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After the letter of the "infection", intellectuals and scientists came out to support the quarantine

2020-06-01T18:53:45.004Z


Among the signatories of the counter-letter are Adrián Paenza, Felipe Pigna, Dora Barrancos, Ricardo Forster and the director of investigations of the Guest Foundation, Omar Sued.


05/31/2020 - 20:06

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

After the letter against the national government, which they call creating an "infection," came the response from other intellectuals, scientists, and teachers who came out to endorse the quarantine tool in a letter titled "An Additional Effort to Save Lives."

"The early declaration of Compulsory Preventive Social Isolation in Argentina achieved positive results : it not only allowed multiplying the health system's capacity for care and progress in providing the necessary tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19, but also reduced the daily cases to practically zero in 21 of the 24 territorial divisions of the country ".

Thus begins the text signed, among others, by the mathematician and writer Adrián Paenza ; the historian Felipe Pigna ; the priest Francisco "Paco" Olivera; the researcher Dora Barrancos ; the research director of the Guest Foundation, Omar Sued, and the philosopher and former official, Ricardo Forster.

For the signatories (more than 11,000 signatures report), Argentina is the one that obtained "better results" in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other Latin American countries with large metropolises. "

"Extending a quarantine only partially effective in the AMBA leads a part of society to doubt its usefulness and demand its end. However, quarantine is an exceptional measure that, without vaccines or effective pharmacological treatments for covid19, is It is a key tool when the situation requires it, "they evaluated.

Likewise, after expressing their concern about the rate of infection in the AMBA, they also stated that "some neighborhoods of CABA, in the center and south of the City, with doubling times of less than 6 days, are of particular concern." They add: "These data indicate that if we cannot urgently decrease the rate of contagion, saturation of intensive care beds is imminent."

In this sense, in the text they evaluated that the countries that refused to use this quarantine tool, such as Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, "today live a dramatic reality and the deaths seem to have no end."

For these reasons, they conclude, they considered that "today, more than ever, it is necessary to maximize the effectiveness of quarantine in the AMBA and the Great Resistance" and to this end they ask "that three responsibilities be combined: political, civil and journalistic".

" Democracy is in danger. Possibly as it has not been since 1983. The balance between the powers has been dismantled," an open letter had been alerted 48 hours earlier, prompting constitutional lawyers, intellectuals, scientists and teachers to criticize the reaction and the maneuvers. of the national government against the crisis that installed the coronavirus.

In the letter, which began to circulate on social networks, it was alerted that the "government found in the 'infection' an effective story legitimized by experts" and therefore they demand that President Alberto Fernández be "respectful of the law."

Source: clarin

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