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Coronavirus in Argentina: in the debate over boys' outings, health and economy also intersect, but vice versa

2020-04-25T15:41:28.832Z


Governors prefer to loosen restrictions on the economy rather than allow children to return to the streets.


Ignacio Miri

04/25/2020 - 9:46

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

A third of Argentines are under the age of 19 . Until now, none of these children and youths have been included among the dozens of exceptions that compulsory social isolation has. Anyone who walks the streets can see that today that third of the country does not appear either - or appears in a minimal proportion, almost invisible - on short walks to shop for food or to walk pets, the two typical situations of release in recent weeks for those not included in the essential activities list.

That weight of the boys in the whole of the Argentine population makes the analysis of permission to leave their homes inescapable and, at the same time, is the data that further distances the possibility that they return to the streets .

The governments of the province of Buenos Aires and the Federal Capital, the districts that concentrate the most important outbreaks of coronavirus infection, have already warned that they prefer to leave the boys' outlets for later .

"If the boys go out, we must add the parents who accompany them and that is a lot of people all at once. Until now we have never made any opening of this magnitude and each exit moves the contagion rate, "an important Buenos Aires official told Clarín . This week, the contagion rate, a calculation that the City follows closely all the time, was 1.3 infected by each patient every five days . That same official also explained that, rather than allowing the boys to leave, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta prefers to free up some sectors that may move the economy of the City. Even that modification will be very gradual: for the next week, the Buenosairean chief only asked that the withdrawal of foods in the restaurants and bars be allowed, something that was already happening informally.

Something similar thinks Axel Kicillof, who ruled out the possibility of the boys moving again in the suburbs and in the other large cities of the province. The Buenosairean governor has intentions to reopen the private construction works , the offices related to those works, such as electricians, plumbers, carpenters or blacksmiths and shoe factories, some items of the textile and metalworking industry, always in municipalities with low or no circulation of the virus. In those districts with few infections, lawyers and accountants would also return to their studies .

Omar Perotti, in Santa Fe, and Juan Schiaretti, in Córdoba, have the same idea, the other heads of the list of most populated provinces.

This situation reveals that, in the case of boys, the priorities of health and the economy intersect again , but inversely than the one that appears in the general discussion on compulsory social isolation. The main argument of the doctors who raised the departure of the children is that, if they continue inside the houses, their mood and mental health could be affected. Something similar is raised by families who see the suffering of boys in constant and permanent confinement. On the contrary, the President and the governors who most mentioned the preeminence of health over the economic consequences, in this case maintain that they prefer to privilege some reactivation before opening the doors to boys.

Source: clarin

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