Piparo (Sistina): “Masks in the theater, perhaps safer discos for the Government …”

“Maybe they wanted to divert a little audience to the discos, thinking that there without masks there is no contagion and in the theater instead you take Covid …”. And the ironic response with which Massimo Romeo Piparo, artistic director of the Sistina in Rome and president of the ATP, the Association of private theaters, responds to AdnKronos on the government’s decision to exclude the use of masks in most places closed, but to keep them in theaters and cinemas. “What can I say? By now we are used to everything, unfortunately. We have become accustomed to every novelty and this is the most serious thing. It will mean that even the last month of the theatrical season we will do it by forcing the spectators to wear all the time the masks “, comments Piparo. “They are rules made by reasoning not from a scientific point of view but only from an economic point of view; but then the economic discourse must also apply to cinemas and theaters”. Observes Piparo: “I would also agree on the maintenance of the masks, as a measure of prudence: but what I cannot agree is having removed them practically in all the other places. The spectator perhaps goes to the bar before entering the theater. or at the restaurant, or the night before he was in the disco … and then he becomes infected at the theater? – asks the artistic director of the Sistina – Glad that there are still masks in the theater but they had to be left in the other areas as well, given the ‘de facto abolition of the green pass “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)