Interés Humano

Empresa prohibió a empleado usar mascarilla... fue uno de los primeros muertos por covid-19 en EE. UU.

Supermercado Publix impedía utilizar ese protector para no crear pánico entre sus clientes

Ariane Guti�rrez looks at a photo of her father Gerardo Guti�rrez who died at 70 on April 28, 2020, after a month long battle with Covid-19, in Miami Beach, on February 20, 2021. - As Covid-19 has claimed a half-million lives in the US, it seems almost impossible to believe that an American company would bar its workers from wearing protective masks. But it happened as recently as last March, when a major supermarket chain in Florida prohibited its employees from wearing masks, even as the virus -- accompanied by a mounting sense of terror -- was spreading around the world.
At the time, 70-year-old Gerardo Gutierrez was working in a Publix grocery store in Miami Beach. 
He died in late April, having contracted the coronavirus during the horrendous month of March, when residents of Italy -- stunned by the disease's deadly spread -- entered a nationwide lockdown and when the daily death toll in the US was still in the hundreds, not thousands. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)
Ariane Guti�rrez looks at a photo of her father Gerardo Guti�rrez who died at 70 on April 28, 2020, after a month long battle with Covid-19, in Miami Beach, on February 20, 2021. - As Covid-19 has claimed a half-million lives in the US, it seems almost impossible to believe that an American company would bar its workers from wearing protective masks. But it happened as recently as last March, when a major supermarket chain in Florida prohibited its employees from wearing masks, even as the virus -- accompanied by a mounting sense of terror -- was spreading around the world. At the time, 70-year-old Gerardo Gutierrez was working in a Publix grocery store in Miami Beach. He died in late April, having contracted the coronavirus during the horrendous month of March, when residents of Italy -- stunned by the disease's deadly spread -- entered a nationwide lockdown and when the daily death toll in the US was still in the hundreds, not thousands. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) CHANDAN KHANNA
Ariane Gutiérrez observaba la foto de su padre, Gerardo, quien murió en Miami Beach, Florida, el 28 de febrero del 2020, después de batallar un mes contra la covid-19. AFP Ariane Gutiérrez observaba la foto de su padre, Gerardo, quien murió en Miami Beach, Florida, el 28 de febrero del 2020, después de batallar un mes contra la covid-19. AFP (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP)

Miami Beach, EE. UU. Hoy en día, cuando Estados Unidos está por superar el siniestro hito de medio millón de muertes por covid-19, parece inconcebible que una empresa prohíba a sus trabajadores usar mascarillas.

Sin embargo, esto ocurrió hace menos de un año en una de las mayores cadenas de supermercados de Florida, cuando el coronavirus se propagaba por el mundo y el terror comenzaba a instalarse.

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