JAKARTA – Covid-19 has only tested the fitness of many survivors, but also their relationships with their friends and neighbors.
Ayu, who works in a bank, said some of his co-workers seemed to him, and saw that some no longer asked him to have lunch with them. She felt like an outcast.
“Now I understand who my real friends are, (not) the other people who are only there in the smart times (but) the ones who stay with you in the smart and bad times,” he told the Jakarta Post.
Ayu’s joy is not unique.
A survey conducted through the LaporCovid-19 community, in collaboration with researchers from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Indonesia (UI), found that the stigma surrounding Covid-19 patients and survivors persisted six months after the epidemic.
The survey was conducted from 7 to 16 August and interviewed 181 respondents over the age of 18 who tested positive, recovered or were suspected of having Cvoid-19.
Half of the respondents were workers.
The study found that 55. 25% of respondents had become the target of gossip, 33. 15% had been rejected and 24. 86% had been treated as propagators or virus carriers.
After recovering, 4% of respondents said the public had treated him less well than the disease and 14% said he had been treated similarly poorly.
Ayu tried in mid-June after wasting his uncle on Covid-19.
He lost his aunt, who died in an intensive care unit.
Shortly after his check came back positive, the head of Ayu’s Neighborhood Unit (RT) shared documents revealing only his family’s Covid-19 states, but also their full names and identification numbers at a WhatsApp organization in the neighborhood.
Her cousin, who had also tested positive and stayed with her grandmother in a nearby neighborhood, accused her of breaking her isolation one night to spend a date with her boyfriend.
“The boy and woguy the neighbors saw that night were my mom and her brother,” she said. “They had to go to the hospital to signal the papers so that my aunt would be connected to a fan as soon as possible. “
Some experts have said that the stigma of Covid-19 in Indonesia is as severe as that of HIV/AIDS.
Stigma has exacerbated the country’s persistent struggles to contain, control and locate the virus, as many others are reluctant to determine its true status.
A significant proportion of cases in the country are thought to have been detected.
Ms. Siska Verawati of the Indonesian Center for Strategic Development Initiatives, which sought to enhance the network of fitness centres (Puskesmas) in Jakarta and Bandung, West Java, the epidemic, said that in some spaces the stigma came here from RT’s control and was addressed to themselves.
Amplified through incorrect information and an incomplete understanding of Covid-19, Siska said, the stigma had disrupted screening and testing efforts because others were cheating on their symptoms.
She said Covid-19’s ever-changing policies had created confusion.
“The staff at Puskesmas is, in fact, frontline fitness staff. But to break the chains of transmission, communities will have to come together and be on the front line to avoid stigma. There are clever stories that Covid-19 is our non-unusual enemy and that it’s real,” Siska said.
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