Threats no vax, Viola immunologist under guard: “But I don’t change my mind”

Under escort for a week due to the No vax threats. The immunologist Antonella Viola, director of the Pediatric Research Institute Citta della Speranza in Padua and university professor of General Pathology, tells in an interview with Corriere della Sera the first seven days of being escorted after the threatening letter with attached bullet for spending in favor of vaccinations for children. Since that day, in fact, two carabinieri follow her everywhere while a police car controls the house. “I will never go on television to say that children should not be vaccinated because I would put their lives at risk and for me it is unacceptable. Threats will certainly not make me change my mind”, says Viola, who explains how “always being accompanied would have an impact on anyone’s life. On my own that I was very used to being alone, taking long walks on the embankment, or doing sports, shopping, going to work alone “. The first day with the escort for Viola she arrives back from vacation: “I got off the plane and my family separated there, they were doing the normal route, I got in the car with the carabinieri. It was a bad moment. , despite their kindness. One of the first days I asked: tell me your schedules and I adapt. And they: but teacher, it’s you who has to tell us yours! But I don’t feel like keeping them busy doing the same life as before “. But is the immunologist afraid? “No. It’s just that I scruple to sacrifice their time (of the escort, ed). Under normal conditions my Saturday would have been a walk downtown in the afternoon, maybe an aperitif and then somewhere for dinner. I really feel like letting them spend a day like this. Hoping that all this will last a short time … If it should be a long-term condition, I will review the reasoning “.” They told me it would last three months at the end of which they will re-evaluate everything. . I sincerely hope it will stop there “, continues the professor who, when asked about how much she fears physical aggression from one to 10, replies:” From one to ten, I say one. I don’t feel any anxiety on me. ‘my attitude being attentive to their “, that is,” I cannot help but notice the way they look at anyone who approaches me as a possible threat. And it makes me feel like I do the same reasoning by conditioned reflex. It is one of the reasons why for cu i give up taking walks to Padua, where moreover everyone knows me. Perhaps this is the worst thing. Certainly for me it is strange. “Do you ever think: who made me do it to expose myself?” I would say no. I have my job, I can stop talking through the media even today but I think it is important to do so, to tell the science and its methodology to as many people as possible. Because the acceptance and understanding of scientific principles is important. “” It is true – he continues – that there are no-vaxes but they should not be confused with the violent. The other day, to say, a lady no-vax wrote to me to tell me, in a very polite tone, that she is sorry for my limitations but that she too feels limited in her freedom and that she is afraid because scientists are human. and they can make mistakes ». The answer to the Corsera? “I wrote to you that what little freedom you have depends on the fact that so many other people have been vaccinated, because if everyone had done like you today we would be in a civil war. And I told her to trust us, as she trusts the driver. the train he takes or the engineer who built his house “, he concludes.