Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
H.or had many reactions to the interview in which Laura Boldrini talks about her fight against cancer. It’s normal: Boldrini is a loved and hated character.
As he also explains in his book, Better than yesterday (Piemme), the former Speaker of the House has chosen not to hide the disease because there is nothing to be ashamed of, because illness is part of life; and for once even the haters, with some execrable exceptions, have left her alone.
But the real protagonist of his story is the public health machine. It is the crowd, sometimes unnamed, of surgeons who face operations that last up to fifteen hours, of doctors who enter the hospital at 7 in the morning and leave at 10 in the evening, of physiotherapists, of nurses.
I have conjugated these nouns to the masculine; but not only are the majority of nurses and physiotherapists women, the majority of young doctors are also women.
“Better than yesterday” by Laura Boldrini (Piemme).
Those who call themselves outside the national community, those who fix their tax residence in Monte Carlo or Switzerland, those who take refuge in tax havens, those who found off-shore companies, here, these are worse than those who insult people on social media, who wish others to die.
Because, by not doing their duty as Italians, by not contributing to health costs (in full pandemic!), they condemn to death people who would have been saved with a more efficient health system.
Unfortunately, fiscal loyalty is not considered a virtue, and the tax evader in the common mentality is one who has made it. It is true that rules are needed: going abroad is not illegal; personally, however, I find it immoral, and after reading Laura Boldrini’s story I think it even more.
(As for the man who was hospitalized in his room, on the other side of a white sheet, and on his cell phone he let himself go to vulgarity like “she still sleeps, tonight I have to do everything”, the poor man did not know that from the other part of the white sheet was a woman determined to be respected …).
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