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These include informal workers and those who do not have a stable job to wait patiently at home until preventive isolation is lifted in its entirety.
Pulzo spoke to several street vendors who were forced to go out again with their cars and their products to bring some money and food to their homes.
One of them was Carlos, who chose as a point the bridge of a Transmilenio station, where hundreds of citizens continue to pass to get to their jobs, and for him, “people are already learning to live with the virus. Already the need makes people take to the streets. “
Others, like María and Fredy, reported that they lasted for several weeks, but that the money was no longer enough to “pay for services” or rent and because “there was no longer a market in the house.”
Everyone knows that the number of infected continue to grow and agree that if they could, they would comply with the quarantine, but they have no choice but to go out wearing their masks, like Julián:
“If I don’t work, I don’t eat.”
According to the Institute for Social Economy (Ipes), in Bogotá there are 39,620 people dedicated to informal commerce; 51% are women and 45% are over 51 years old.
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