Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 1:44:00 GMT -5
The world is fighting the pandemic caused by Covid-19. Stay at home!, cry out scientists from all corners, enlightened politicians from the left and right, conscious citizens of all ages, genders and creeds.
Until a vaccine against the coronavirus appears, the common enemy is perfectly identified: the crowding of people. Apart from lunatics, no one with a spark of sense thinks differently.
It is interesting, however, that, apart from this apparent obviousness, the topic raises many perplexities.
Take as an example the constant and fierce debate, between would-be holders of the monopoly on common sense, about whether our health authorities should simply be against or in favor of horizontal isolation or lockdown .
After all, does this radicalized clash of opinions make any sense in the 8,516,000 square kilometers of Brazil?
The question arises from the B2B Lead unique characteristics of our country, which has a continental territory, which is home to 5,570 municipalities distributed among 26 states, where extremely rich regions, which enjoy European levels of development, coexist with miserable areas, both urban and rural.
Considering the national contrasts relevant to confronting the pandemic, we cannot fail to also consider our demographic structure.
Note that, on the one hand, the country is rich in monumental metropolitan regions, such as Greater São Paulo, with 10% of the Brazilian population, which is close to 210 million inhabitants.
On the other hand, there are territories with very low demographic density, such as Roraima and its just over two inhabitants per square kilometer, in a territory with 224,299 square kilometers.
Data like these highlight the misunderstanding of the Manichaean debate between whether or not to be in favor of horizontal isolation or lockdown . We do need to discuss how to resolve the pandemic, according to the multiple local peculiarities of our country.
The appropriate solution can never ignore, depending on the case, the municipal, metropolitan, state, interstate, regional reality, without prejudice to serious guidelines, at a national level, under the responsibility of the Federal Union.
This creates another difficulty for the "stay at home" policy to gain a consensual and peaceful character, safe from controversy, as considered at the beginning of this text.
We have a president, 26 governors and 5,570 mayors, all endowed by the Constitution of the Republic with the power and duty to simultaneously issue decrees to combat the pandemic.
It is not necessary to speculate to realize that, as the country sets out to decompress from quarantine, we will experience, with exponential growth, federative conflicts of all kinds.