Who is vulnerable to Covid 19?

According to Key Humanitarian "parties",  people who are vulnerable to the virus include : 
The Elderly, Health workers, Detainees, people with chronic diseases, the homeless and displaced/refugees so Let's distribute hygiene kits, do a couple of awareness sessions and call it a day!
However, let alone the ever shifting characteristics of vulnerability depending on each context, Vulnerability to Covid19 needs to be seen through the lens of prevention not only dissemination, we need to talk about information and confinement.
One of the most important vulnerability nowadays with this fast spreading disease is the lack of access to adequate fast and efficient information. Our classical means of spreading information are inadequate, our awareness sessions tools are too. 
The most valuable and accurate information is available online for those who know where to look for it, and those who -let's face it- speak English ( for reasons of speed and accuracy) 
People with no access to internet are at a greater risk, they simply do not know how to protect themselves as such they can not only catch the virus but also participate unwillingly in spreading it. lack of access to information could be a question of age sometimes, but its  more often than not a question of economic means and national infrastructures.... ( Can I afford internet, Do I own a TV, is there electricity?...)
Other  vulnerabilities are linked to confinement: 
what about People with mental health issues, those particularly set off by the double risk of contagion and Isolation. 
What about abused partners? where do you run away from violence if you are not allowed to run away? 
Stay home stay safe we say, but what if home is not safe?
The poor, the isolated, the mentally vulnerable, the abused... let us not forget these before we claim we are responding to Covid.
Finally, let us not forget refugees' camps... this is where all minimum standards need to be reviewed illico presto to allow for confinement and containment, if not camps need to be evacuated before we see them transform into cemeteries. 
We are witnessing a shift if not a reversal in the world order, people questioning governments, social media serving as information platforms, doctors becoming super stars and movements of solidarity on national scales that are born of a distrust in political processes but also a newfound awareness of our humanity and fraternity.  
Where will INGOs be when this new world emerges? On the side of governments or on that of the people in need? One wonders... 

- Dima EL SAYED   
Beirut, st April 2020

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