason to avoid voting for them. The same, of course, for the no-vax infiltrations, which are the other side of Covid pseudo-science “. Thus, in a post on Facebook, the virologist Guido Silvestri, a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, who analyzes the numbers of Covid-19 in Italy as the campaign for the political elections of 25 September 2022 gets underway.
“‘Chiusurismo’, in general and even more so in social media, has long been no longer a scientific theory – reflects Silvestri – but has turned into an ideological-political creed (and for this reason there will never be self-criticisms or admissions of error by certain ‘zealots’) It is not a secondary problem, as the ideologization / politicization of ‘closure’, now fully entered into the category of pseudo-science, can cause enormous economic, social, and psychological damage to the community , starting with the weakest and poorest (not to mention the damage caused to science itself) “, he warns.
“The summer wave of Covid caused by BA.5, the sub-variant of Omicron with very high transmissibility – highlights the virologist, attaching a graph with the epidemiological trend to the post – is regressing in a very evident way (and without any sign of overload hospital, today less than 300 total hospitalizations in intensive care in Italy) This decline represents a great mystery for the followers of the ‘closure’ creed, as it occurred in the absence of any ‘restriction’, and despite the Ba.5 virus is perfectly capable of infecting even multiple-vaccinated and / or previously infected subjects “. But here is the “solution to the mystery: the Ba.5 wave regressed with similar timing to the first wave, despite the virus at the time being much less contagious and there was a lockdown, due to the combined effects of summer and immunity, from vaccines and natural, which reduce the chances of contagion and the pool of susceptible ones, respectively “, Silvestri comments.