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July 24, 2020

The pandemic must not paralyze the world, but it is a shadow destined to last and vaccines are - or may be - the crucial weapon to face it. Word of Boris Johnson, who dismisses as "crazy" or "crazy" ("nuts" in English) all the followers of the verb no vax, promising vice versa blanket vaccinations in the United Kingdom.

Conceding himself to the cameras on his first anniversary as a Downing Street tenant, Premier Tory formalized his government's commitment to guarantee - pending the results of research on an ad hoc antidote against coronavirus, with the University of Oxford in pole position, but still many unknowns to be solved - the availability of preventive flu vaccines to 30 million Britons.

A strategy aimed at preventing the threat of a second, feared wave of contagions from Covid-19 from crossing with other infections in large numbers, putting pressure on hospitals and the National Health Service of Overseas (NHS). And that promises to expand the audience of vaccinated 'in law' in the coming months to all over 50 in the country (instead of over 65), as well as to secondary schoolchildren. Speaking of the pandemic, the premier then urged the use of the mask, now mandatory in England in the shops, while saying to trust "in the enormous common sense" of the compatriots rather than in social or police control. Not without warning that the cautions and the spacing measures will continue until "our collective effort does not bring down the contagions".

BoJo, personally infected with Covid and forced to a dramatic ICU hospitalization in April, encouraged "people to stop thinking about the virus as a danger that makes it impossible to do anything". And he insisted on the invitation to return to work, to resume the activities allowed by the recent lightening of the lockdown. But at the same time he has come back to warn that the pandemic is not defeated and that there will still be "hard times" before he can declare victory. While he has not shied away from criticism of the emergency management by acknowledging that he cannot easily apologize: "I apologize if I do not apologize," he joked with a calembour, however claiming the effort made to "learn from the mistakes".

Finally, there was no lack of reference to the impact of the obesity factor on Covid. "Normally I do not believe in a type of Nanny State policy", but on obesity - a phenomenon that has long recorded European record numbers in the Kingdom - a push appears appropriate, he said answering a question about his government's plan to prohibit or limit the advertising of "junk food", as well as to order supermarkets not to display it near the checkouts. A subject on which the British Prime Minister, who found himself between life and death before Easter, also due to his condition as an overweight patient, showed himself as a semi-repentant libertarian: "Frankly - he remarked, after evidently putting himself diet - lose weight is one of the ways to reduce Covid's risks. " The deniers of all tendencies are served.