She was a middle school teacher but her adamant stance against vaccines and permits to move freely meant she had to leave her job. Professor Roberta Salimbeni is not vaccinated and does not even undergo swabs. “I’m not changing my mind,” she said and was thus suspended, with a fine, by the “Gentile” institute in Fabriano where she taught Italian.
«The choice I made – he explained – is in line with my way of being. To keep myself I use the savings. Of course I have to make some sacrifices, but I’ll go ahead anyway ».
And if the vaccination obligation were to come into force? The teacher has no doubts: «The head teacher must send us the invitation to vaccination, we have time to show documentation that can be the vaccine or the deferral or the exemption. I think I will evaluate the options and make a decision that is close to everything I have done so far, “he replies.
Then he tells his story: «I had taken the time to get vaccinated because I had had Covid and I had antibodies. I had heard equivocal information on the effects of the vaccine, there was an unclear communication ».
Roberta Salimbeni has two children, aged 12 and 15 and they too are not vaccinated and do not have the green pass. «They share my choices and lead a normal life – explains the woman -, they go to school, they keep their distance, they wear a mask. Both of them do athletics which is an individual outdoor sport that can be practiced without a green pass and only when competing is a buffer “.