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For Professor Ricardo Quintero yes it is possible to achieve a social discipline in Barranquilla, as a starting point to commit to living with covid-19.
The reason, he assures, is simple, explaining that one hundred percent of Barranquilleros are losing with the city paralyzed and they need to return to their routines.
“Faced with this issue, we are all willing to collectively program our minds to learn to deal with it,” says the business administrator, marketing expert and researcher at the Sergio Arboleda University, who states that for this to be possible a model is needed educational.
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Quintero is proposing a plan that teaches Barranquilleros to live with the coronavirus in their daily routines, the same ones that due to carelessness or ignorance caused the crisis that the city experienced, and that kept it closed for five months. This is how he explains it in this interview.
What have you called this proposal?
We have called the proposal ‘learning to live with the virus’. We have said that, for this, the first thing is social commitment. When society understands that it must learn to live with the virus, we will have 50 percent of the road traveled. The other 50 percent of the way is looking for who teaches that citizen who wants to learn.
The new reality imposed by the virus forces us to change many habits on the street.
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Do teachers come in here?
Here are the experts in this art of teaching. Without universities or schools contributing their ‘know how’, this project is not viable. It is that they are the ones who know how to teach, it is what they have always done, it is what they are prepared for. Just an idea: What would happen if all the colleges and universities in Barranquilla included a chair on covid in the city and how should we take care of ourselves, even for half an hour a week?
How society are we prepared to live with the coronavirus?
No, so it is urgent to work on this. To think that only the technical measures of many tests, case tracing and so on will be enough, is utopian. Also, very expensive.
What should we do?
Two basic elements to learn to live with the virus: a commitment as a society to accept that we have gaps and we need to be taught to do so. This is: individual awareness that everything depends on me and a clear pedagogy on the part of those in charge of teaching us.
In the conditions we are in, does the reopening represent a risk?
I feel that we could be at greater risk for the regrowth to return, to the extent that Barranquilla society feels that the opening of the city and low figures are synonymous with the fact that the problem is over and consequently people let their guard down in self-care measures.
Don’t you think that people have already learned and know that self-care is key in this process?
I did a survey in June, applying a survey of 17 questions, which was answered by 594 inhabitants of the city. In it, 77% of those who responded to the survey said that they met all self-care measures. Now, by simple observation when I go out into the street I notice that in the daily use of the mask there are errors in handling by users, from there you ask how do I consume what I buy on the street? How do I disinfect it?
Social distancing and the use of a mask are the most frequent recommendations to avoid being infected with the coronavirus.
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What would it be necessary to teach people to live with the coronavirus?
Citizens will ask about specific situations in their routines so that they can explain what they should do and what they should not do to protect themselves. The experts in data analysis will identify of all the more than 35 thousand infected that we have had in the city, which have been the events that have generated the most infections and which have not to teach citizens where it is necessary to redouble efforts in care. Epidemiologists will generate early control alerts when they perceive a specific situation that is not being done well and the public is immediately informed.
What is the key to making this work?
When one reviews the experiences in countries that have succeeded in controlling the pandemic, one finds that in all of them they have societies that have culturally consolidated greater social discipline. Discipline is the main ingredient of commitment.
What does it take to put it into practice?
It only takes the will to work on this on the part of the Barranquilla Mayor’s Office, civil society and educational institutions. It turns out that there is already an instance that brings them together. It is the Atlantic State University Business Committee
Leonardo Herrera Delgans
EL TIEMPO correspondent
Barranquilla
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