Ragioniamoci Sopra by Luca Zaia

 It is a pleasant reading the book by Luca Zaia

Ragioniamoci Sopra. 

Zaia is the governor of Region Veneto: yes, the region where there are Venice, Padoa, Verona for my foreign readers.

I am personally affectionated to Veneto because our origins are not Umbrians: we were citizens of Veneto. We went away, tells the story told by our ancestors, during a pestilence more than 800 years ago, colonizing this central part of Italy, more protected and less exposed to these immense problems.

Speaking of the book, Luca Zaia tells that, what happened with Covid, was a sorta of Big Bang, a deflagration in a moment where the region experienced other heavy problems. 

He can't sleep more than 2-3 hours per night. He has been one of the strongest and firms italian governors.

While in Lombardia, Codogno, they tried to understand where Mattia Maestri had caught Covid, Covid in the while had also reached a little town called Vò Euganeo, in Veneto causing the first victim in Adriano Trevisan a peaceful guy of 76 years, to the hospital for treating a nasty penumonia unresponsive to antibiotics for ten days. 

When they did the test, discovering Covid, it was panic! Everyone understood that that one would have been a great calamity. 

At first no one knew exactly what it was necessary to do, and how to interact with the new pestilence, admits, Zaia: he remembers some meetings of the first hour with collaborators that later wouldn't never been done anymore in presence because with too many people. 

Zaia  anyway decided to take all the powers in his hands, taking strong decisions, creating new places for potential people affected by Covid-19, destinating an hospital to the cure of Covid-19 patients because a modern structure. He blocked the Carnival of Venice, that it is one of the most beautiful representations known in the entire world: but, as admits Zaia, it couldn't be possible to do differently. Venice started to be affected by Covid, although, during that first wave, the contagion was controlled. He decided to change operative city, leaving Venice, he created the famous bullettin of the late morning with new positives, dead ones, people in quarantine, not forgetting to add also new born children, a signal that, soon or late normality would be returned. 

Zaia tells also that, (let's also add that Veneto is a productive and rich region and so it was possible to use a lot of funds for contrasting the arrival of the pandemic), every expense has been clearly documented. Zaia writes that children sent him drawings, and money; when children spotted him along the street and donated something for the Covid, everyone, he said, received a regular receipt for the money received; also for just a euro donated. Being clear and transparent is important.

Zaia tells the story of his family describing also the characteristics of people from Veneto; amicable, compassionate with old ones, plenty of hospitality and healthy values, like also his political story that brought him to the guide of Veneto, treating at the end the thematic of autonomy.

Luca Zaia anticipating the central government ordinance has put Veneto in Yellow Zone two days ago. The war against Covid is not yet finished and this fourth wave deserves more and more attention than what we can think.

Highly recommended.

I than Marsilio for the physical copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori