With most aspects of life, underprivileged people always get the short end of the stick.
Is social distancing expected to hurt the poor people more than rich?
For most developing nations, covid 19 actually affects the poor negatively as they live from hand to mouth due to inability to go about their normal business on the other hand, the rich situations seem not to change apparently.
In Tunisia where I live, the measures taken by the government (confinement for several weeks) resulted immediately in the unemployment of the vulnerable strata of the society. They are generally employed as unskilled labour, and very often in the informal sector. Anyway, they cannot telework and the few measures taken by the government to alleviate the consequences of this situation were too complicated and too long to have real effects. Numerous firms had decided to continue to pay their employees but this factually excludes the workers of the informal sector estimated to represent not less than 40% of the economy!
The most fortunate are the governmental employees who have been receiving their salaries at home during the confinement, while most of them did not telework.
Yes. The most affected one are poor only. The lock down and other measures taken by various governments have made the life of the poor specially daily wagers miserable and all are out of work without even food to eat. So policies may kill more people than corona.
It affects both rich and poor but it affects the poor more because the sustenance of some of them is affected by the social distancing measure
People can no longer afford to buy new things, the savings over the years has been exhausted majorly on feeding, the case get worsen on daily basis, people are dying of malnutrition.
Yes it does. It has shown the gap between the poor and the rich. The poor due to the COVID 19 end up getting poorer because they can only go to work physically while the rich end up getting richer because the COVID 19 was converted to an avenue for making money