Covid, Bassetti: “No more restrictions at school”

“In this first week of school, the boys ‘smiles finally came back. After 2 years in which they had practically not seen their peers’ faces during lessons, I saw my children happy to go back to a normal school, which is made of education but also of sociability. And sociability is also made of being able to see the face, the lips of the speaker, the smile “. With satisfaction Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, comments on the beginning of the school year to Adnkronos Salute without the obligation to wear masks. “We are welcome to go back to normal and no longer try to think about wearing masks or other restrictions at school”. “We should have arrived much earlier – he says – instead we were the last in Europe to drop this obligation, and still some say that it should not have been done. Instead I think that we must be very careful today to put restrictions in the school: the last one of the last places in which to put restrictions, if anything we should think about it one day, is the school “, remarks Bassetti, recalling that” in Italy, on the other hand, it was the first place where action was taken: we closed the schools even before closing the ‘Italy, we put the compulsory mask before other places, we forced the students to go to Dad before starting smart working, the distancing of differentiated hours was imposed, recreation was taken away “. “The effects of all this are quite evident – underlines the infectious disease specialist – let’s think for example of the entrance test to Medicine: more than 50% of those who took the test did not reach the minimum level for admission. It is clear that the school in these two years has suffered terribly and our children have had a worse school. Parents have realized what it meant for the children to go to school with masks and other restrictions and not. can be happy with this return to normality. It is not an achievement, but an inevitable step: I have fought over it over the years and now I am happy with the results that the boys have achieved, also thanks to those who have spent on them “.