Coronavirus, 14th day from the first alarm. The days go by, the health emergency remains and economists inevitably speak of a new recession in arrival.
A few days ago I was asked how we have been behaving at MICROingranaggi in recent weeks.
To be honest we are not doing anything in particular to face the emergency at the moment. Perhaps so as not to tempt fate, hoping that the lockdowns will end this week and we can resume business at 100%.
And then also because I believe that at this precise moment in time, in which it is very difficult to make forecasts and where it is fairly likely (at least we hope) that the measures taken are disproportionate in relation to the actual level of criticality, in terms of the consequences and not the rapidity at which the disease is spreading, the best way forward is to
to live each day as it comes, trying to tackle the problems as they arise, possibly without underestimating but neither overestimating them.
And then we have to consider that for a manufacturing enterprise such as MICROingranaggi it is very difficult to adopt countermeasures within such short time-frames that are not counterproductive.
The government has launched a number of measures providing support to citizens and businesses affected by the emergency, but – as I have already said – they are unlikely to be sufficient if the situation does not return to normality fairly quickly.
As I wrote last week, I am convinced that in many other countries – for a purely political-health choice – they are not performing the tests carried out by Italy in recent days, and that it is for this reason that – unlike in other countries – the number of infected persons has exploded in Italy. Therefore, I repeat myself in saying that
it is really sad to see that there is a no political-health strategy shared at a European Union level.
So only time will tell and declare who was right and who has made the best choices.
I personally think that the virus will continue to spread rapidly, but perhaps – at a certain point – it will be “de-demonized” and almost associated with a normal influenza, and move slowly towards being unnoticed, until a death caused by pneumonia will be defined as it should be: death by pneumonia and not by Coronavirus.
