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In the 50 years that Guillermina González has lived in the San Roque neighborhood, downtown Barranquilla, I have never had such serious problems with neighbors like the ones you’re dealing with right now due to the coronavirus.
A member of the González family, who tested positive for covid-19 and who he has been hospitalized for 10 daysIt is the cause for several residents on the block to declare them as carriers of the virus and a risk to public health in the entire neighborhood.
The situation has become so delicate that no one comes to the González house, due to the way they are being stigmatized by their neighbors, who warn everyone who comes to the house that they can be infected with the coronavirus.
And if any of the Gonzálezes goes to the corner store to buy something, they don’t dispatch him either, and the people they find leave. And they took away even the greeting.
Neither the addresses want to come and bring us anything, they have scared them from our house, because these gentlemen have been in charge of watering everywhere that we all have coronaviruses
“Not even the homes want to come and bring us anything, they have scared them away from our house, because these gentlemen have been in charge of watering everywhere that we all have coronaviruses,” says the woman in anguish, who flatly denies that they are infected.
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Guillermina, 57 years old, who claims to have undergone surgery five times, the last for appendicitis, which was complicated, and is also diabetic, says that She is suffering a lot because those neighbors have taken care that the home does not arrive with the medications.
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“I have a brother who cannot walk because of elephantiasis and osteomyelitis, who needs medication and treatment from a nurse, who has not been allowed to come home either,” says Guillermina.
The markets that are being delivered by the Mayor’s Office and some businessmen from Barranquilla also did not reach Guillermina’s family.
In the González house, 8 people live, among those two minors, who have not been at the door for more than two weeks for fear of suffering a violent attack from the people who are pointing out that they are contaminated. “One of the children was in the corner and the other boys almost mistreated him. From that day on, he doesn’t even look out the door.”
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Guillermina explains that the one in the clinic is her brother-in-law. The wife and daughter were tested and they came out negative. “We also want them to practice it to clear all these doubts, we are tired of not being able to even order a banana from the store, because they don’t bring it to us ”.
This week, the vendors of fruit and vegetables that have spent their whole lives on this street in the San Roque neighborhood, in the heart of downtown Barranquilla, in their mule carts offering door-to-door products, changed their sidewalk. To Guillermina’s sadness, she stayed behind the fence with the banknote rolled up in her hand, wanting to buy a green banana. “What do I call him if he is not going to come, he doesn’t see that they have already told them that we have coronaviruses here.
LEONARDO HERRERA DELGANS
Correspondent for EL TIEMPO Barranquilla
On Twitter: @ leoher69
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