CES (com)vida 2020

Coronavirus pushes us to protect the vulnerable. The real test is what happens next 

Laura Spinney

The Guardian

Overview

The recognition of differences in vulnerability to the pandemic is also indicative of the inequalities and exclusions that crisis conditions make visible, of the precarious lives of migrants, refugees, homeless and informal and precarious workers in the North and South. To what extent, once the emergency, or at least the first wave of it, has passed, will this recognition be transformed into responses to the different forms of inequality, marginalisation, precariousness and exclusion beyond those dictated by the need to confront the threat of contagion and public health measures?