Italian Organization’s International Call to Action: Demand Access to Data Used for Government Mandates Regarding Covid-19

International appeal: ask your governments to view the technical and scientific data of the Covid-19 emergency!

by CORVELVA Staff
August 5, 2020

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We are appealing to all the associations (and citizens) whose Countries have experienced and are still experiencing restrictive measures like Italy. We need to share with you an unacceptable fact and we want to ask other citizens in the world to take action in order to shed light on the many shadows that envelop the emergency situation we are facing.

We are an Italian association ¹ fighting for freedom of choice in the vaccination and therapeutic fields since 1993, but we are here today speaking also to those associations that do not totally agree with our way of thinking and living freedom.

Italian people have gone through the Covid-19 pandemic strictly following the rules imposed. Italian people have complied with the Government’s restrictions and provisions but even so, for months we have been watching tv programs showing drones, helicopters and law enforcement vessels chasing and identifying individual citizens walking deserted streets or empty beaches,^2-3-4-5-6-7

and even law enforcement precluding religious services. Media have been pointing the finger at the runners, ordinary citizens going only for a run, suddenly becoming terrible plague spreaders and primary cause of infection, according to the mainstream media narrative.

We are silently accepting our Country’s economy to fall apart and we should at least expect that our Government, responsible for the imposed restrictive measures, would clarify and be willing to provide evidence and answers to the people.

Every single choice the Italian Government made to manage the Covid-19 emergency, was and will be based on the opinion of the Technical-Scientific Committee (CTS). A small number of people called the shots of the Government Agenda, from the forms and lasting of Lockdown, to the masks, the social distancing, and any regulatory act always issued “having consulted the CTS”.

Recently, three lawyers, being part of a foundation, decided to file a FOIA (request for access to documents), specifically requesting to view the minutes of the Scientific Technical Committee of February 18th, March 1st, 7th, 30th and April 9th. The data and opinions expressed and collected in these minutes are basically the reason, the drive, the foundation for the Government to have issued every act relating to the Covid-19 emergency management.
After the request has been rejected at first instance, the lawyers have been forced to apply to a Court. On July 23rd, 2020 the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio (TAR) had ruled in favor of the publication of the documents by August 21st at the latest.8

And here is the shocking and for us unacceptable fact: the Italian Government, through the State’s attorney, on July 31st opposed ¹⁰

On August, 5th 2020, we learned from journalistic sources ¹¹and from the same lawyers who had requested access to the documents, ¹² that the Italian government will publish these minutes, but the question remains unchanged:

Why did not it make immediately transparent what really happened in the emergency? If the Italian government acted on expert opinions, why did it oppose the publication of the data? What are the contents of these reports that should cause damage? Why would damage to public order and security even be expected?

In the next days we will inform everyone about the content of these minutes, verifying together with many experts who work alongside us, if the emergency policies have been correctly undertaken, if they were fair or exaggerated or disproportionate, up to at least the end of the State of Emergency, but the fact that the Government has opposed the publication of documents that should be public, worries us greatly. We remind that the news of the declassification of the minutes, if analyzed with intellectual honesty, show that it took place solely for political conflicts with the parliamentary opposition, not for true listening and transparency towards citizenship.

All of you reading us, both ordinary citizens and associations, have at your disposal a tool created for this kind of action, the Freedom of Information Act, ¹³ that is the law granting freedom of information and public access to data held by national governments!

Anyone, by a legal team but also independently, may submit along the same lines a request for access to the documents aimed at verifying what are the conditions, the minutes, the documents that the various Countries have based on to pass decrees and various acts in the context of the Covid-19 emergency, obviously in relation to those acts that brought a counterpart in economic and limitations of personal freedoms terms. In our opinion, this is necessary, not because of a priori mistrust but because of a proper civic sense and supervisory task, democratically exercised with the tools available which exist precisely for these purposes.

If you believe that there are the conditions to raise legitimate doubts in the management of Covid-19 and if your Government has not made public all the data, opinions and “advice” of the experts dedicated to the Covid-19 emergency that have led to pass laws with inevitable strong impact on citizens’ lives in the short and long term, request in first person to make the original data and reports visionable!

Repropose this action in various countries increases the possibility of shedding light on the management of this emergency situation linked to Covid-19, where the Italian government has instead vetoed this possibility, at least for now.

We are here to support all interested parties, according to our capabilities we will provide further clarification and our help for better understanding how the request has been put forward and how the Government has decided to reply.

A coordinated action is important and useful above all because it gives a clear sign of the people’s need and will have answers, and it also increases the chances to obtain data and answers in this regard.

Thanks to everybody,
Corvelva Staff

Document undersigned by:

Sara Cunial, Member of Parliament
Ivan Catalano, President of COSMI, former MP and former Vice President of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry “Depleted Uranium”
Davide Barillari, Regional Councillor of Lazio and President of the Commission Pluralism of Information
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CliVa Tuscany
Hummingbird Puglia
Free aware citizens of Puglia
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GruppiUniti.it
Parents of the Lombardia no obligation
VacciPiano Sicilia… and many others

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The CORVELVA association – Veneto Regional Coordination for the Freedom of Vaccinations – was born in 1993 and has as its principle the free choice of vaccinations. They offer support for families in all aspects of freedom of choice and care.

Corvelva Mission: 1) Freedom — Free choice of vaccinations. 2) Information — Information on the procedure for compensation for damages suffered as a result of vaccination practices. 3) Scientific research — The principle of information on the entire scientific research relating to the effectiveness of vaccinations and possible adverse reactions of the same.