Agamben: In question is not so much health, but rather a life that is neither healthy nor sick, which, as such, as potentially pathogenic, can be deprived of its freedoms and subjected to prohibitions and controls of all kinds. All men are, in this sense, virtually asymptomatic sufferers. The only identity of this life fluctuating between disease and health is to be the recipient of the swab and vaccine, which, like the baptism of a new religion, they define the inverted figure of what was once called citizenship. Baptism is no longer indelible, but necessarily provisional and renewable, because the new citizen, who must always show the certificate, no longer has inalienable and undecidable rights, but only obligations that must be constantly decided and updated.
A country that decides to give up its own face, to cover the faces of its citizens with masks everywhere is, then, a country that has erased all political dimensions from itself. In this empty space, subjected at every moment to limitless control, individuals are now moving isolated from each other, who have lost the immediate and sensitive foundation of their community and can only exchange messages directed at a faceless name. To a name without a face anymore.