Threats no vax, from Bassetti to Galli: “They are like terrorists”

Scientists targeted by the no-vax and no-Green pass. From Matteo Bassetti, now escorted by the police from home to hospital, to Massimo Galli, many doctors are threatened and attacked. Read also Matteo Bassetti “At this moment when I leave the house and go to the hospital, the Police accompany me and so on my return. But it is not important what the police are doing, which is commendable, but what the judiciary should do that is to put together all the complaints and work with the sole purpose of prosecuting these people as a criminal association or subversion movements. So no longer prosecute them as an offense to the person but for what they do against public order. important, it is necessary to intervene because these violence are at the same level as terrorist acts “, underlines to Adnkronos Salute Bassetti, director of the infectious disease clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, who yesterday reported that he had been chased and threatened by a no -vax.Massimo Galli “I received threats, I don’t talk about them, I never wanted to talk about them so as not to arouse the interests of emulators. n these realities. In summary, I had unpleasant attacks but I didn’t want to cure them too much “, Massimo Galli, professor of Infectious Diseases at the State University and primary at the Sacco of Milan, told Adnkronos Health, who adds:” To Professor Bassetti my full solidarity goes to the threats received from the no vax, as unacceptable as they are exemplary of the squalor of those who make them. utterances, especially last year, throughout the summer and most of the autumn. But that doesn’t change my closeness under these circumstances. I hope this doesn’t affect her daily life that much. Unfortunately, in certain contexts, characters have nested with connotations that go beyond the simple no vax aspect “. Massimo Andreoni” As a doctor every day I find myself in front of people to whom I have to say also things that they do not want to hear but for this I can not have qualms. So even for those who have doubts about vaccines, as scientists we cannot be silent and cannot stop talking. There is a bad climate, very heavy, and intimidation has increased but I don’t think there are alternatives: we must communicate correctly and say things as they are from a scientific point of view “. Massimo Andreoni points out this to Adnkronos Salute. , scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit) and head of Infectious Diseases at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome, commenting on the latest episodes of no-vax and no-Green pass attacks against journalists and the infectious specialist Matteo Bassetti . “At the moment I have no fears for my person”, Andreoni specifies “also because I have always had a professional behavior and as an objective always the scientific truth” but “it seems clear to me that the more the restrictions increase for those who are not vaccinated against Covid and the tension grows more “. But on one point, the infectious disease specialist is clear” we will not step back “. According to the scientific director of Simit,” it is up to politics to decide on the obligation to vaccinate ale, but I wonder why those who take to the streets to demonstrate against Covid vaccines asking for freedom then behave violently and prevent others from expressing their opinion? “. Italo Farnetani I no vax” are few but they make a lot of noise, because they are aggregated with each other, so much so that when, on my Facebook page or through the press, I make statements in support of the just obvious reasons and advantages of vaccines, complaints and criticisms reach me through social networks “. This is the testimony of the pediatrician Italo Farnetani, full professor of pediatrics at the Free Ludes University of Malta who warns “the greatest damage that no vax do is damage to human life and health, because – underlines Adnkronos Salute – their unmotivated and unfounded arguments create disorientation, leverage the anxieties of people who in the end do not get vaccinated and put their health and their lives at risk “. Farnetani, expressing his firm condemnation of the attacks and threats suffered by “journalists, doctors and any person who does not respect the opinions of others”, goes back to citing an example: “that of measles vaccination for children, who do not vax have reported, in an unfounded way, with the appearance of autism. This hoax has been running for more than 20 years and having not vaccinated so many children, for fear of their parents, some have died “, recalls. Silvio GarattiniI no vax , “they are exaggerating, it seems to have become an aggressive movement and it is not clear why. It is serious that people involved in public health must be attacked.” Pharmacologist Silvio Garattini, president of the IRCCS Mario Negri Institute, says this to Adnkronos Health, referring to the threats to the infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassett and others. Garattini admits that he has been in the crosshairs of ‘haters’ in the past. “I have received some insulting letters, nothing more,” he says. For Garattini, through the exclusion of violence, with the aggression against journalists and the infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti, “we want to create confusion and useless local guerrillas. It is an anomalous and very unpleasant situation”, he concluded.