In the five remaining regions, dressed in yellow, the hunters practice (almost) normality. The swing, that is the continuous regional pilgrimage from one band to another, actually lasts from the beginning of November, depending on the periodic reclassification of the regions in relation to the epidemiological trend. Well, let's get rid of any misunderstanding. There is no rain on the need to protect public health, nor is it asked to renounce it by premising the importance of hunting to that of health. However, since it has always been unanimously maintained that the conditions necessary to keep Covid-19 under control are social distancing and the use of personal protective equipment, we have always wondered and we have always written and said, for months, what other activities, more than hunting, fishing, collecting mushrooms and truffles and the like, guarantee compliance with similar conditions?
The distancing from others, from inhabited centers, from aggregations of people (the accursed gatherings), is in the nature of hunting as well as of hunters. It seemed so banal that we didn't even have to point it out, but for the government it wasn't. In fact, since the publication of the FAQ on the website of the Presidency of the Council, now dating back to months ago and never changed, the interpretation on the practicability of hunting has been negative in the red band, semi-negative in the orange band (limitation to the municipality of residence only) and more liberal in the yellow band, with no restrictions on travel. Orientation also confirmed by the Prefectures to which some Regions had turned to obtain enlightenment. Without prejudice, of course, to the ever-present constraints on moving between territories of different regions, which we do not even delay to recall.
The orientation was therefore granite and unshakable. Someone among the usual suspects will object to the existence of forms of collective hunting, such as that of wild boar, which provide for the co-presence of many hunters: to remedy this, however, there have been Regions and associations that have issued behavioral guidelines for the components of the teams, precisely for minimize the opportunities for contact or in any case of excessive proximity between people, requiring the use of PPE. From many quarters, then, the striking juxtaposition between the impracticability of the hunting activity, even if experienced among fields, woods and mountains, and the possibility of entering shopping centers, which are the kingdom of multitudes and crowds, has often been highlighted. The economy, it is stated: yes, we answer, but does hunting have nothing to do with the economy? Are we sure?
Wouldn't equipment, clothing and footwear, weapons and ammunition, vehicles, dogs, live calls, various gadgets and much more contribute to the economy? And where do we put the taxes paid before the start of the season, aimed at being able to leave the house with the rifle in the sheath, non-existent for many other outdoor activities, carried out freely without permits, licenses and various payments, despite being much less harmless for fauna and environments than they seem? We have all seen city parks and gardens crossed by hundreds or thousands of people a day, legitimately invaded because a nice walk outdoors is good for the physical and mental health: but the distance? Could it be that a hunter in the fields with his dog or sitting in a hut in the hills or in the valley, were more heralds of contagion than those thousands of runners, runners, cyclists or families walking or running along the paths of urban parks?
No one who is free from prejudice could support it. Obviously, we do not have a political and administrative class free from prejudice. We do not find out today, but the terrible calamity of Covid-19 has given us yet another proof of it. To the economic damage, to the emotional damage caused by too many deaths, to the moral damage of the restriction of individual freedom, Italian hunters must also add the category damage further punished. The Italian hunters, however, have resisted, will resist and will react at the right moment, in the ways due to honest and correct citizens as they are. In the meantime, they thank those who loved them, guaranteeing that they will not be long in repaying their debt. Good luck to all! (ANUUMigrators).
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