Muhammad al-Sayyid did not find the words he was facing, as he faced the urging of his daughter, who was not yet seven years old, asking him to fulfill his promise to her this summer's trip, and he is what has become his night and appreciates how to provide for his family’s living requirements for the rest of the month.
Mr. Qarara realizes that she will not absorb the rapid changes that have occurred in the family, as is the case with a large segment of Egyptians due to the repercussions of the spread of the Corona virus, which caused him to retreat quickly and apologize to her, sorry for the wave of anger she had when she returned to the question about the "resort" this year.
The closure of his restaurant, whose source of income will not be a convincing reason to deprive her of this promise, although in fact it will deprive her and the rest of the family (consisting of her parents and two sisters) of more urgent needs, because the lessons of her older sister, and the shares of meat and fruit that she usually adores, will not remain the same adverb.
A little calm him calm his wife's voice, reminding him of the date when one of her clients came to take home meals, she came back to work on preparing them, after a hiatus for years after the opening of their restaurant, the return will help meet the family's need, even if it is not usual.
The deterioration of living conditions, in which Mohamed El Sayed participated with a large number of Egyptians, according to a study conducted by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (government) to measure the impact of the Corona virus on the lives of Egyptians, the income of the majority of them decreased, and more than half of them resorted to borrowing and alms to cover their living needs, in light of High prices and increasing numbers of people who lost their businesses.
While the master finds in his wife's domestic work a material tributary that meets part of the family's needs, helping her to continue besides dispensing with the least essential needs, the young man Karim Subhi (newly married) was forced to return to depend on his mother after he lost his job.
The breadth of the circle
Karim regrets his situation, as he was carrying an optimistic view of the future while he was promoted in his work as a successful accountant in one of the private companies, except that the widening of the negative impact of the Corona pandemic in the surrounding circles, without the presence of an alternative that helps the affected people, as is the case with him, underestimates the matter.
The young man stresses that he will not depend long on his mother's support, as his living and financial independence is an urgent necessity, so that his family life stabilizes and he avoids the expected social problems and crises if this situation continues.
The negative social effects resulting from the deterioration of living conditions are one of the most serious crises facing Egyptian families, according to social researcher Safaa Salah El-Din, which believes that an acceptable number of Egyptians are beginning to overcome it positively.
In her talk to Al-Jazeera Net, Salah Al-Din drew attention to the fact that many husbands were forced to stay in their homes due to a curfew at the beginning of the crisis, and then because they lost their work later, which led to widespread problems and disputes, and stood on many of its models, which required extensive awareness of how to deal with those Crises.
The social researcher active in charitable work revealed that the circle of families falling under the category of middle-income class, who had to seek assistance from charitable institutions, has expanded greatly during the past weeks.
It also pointed out that a reasonable percentage of the affected families tended to diversify their sources of income and rely on elements other than the head of the family in this, such as the wife and older children who have talents that may be exploited in this context, which you see as positive in the long run.
The government study showed that 61.9% of the total Egyptians changed their working conditions after the crisis, and 89.8% of families were forced to reduce their weekly consumption of meat, birds and fish, and about half of the families relied on aid from relatives and friends to cover basic needs.
Expressive statistics
Mustafa Khudari, head of the Egyptian Center for Media and Public Opinion Studies, believes that the figures revealed by the Government Statistics Center are largely expressive of the reality of society, despite the repeated favoritism of the existing system, due to the "conflict between the Sisi regime and the sovereign organs opposing it."
The alternatives for Egyptians to overcome this crisis remain limited - according to Khudari - especially in light of the negative impact on the largest external financial resource for citizens, which comes from their expatriate workers.
But he believes that the parallel market is the most powerful defense line in the face of the crisis, because it absorbs many of the negative effects of that pandemic, and its ability to adapt to the needs of society quickly and flexibly, as it managed to overcome the shortage of imported goods by providing alternative local goods.
Khudari pointed out the necessity for the state to put in place an economic emergency plan, guaranteeing the development of local manufacturing and internal trade, and to accompany this with an integrated social program that provides the basic needs of low-income people through unemployment benefits and emergency food commodities.
He also stressed the necessity for the regime to overcome its crisis with the Islamic currents that it has been working to dry up its sources since the military coup, despite what it was playing of an important symbiotic role within society, and to cover a large part of the state’s failure in this matter.
In turn, Mustafa Shaheen, an economist and economics teacher at the American Oakland Academy, does not hope that the Egyptian regime will play an active role in overcoming this crisis, despite the importance of that, as a result of that, as a usual policy in dealing with successive economic crises in the domestic arena.
In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, he indicates that the regime in Egypt did not respect its obligations and obligations towards its citizens. In exchange for its apparent eagerness to collect the taxes and fees that it truly deems to the state, the citizen hardly gets any percentage of his corresponding rights.
Shaheen pointed out that the citizen has only two options, one of which is to reduce his consumption in general, and to seek to create sources of income that are appropriate to his new circumstances and depend on diversity as much as possible.