10/27/2020 8:25 PM
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Updated 10/27/2020 8:25 PM
The Washington Post, one of the most influential newspapers in the United States, published an article on Tuesday in which it crudely described the situation in Argentina and its health policies to combat the coronavirus.
He questioned the strict quarantine and claimed that
citizens have a "feeling of failure" over the measures.
The four journalists who wrote the note described situations of Argentines who lived these months of confinement with sacrifices, changes in habits and loss of purchasing power, in what was
"one of the longest quarantines in the world, which is still going on."
They tell the stories of a lawyer, a restaurant owner, and a Venezuelan immigrant, among others.
All with the same feeling, according to the American media, of
"so much sacrifice, for what?"
And complete on that idea: "The South American country has become
one of the most explosive breeding sites for the coronavirus.
At the beginning of August, less than 200,000 Argentines had contracted the virus. Since then, that number has risen to 1.1 million - 1 in 44 people - and 28,000 have died. "
In the article they highlight that Argentines took the disease seriously from the beginning and "trusted their leaders."
Review that the country quickly differentiated itself from Brazil, by not considering the pandemic as a small cold, or from the initial polarization of the United States.
And it did not have the inequality and poverty of India.
The Washington Post online note, entitled "Argentina blocked early and hard. Now cases explode."
"However,
Argentina is now along with all those countries, among the top five in the world in terms
of coronavirus
cases
," he warns.
"In the end, Argentina's efforts to control the virus were undone by a family group of enemies:
poverty, inequality, deficiencies in medical care and failures in tests,
but also, according to some analysts, due to the severity of the blockade. itself ", highlights the article and adds that all
the situation
led the country to a "feeling of failure."
Within the information it presents, the note states that the approval of Alberto Fernández
went from 80% to 37%
.
Quoting the political analyst Rosendo Fraga, he recalls that when the Government began the quarantine, it assured that
the peak of cases would be in April.
In the text they also affirm that more and more Argentines
make fun of the restriction measures
imposed by the Government and that while "the fatigue of quarantine and the explosion of coronavirus cases" cause an increase in intensive care rooms,
" people don't seem willing to go back to quarantine. "
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