Eduardo Paladini
07/18/2020 - 17:44
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The easing of the coronavirus quarantine as of this Monday, despite the rise in infections in the AMBA, but also in several provinces of the interior of the country, has whitewashed a situation that officials prefer to avoid in public: certain laxity of a sector of the population to abide by a mandatory isolation that is already ending its fourth month. A new national study, by the consulting firm Management & Fit , measured part of this relaxation: 87.6% of those surveyed admitted having visited friends and / or family despite the confinement; in some cases to greet them, in others directly to get together to eat.
The poll that Clarín agreed to included a survey of 1,200 cases online, collected between July 11 and 13, with a +/- 2.8% margin of error.
In the 13-page report there are two specific questions about isolation. The first: "Do you believe that the AMBA people complied with the strict quarantine?" . 53% responded between "little" (34.6%) and "nothing" (18.4%); against 39.8% who chose between "something" (23.7%) and "a lot" (16.1%). Completed 7.2% of "don't know / don't answer".
This disbelief in the fulfillment of the other had already appeared in other studies . It is different when people are asked if they in particular are abiding by the rules. Predictable, most answer yes.
National Management & Fit survey. July 2020.
In this case, Management & Fit raised something more specific: "Thinking about your family or friends, can you tell me if you are in this time of quarantine ...?" . She offered four variants of responses: "She has seen them to greet them" scored with 39.1%; followed by "He has visited them" (27.2%), "He has shared meals" (21.3%) and "He has never seen or visited them" (12.4%). Summary: 87.6% admit that they had contact with family and / or friends .
This situation does not necessarily imply that everyone has broken the rules. There are special cases, in general and in particular according to the region, where visits are allowed. For example, from older adults. But regardless of whether the contact was inside, outside or bordering on the norm, what the survey shows is there is widespread circulation .
National Management & Fit survey. July 2020.
Clarín told this Friday how mobility in Capital and Conurbano (the AMBA) had dropped very few percentage points between the quarantine stage that ends this weekend and the previous one, despite restrictions and controls having been adjusted.
With the openings announced now - which in many cases had already been in effect for a period - both Buenos Aires-born Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Buenos Aires-born Axel Kicillof seem to be accompanying with rules a situation that has already been imposed.
More confidence in health than in the economy
The survey by the consulting firm led by Mariel Fornoni also addresses the health vs. duel. economy, but not from the personal concern of the respondents, but from the evaluation of the government teams. And the answers come to a strikingly inverted result.
- "What confidence did you generate in the way in which the health teams managed the advance of COVID 19 in this new period of strict quarantine?" Asked M&F: 54.7% ranged from "very much" (33, 1%) and "somewhat" (21.6%) of confidence . Against 38.9% who chose between "little" (26.6%) and "nothing" (12.3%).
- "What confidence did you generate in the way in which the economic teams managed aid and incentives in this new period of strict quarantine?" Was the second question: in this case, 55.8% said "little". (20.2%) and "nothing" (35.6%) of confidence; and 38.3% chose "something" (22.7%) or "a lot" (15.6%).