Fishermen shipwrecked ashore. a study on old age and pandemic in the Gulf of Mexico

ABSTRACT

This work addresses the way in which the pandemic impacts fishermen and their productive activity in a town on the Gulf of Mexico. The questions that guide the analysis are How is the pandemic perceived by fishermen over 60 years old and what are the main alterations, fears, insecurities, anxieties and risks that they face it? But also what are the hopes that have been generated in their daily lives? It was assumed that the pandemic has generated changes in their daily lives, which have been triggered by the conditions of economic, social and environmental crisis, in which they live, especially people who pass through advanced ages. It is noted that the protection measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease have affected more than the pandemic itself.