Controversy on the amount of the fine, from 100 euros one-off, for all those (workers and non-workers) who will not comply with the vaccine obligation for those over 50 starting from February 1, 2022.
"One hundred euro is the price of our health. Of our lives - wrote Martina Benedetti, the operator of the Marina di Massa hospital who on 12 March 2020 published the photo of her face marked by the mask -. Of the sacrifices we make as two years, especially we health workers (unique, among other things, for which there is a real vaccination obligation). For the umpteenth time we will be the ones to clean up all the mud deriving from the absence of strong and courageous decisions. Absurd choices that will fall on our backs already burdened by two years of fatigue ".
"Giving those who evade the vaccination obligation a one-off fine (100 euros) roughly equivalent to two parking bans (41 euros x 2) makes the obligation itself a grotesque antic. serious. I hope I have misunderstood ", wrote the virologist Roberto Burioni in a tweet.
The envisaged sanction "is not enough and is ineffective", affirms the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo) Filippo Anelli, underlining that "the credibility of the state is at stake". "If we are to expect an answer on the basis of this sanction, I believe that we are not going anywhere. The approved decree - he notes - is important because it has an educational effect, but we need much more than a sanction of 100 euros compared to those who decide not to comply with a legal obligation ".
We need, says Anelli, "much heavier mechanisms and sanctions and we need to create a monitoring network that allows compliance with the law. I think paying 100 euros will not be a deterrent, given that you often spend even more to swab swabs. The truth the problem is the credibility of the state: if a law is not only pro forma, it is necessary to provide adequate tools to enforce it ".
CLARIFICATION - In the evening, however, the clarification of the government arrives: the one-off penalty of 100 euros, sources from Palazzo Chigi specify, is not the only one provided for those over 50 who are not vaccinated. For workers over the age of 50 who do not have a Super Green pass, there is suspension from work without a salary and a fine from 600 to 1,500 euros in the case of access to the workplace in violation of the obligation (penalty doubled if the violation is repeated). In addition, the sanctions from 400 to 1,000 euros already provided for all citizens, regardless of age, are valid in case of violation of the obligation of Green pass or Super Green pass for access to services, activities, means of transport.
(Unioneonline / D)