Question #1: Where are you located, and how bad is, or was, the pandemic in your location, region, or country?

In Argentina, the first news about the new SARS COVID-19 virus was released in the months of January and February 2020. A few days after the declaration of the pandemic by the World Health Organization (March 11), the Argentine national government established social, preventive, and mandatory isolation (ASPO in Spanish) to contain the spread of the virus in the country. This implied the closure of all activities in person, except those considered essential. The ASPO managed to contain the advance of the virus, giving the government time to reinforce the health system that was in a very precarious situation, especially after Mauricio Macri's outgoing right-wing government demoted the Ministry of Health of the Nation to a government secretariat. In the first stage of the pandemic, which lasted most of 2020, the most affected area was the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA), which includes the capital city and the Conurbano bonaerense (densely populated areas around and up to 40 km from the capital city), where I live and work. The COVID rebound or outbreak that we are currently going through, however, is distributed throughout almost the entire country.

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人类学家回答有关大流行的四个问题

问题 1：您位于何处，您所在地区、地区或国家/地区的流行病有多严重？

在阿根廷，关于新型 SARS COVID-19 病毒的第一个消息是在 2020 年 1 月和 2 月发布的。在世界卫生组织宣布大流行后几天（3 月 11 日），阿根廷国家政府建立了社会、预防性和强制隔离（西班牙语为 ASPO）以遏制病毒在该国的传播。这意味着必须亲自关闭所有活动，但被认为必不可少的活动除外。ASPO 设法遏制了病毒的蔓延，使政府有时间加强处于非常危险境地的卫生系统，尤其是在毛里西奥·马克里即将卸任的右翼政府将国家卫生部降级为政府秘书处之后。在持续了 2020 年大部分时间的大流行的第一阶段，Conurbano Bonaerense（人口稠密的地区，距首都最远 40 公里），我生活和工作的地方。然而，我们目前正在经历的 COVID 反弹或爆发几乎遍布全国。