07/05/2020 - 21:53
- Clarín.com
- Society
Not a week has passed since the tightening of the quarantine by coronavirus in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and the result on whether the measure works is still uncertain. Buenos Aires health minister Fernán Quirós, acknowledged that people "find it difficult to accompany" such a long isolation.
"We are making the greatest efforts, and all that the State can contribute to make this quarantine very short and of high impact. The quarantine is being much longer than all of reality can sustain, not only the economic one, but mental health, family, bonding and non-COVID issues, "said the minister.
In statements to Radio Miter, the Buenosairean official assured that from the City government they are seeing "a very complete fulfillment of the Buenosairean citizenship with what we have proposed to him as a measure of the period that touches us".
"It is an extremely long quarantine, of course people do not hold it anymore and we are doing everything necessary so that from 18 we can change it. Now the road is quite worn out and people find it difficult to accompany", Quirós explained.
The head of the Buenos Aires health portfolio said that transportation or circulation has two impacts. "One is that if people circulate they are interacting with other people and the dispersion is greater. And the other is in public transport, particularly, especially in the subway, which is the most contagious, the truth is that the results are appropriate for the periods we are going through, "he was excited.
"If you make the wrong decisions, the cost is enormous. And they apply in many dimensions, so you have to have a balance, take measures based on concrete results not only from Argentina, but also what is happening in another part of the world. Also listening to people and understanding social humor, "emphasized the official.
And he added: "In pandemics, a good part of the result of social care depends on the community and what it is willing to do. There it is very important to show the data in full transparency to the people and that the link between the people and the government let me build a road week after week. Now the road is quite worn out and people are having trouble accompanying it. "
Regarding the economic crisis that triggered the pandemic, Quirós explained that it is an "essential element" of health. "Health is an integral concept. There is a certain tendency in society to associate it with the care of an illness and the care of the doctor, but it is an integral concept of people's well-being. The economy is an essential element. There is a direct relationship between the socioeconomic and the community situation, "he estimated.
"For us, health and economy are part of a whole. The question here is: How much effort do we make on one side and the other in the midst of a pandemic that is as catastrophic as this? This is a destructive pandemic that hit many people and it is normal that we hit. This is not simplify in "A" or "B" and black or white. The important thing is how we are going to pass this together . If we are going to take care of all the dimensions together and each one is going to think in the other, or we are going to think that each one is going to save himself, "Quirós continued.
Lastly, he estimated that when we can get out of this most acute stage of the health crisis, "we are going to have to rebuild the space of people's health, the care of diseases, but also the economy and the reconstruction of our production model ". "I have no doubt that this is just beginning and you have to think about how to get out in all dimensions," he concluded.