“There can be recovery and support for growth if there isn't one completion of immunization”. Carlo Messina, CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo said it on Saturday, on the sidelines of the delivery of the Truffle of the Year to the Ferrero Foundation.
“We have to do everything to avoid finding ourselves in the position of having a lockdown – he added – we must make this virus circulate little and ensure that each of us can have as normal a life as possible. It seems to me that today we have no alternative but to manage the pandemic with great attention to vaccination campaigns, and to ensure that each of us does not represent a danger to the others".
According to Messina, therefore, "the priority today is to get out of the pandemic: there is no doubt that if we fail to stop the progressive waves of infections we will not have the possibility of completing the economic recovery, and this will generate extremely difficult conditions for the Italian families. It will increase poverty and make the path of each of us and the future of Italy more problematic”.
Returning to conditions "in which closures can be determined from the point of view of the real economy means returning to uncertainty, the blockage of consumption and the decline in GDP while poverty will accelerate again – said the number one of Intesa Sanpaolo – Today in our country we already have a problem of people in poverty which I believe should be the absolute priority of any government”.
One of the fundamentals to work on “is certainly growth but aimed at recovering poverty – concluded Messina – They are there five million poor people and we worry about the demonstrations of a thousand people who do not want to get vaccinated or the green pass: let's imagine what it would mean if those who have difficulty eating began to make it an issue of social contrast by looking for opportunities to take the protest to the streets ".
