We play lives
We cannot know if we are in the second or third wave that has already begun. Yes, however, since the beginning of the pandemic there have been few deaths in the Basque Country, that the management of COVID-19 has been disastrous and that we need strong public health systems and care. COVID-19 has only deepened the heteropatriarchal capitalist system, already in crisis, accelerating the effects of structural oppression, so we must speak more of sincerity than of a pandemic.
The health system has been brought to collapse, social services have been completely privatized and surveillance has become an empty commodity. When it is not used to do business – under more brutal conditions of exploitation and slavery – the system is subjected free of charge to care, which is carried out in households, women*.
"In Portugalete I have had the opportunity to share an in-person and collective space with the families of the workers and residents of a residential center of the elderly. Hard as brilliant."
In recent months I have had the opportunity to share a classroom and collective space in Portugalete with the relatives of workers and residents of a residential center of the elderly. It lasts like bright. It faces two traumatized groups who have experienced extreme – deceased – situations. Unrecognized workers in a feminized sector who have endangered their bodies and lives; and relatives in a totally isolated resident who have radically cut off their social and affective relationships.
Workers' workloads, excessive ratios, lack of protection measures in the beginning, fears. Concern, social and physical isolation of residents and their families, lack of quality care, deaths in other residences, fears. They have had to spend many hours of conversation in order, in this traumatic situation, to stop reproaching others their experiences and raise their heads to open their eyes.
In the near future we will have to ask for studies and responsibilities, including political ones, on what has happened in nursing homes. To put on the path of researching, recognizing and repairing the lived. We cannot forget the deaths that hid us in Sestao. We must not forget that the Provincial Council of Bizkaia has provided data, hidden data, representations made and economic benefits at its headquarters.
Workers and family members start organizing their residences for residences. In these collective dialogues, common demands are reached: the need to recognize family members and residents as subjects, reduce the ratios of workers and resident workers, hire more staff for quality care and a new regulation to meet the current care needs that repeals Decree 126/2019 on nursing homes of the CAPV, despite the high ratios. Let's break these struggles on the March 4 strike, relying on the street, and take steps to build a public and community care system, we play lives.
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