Marco Iazzolino

Who to put on the respirator? The gloves? Aren’t the masks for everyone? Do we choose to intervene in the young or the elderly affected by the virus? A thousand questions are like these, and a thousand are the choices that people on the front line in the emergency are forced to make.

The temptation is to think that decisions are linear processes, but the emergency does not have linearity as one of its strong points. At home in quarantine, immersed in a forced coexistence, we have to decide what to buy and who to go out, where to go, what to cook. But what is the priority? What is the “pillar” around which to build our choices? This time of the virus could be useful to focus on what is important (but really) for me. We are children of a time when for many (though not for everyone), everything was accessible with a click or by calling the rider on duty until a few days ago. A newspaper in which choosing was not a problem, and today we find ourselves fragile to have to choose in a framework of limited resources and a space-time suddenly contracted and weak. Today’s gospel invites us to choose from deep listening to the meaning of our history (Shemà Israel) and a deep and authentic love for ourselves. Courage!