Quarantine is not an option for poor countries like Colombia. In an interview conducted by Daniel Roth- Editor in Chief of Linkedin can establish in Bill Gates’s vision a respected voice in the United States on the subject of COVID-19, that the quarantine strategy used in rich countries cannot be used in poor countries.
These measures are is going to create a deep crisis like what is brewing at the moment in Colombia, where the people are suffocating, especially Colombians who depend on themselves because 52% of the population are independent. According to DANE, almost 20% of the population live in poverty and are the ones who are already desperate from hunger, fermenting a social crisis.
The Colombian population is about 50 million, The DANE reported in 2018 close to 20% of the population is self-employed and 20% is under the poverty level. The fear injected by the media has created a panic for only 3,105 cases on April 15 in which 80% are recovering at home and the rest is at the hospital or about 445 and this little cases have this country paralyzed in a model that will create social unrest and push them to a social crisis unnecessarily.
