Milan, no-Covid vandalize work on vaccines and threaten street artist: we're coming for you

Bad misadventure for the well-known street artist Cristina Donati Meyer, who is very active on the Milanese scene with works that refer to current events and that Donati Meyer is used to hang in the streets of the Milanese capital. Covid deniers (the so-called no-Covid), proponents of the most absurd ideas about the origins of Covid-19, vandalized one of Donati Meyer’s latest works, the Santa Claus in the time of Covid, a poster that the artist had installed last Dec. 19 on the bridges of the Naviglio Grande. The artwork depicts a Santa Claus bearing gifts of anti-Covid vaccines: a wish for the vaccines to be administered as soon as possible, but also a reminder of how pharmaceutical companies have received considerable public funds to accelerate trials aimed at vaccine production, and thus to demand that the vaccine not only be “proprietary” but made available to the most fragile groups and peoples (including the less wealthy) free of charge.

“The big pharmaceutical companies,” Donati Meyer had declared, “have received immense public funds for their research, let them, therefore, make vaccines available to people, with the right profit but without speculation and abnormal or illicit profits.” The artwork was targeted by no-Covid, but they did not just turn on Donati Meyer’s posters: they also made heavy threats to her via social media (with phrases like “we’re coming to get you” and the like). The artist is now considering whether to file a complaint.

“Even in the face of potentially very good news about a vaccine,” the street artist comments, “intelligence deniers loudly scream about the globalist conspiracy. With these characters, humanity is truly at the end of the line.” It is therefore unfortunate that the hatred of the no-Covids, already widely poured out against doctors and health workers, has now also affected an artist. However, Donati Meyer has already announced works on the theme soon.

Pictured, left, the work before it was vandalized; right, Cristina Donati Meyer

Milan, no-Covid vandalize work on vaccines and threaten street artist: we're coming for you

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