[This piece was first published on [Slow News](https://www.slow-news.com/).]
“This I realized all along:
reason is always
in the wrong.”Giorgio Caproni, Tutte le poesie (Milan, Garzanti 2013) [our translation]
Only a few months ago: despite information about the epidemics coming from China, Italy took too long to react. A few weeks later: despite news coming from Italy, the United States took too long to react. And so on…
How is it that the mountain of data and records elaborated by medical personnel, researchers, national and international agencies can barely be put into action – despite the fact that the products of science definitely shape our age and mind?… Read the rest