Emilia vexler
01/12/2021 15:28
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/12/2021 3:28 PM
Legal but immoral?
There is no word in English that will settle this question.
Neither in Spanish.
In lunfardo, the vaccination of Dora, the mother of the panelist Yanina Latorre, and that of the media lawyer Ana Rosenfeld, was summarized on social networks as a "fanned up".
An Argentine aviatrix and two free doses.
In Miami, after a report by the Telemundo network, the discomfort of the residents who have not yet agreed to the vaccine, the "vaccination tourism" was summarized in one sentence:
It`s not fair
(not fair).
Neither of the two women have a residence in the United States.
But they traveled to the country where they took the Capitol a few days ago and
Dora gave herself Pfizer
and the divorce expert
gave herself Moderna
.
In legal language, there is also talk of "legal vacuum", when that figure does not exist.
Be that as it may, after the scandal, (which is not binational because, for example, many tourists from Canada and Brazil will arrive these days in South Florida just to give themselves the doses), from the Argentine Foreign Ministry they clarify to
Clarín
that this "never was enabled ".
According to Miami-Dade County guidelines, the main priority for vaccination, after the elderly in nursing homes, the personnel who care for them and the Health workers
in the first line of battle
against the coronavirus, are the Miami County residents who are 65 or older.
That can be read, unambiguously, on the official Miami-Dade website.
It says "residents".
But did anyone notice that neither Dora nor Rosenfeld have an American residence?
No.
"The restrictions on who receives the vaccine always existed. It was never enabled (vaccination tourism). We regret the irresponsible attitudes of some fellow citizens," they say from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This clarification is added to an official "advice" of the Government, in the last hours: "Do not travel abroad", given the imminent reduction in flight frequencies.
The
Miami Herald
described these trips to receive the jab against the covid and the discomfort of those who are residents: "Those over 65 years of countries such as Argentina, Canada and Brazil are also accessing the vaccine portals of South Florida with the hope of getting an appointment to get vaccinated. For those who can afford the trip, South Florida has long been a mecca for medical tourism, particularly for citizens of Latin American countries with weakened health care infrastructures. "
Argentina fits perfectly in that group and the news is that the Health trip, now, is for the vaccine.
It has not yet been officially communicated if there will be further controls - such as showing the certificate of residence or the freen card - before those over 65 receive the dose in that county.
But the clear thing is that the attitude of traveling to get vaccinated is in the spotlight in the United States.
Although some South Florida health officials
encourage anyone who meets the
age
requirements
to take an appointment to get vaccinated from the car (as Dora did), whether or not tourists can get vaccinated depends, for now, on the hospitals.
This is so even when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made a distinction between temporary residents and "health tourists."
"We discourage people from coming to Florida just to get vaccinated," DeSantis said Monday at a news conference at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital.
“If they have a residence and they are not only flying to stay for a week or two, I totally agree with that (with the vaccination).
They are very different from someone who just shows up, says to get a jab and then they fly back somewhere;
obviously we are not going to do that, "he said.
Just as there is still a single word to describe this situation, the mayor of Miami, Francis Suárez, added a new one to the controversy: "It is disgusting that they come to receive the vaccine."
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