Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
TO home with Covid. After having avoided it for a long time, resorting to all sorts of precautions, I fell for it too.
I took it on vacation, when my defenses, to be able to fully enjoy the rest, were lowered for once, always reducing themselves to the protection of the mask in the most crowded places.
Staying closed at home with Covid is very different from staying there to avoid itas we did during the lockdowns.
Trivial, you will say. But I’m not talking about the objective fact that the awareness of being sick makes being in prison more acceptable than isolating oneself to avoid the simple possibility of getting infected.
Rather, I am referring to the feeling of being in dangerafter having long been the ones who fought it, avoiding it.
If you think about it, it is a fundamental reversal of roles from a psychological point of view. It is one thing to play defense against evil, it is quite another to be involuntarily part of its attack squadron.
Feeling deviously recruited by an evil force that systematically tries, through us, to realize the aim of annihilating us, or at least weakening us, thus obtaining its own survival, is something that struggles with the vision of ourselves. Of us as human beings, endowed with the capacity of discernment and free choice with respect to good and evil.
Thus, the choice of some asymptomatic patients not to isolate themselves is free, aware (and reckless), allowing the virus to take its course and voluntarily adhering to its call to arms.
But if Covid has no choice, being a war machine programmed to kill us, even more serious is the attitude of those who, being able to escape, deliberately follow its orders.
And if the very common justification of “having to work” may sound minimally acceptable, when the legal coverage of the disease is not there, the excuse of being bored alone at home sounds insulting. Yet I heard it with my own ears.
No, Covid hasn’t made us better, but it hasn’t made us worse either. He simply put us in front of ourselves for who we are: people free to choose between good and evil.
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