When crises occur, whether environmental or pandemic like COVID-19, some are affected more intensely and aggressively than others, simply because they are weaker in the face of tensions and shocks. And the critical thing here is the fragmentation or absence of any form. of formal social coverage that can supply preparation or some other in addition to support. This is a truth that the rural poor in countries like Guatemala know very well, a life lived in very precarious situations, day after day the government is absent, and where survival itself is compromised. People with disabilities in rural areas are seriously affected by COVID-19 in Guatemala, although few report on it in Guatemala. Here are some points:
Social distancing means they are now absolutely stripped of the little care they had access to, adding that provided through families and communities. Charitable acts of kindness are occasionally what allow other people to live in extreme poverty. The box reports highlight how, in the absence of any formal help, the removal of members from the circle of relatives affects the maximum fundamental desires, adding food intake and help for fundamental physiological desires (e. g. , going to the bathroom) to higher-order desires, adding mental and emotional desires. For those living in more remote areas, loneliness sets in, making it difficult to access critical facilities, even as shipments become scarcer and less frequent. Dramatic pains, pressure ulcers, and non-drug deficiencies become serious realities.
Informational limbo: Rural spaces are out of sight and out of mind. Lately there is a sense of serious confusion in remote rural areas and a lot of speculation, especially due to large data gaps. The government has not taken steps to report thoroughly and make this data available. Since circles of family and friends (the only source of data) in remote rural spaces are also remote, other people with disabilities are gradually being sidelined. There is also a lack of preparation and scarce data among formal service providers. as hospitals, adding how to prepare and make sure your facilities are available to other people with disabilities. Considering how other people with disabilities are perceived in a disabled Guatemala, adding in the medical sector, this is really very worrying.
Informal painting is what feeds: however, that is now broken. From occasional agricultural painting to home painting for a low wage (ultra-exploitative), through weaving, selling certain products in markets, or begging or begging in the streets, c is what helps keep life alive. deficient. The other poor also have to travel or walk long distances to reach places where they can earn money. In general, livelihoods are complicated and dependent on physical energy, which means that the livelihoods of many other people with disabilities are fragmented or destroyed after the onset of disability. COVID-19 has profoundly affected casual livelihoods in all areas, especially families of other people with disabilities. This, in turn, affects everything from how and how much other people with disabilities eat to the physical care and medications they can buy. Informal painting means employers have no legal responsibility to painters, which means whole families are caught in a downward spiral of distrust and deprivation.
Rural Guatemalans are no strangers to poverty, deep inequality and a life lived in dramatic deprivation, not to mention the racism indigenous people face. However, COVID-19 has carried out a serious attack on the families and communities that provide the means of survival, which in the end whether the disabled other people who count on it live or die.
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