A final handshake with the promise of a civil confrontation elsewhere: the protagonists of the story are Cristiano Fazzini, leader of the Veneto No Green Pass movement, and the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco.
The meeting
It happened late yesterday afternoon, Saturday 4 May, outside the Sala della Carità in via San Francesco in Padua, where Pregliasco had been invited as part of the Galileo Festival to a meeting entitled “Superbugs: a new threat? ”. Covid, however, was the topic that interested the approximately 50 anti-vaxxers who waited for him upon his arrival to boo him and contest him: despite this, the medical director of the Galeazzi – Sant’Ambrogio Hospital in Milan allowed one of them to enter the room delegation, including Fazzini himself. Who seized the opportunity to ask him at the end of the meeting, during the question session, «social peace: earlier you spoke of a “noisy minority”, but you don’t think the time has come to pay damages to people that they are hurt by recognizing that there is a problem or do we want to continue to deny it? And why must the State and its citizens pay while the pharmaceutical companies share billions in profits?”.
Fabrizio Pregliasco
Pregliasco did not hold back, and replied: «The adverse events have been evaluated, to the point that even the vaccine leaflets are gradually updated with respect to potential problems linked to the onset of diseases, which I do not deny and have not never denied: the numbers in this sense are absolutely low, but it becomes difficult to explain it given that we are accused of having hidden them. Furthermore, on the compensation front, the institutions have always put their best foot forward, as well as during the pandemic when truly difficult and certainly unsatisfactory choices were made because it was necessary to mediate between three irreconcilable aspects: health, the economy and the psycho-psychological consequences. social. Furthermore, pharmaceutical companies may have shown some negative aspects, but I would not generalize. Finally, he is right when he talks about the desire for pacification and calming of a discussion which, however, I hope is not ideological, otherwise we are talking among deaf people.” Not only that: at the end of the event the virologist stopped with the demonstrators, speaking directly with Alessandro, a gentleman who told him that he “ended up in a wheelchair after the third vaccine with Guillain-Barré syndrome”.
