Pablo Sigal
05/18/2021 1:26 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/18/2021 1:33 PM
Living in the City of Buenos Aires in a pandemic has its costs and benefits.
One cost is, for example, that there are fewer vaccines against the
coronavirus
than in the province of Buenos Aires, where progress is faster with risk groups.
A benefit, that each restriction due to the
increase in Covid cases
is not based on “life versus death” Manichaeism, but rather seems to balance
costs and benefits.
As
Clarín
learned
, the head of Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta does not plan, at least in the next few days, to
close the Buenos Aires primary schools
.
Yes, on the other hand, there could be a chance to pass secondary schools to virtuality.
The next 48 hours are key to making this decision.
This Tuesday afternoon, Minister Fernán Quirós and Chief of Staff Felipe Miguel will attend the Casa Rosada to talk about the rise in infections and evaluate
the steps to follow.
The City is not as bad as at the peak of this second wave, but once again there is a
growing
trend in
infections
that the authorities link to the weather: it is getting colder and colder and people spend more time indoors.
The criterion that Rodríguez Larreta insists on is based on the fact that infections occur
more in adolescents
than in boys and that virtuality is more difficult to sustain among younger students.
His collaborators assure that the Buenos Aires chief remains convinced, by the data he handles, that
there are no more infections in
schools
than in the rest of society
.
But if the cases in general increase, the traps could also cover - consequently - educational activity.
"In the end, I was right," President Alberto Fernández said this Tuesday with a revengeful tone when the version began to circulate that the City is about to tighten restrictions, even in relation to face-to-face classes.
But in Buenos Aires territory there would be
several steps
in the middle before reaching an eventual instance of a total closure of schools.
One thing is for sure: Rodríguez Larreta is about to make important decisions for the three million porteños.
And at this stage he coined a key concept:
"sophisticate the restrictions
.
"
In other words, leaving the “all or nothing” logic and evaluating what to cut, for what and what health benefit the measure would bring.
As a balance in favor, the head of government believes that the fight "against the night" was won by dint of
controls
, although not respecting the limits that govern daytime activities.
An example is the bars that continue to serve
indoors
.
The City plans to adjust those controls in this fight, which is also against the cold.
When they ask him if the fact of not closing all face-to-face school activity is due to an
electoral strategy
, he assures that it is not: that his convictions coincide with those of the majority of porteños.
That is to say, he does not do it because that will earn him votes, but rather it is the other way around, that he returns votes because his criteria coincide with that of the majority of the neighbors.
The imminent decisions in the City would be, according to this roadmap, within foreseeable parameters, based on the four school scenarios stipulated by the Juntos por el Cambio administration.
The face-to-face classes -especially those of the younger ones- would be the last right that Rodríguez Larreta would be willing to “hand over” to the Covid, especially after having sifted his political fight in the Supreme Court and having received reason.
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