FROM THE EARTH OF NEVER NEVER: Mexico and the Covid-19 epidemic

Abstract

The writing of this article was done after we had been locked in our homes for more than 250 days because all Mexicans were asked to stay at home if we could do so. We are part of the smallest group of people who can ”“ or want ”“ maintain confinement despite what it means to work outside the office, not be able to meet in person with our colleagues, friends and family and depend on the information we can manage in a way that goes back. This article presents some of the social effects of confinement and the health crisis in Mexico. Without accounting for contagion and deaths, we are interested in highlighting the consequences of contingency on mental health, violence and dropout in Mexican households, especially among women. We will also include some stories of pandemic-affected families and retrieve interviews about the experience of the disease in people's lives.