{"id":28654,"date":"2020-07-20T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=28654"},"modified":"2024-12-04T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:59:24","slug":"una-voz-que-sea-todas-las-voces-un-texto-que-sea-todos-los-textos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/una-voz-que-sea-todas-las-voces-un-texto-que-sea-todos-los-textos\/","title":{"rendered":"A voice to be all voices, a text to be all texts*"},"content":{"rendered":"

The austerity policies in public spending that were introduced in 2010 affected the resources available in the National Health Service (NHS). The austerity measures resulted in 5% pay cuts for the NHS staff, along with layoffs and a hiring freeze. During 2012 and 2013, the number of employees and salaries were further reduced and the working hours of the existing personal were increased. In 2017, the number of hospital beds in Spain was 297 per 100,000 inhabitants, while the average for the European Union is 340 beds per 100,000 inhabitants.<\/p>\n

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a: \u201cWe used to make the feedback in one single document and on Google Drive. Now we have audios, screenshots and PDFs\u201d. b: \u201cYeah\u2026 but I don\u2019t have Internet access. Each one has her own limitations in this situation. I\u2019ll send you an audio, so listen to it when you can\u201d.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Since 2012, Spain has also introduced the Royal Decree-Law 16\/2012, which changed the basis of rights, binding them together to a person\u2019s employment situation, thus eliminating \u201cuniversal health care\u201d and directly affecting thousands of migrants in a situation of social exclusion. Subsequently, the introduction of copayments and the cuts provided to health services have increased inequalities in health care for all people. Since 2019, 69% of Catalan hospitals are privately owned, as well as 56% of hospital beds.<\/p>\n

The first patient in Spain with coronavirus was recorded on January 31, 2020. At this point, we are close to more than 249,000 cases in less than five months.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe butcher says she has more work than at Christmas\u201d.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The more population, the fewer beds, and the more privatization, the more privileged those beds become. With these facts, any virus that meets the vectors of contagion, morbidity and mortality, can once again overflow and collapse public health and, therefore, deny a large part of society its right to be cared for in fundamental conditions. In that case, it would be the collective reactions of resilience based on mutual support and care that would again become essential for the sustainability of life, understood as pluralistic, changeable and diverse.<\/p>\n

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<\/span> \u201cCan we please go a little slower? At times I find it hard to follow everything so quickly. And I feel like I can\u2019t catch up\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

We can begin where we rarely begin: by saying that care work has historically reinforced the social subordination of the agents involved in it for gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, social class, education, physical and\/or mental disabilities and religion reasons. Also, if there is something that has demonstrated the strictest confinement, it is the domestic as something \u201cnaturalized\u201d, the domestication of care and the private as the space from which life is, in most cases, managed obeying the ideology and structure of the nuclear family. Furthermore, we have witnessed a relationship between military strategy and care that can easily tend to promote relational forms that stand up for sovereignty and private establishment, rather than emancipation and common care. A relationship that would be bound to a particular sense of protection that, rather than taking the needs of the other person as a starting point, \u201cassumes that the protector knows best\u201d what the person[1]<\/sup><\/a>Understood as the model subject of capitalism: cis-white-heteronormative<\/span><\/span>