I’ve been unable to make a blogpost for months because I’ve been feeling down and lost with my words.
It feels like my vocabulary, in Portuguese and english is not vast enough to articulate how insane is the Covid situation here in Brazil.
Soon enough I will complete a year of social isolation. I have been social distancing since March 16th 2020, going out only for work and supplies. So far I haven’t got Covid, nor did my mother, who lives with me. I’ve been take this shit seriously from the start, informing myself through real science and not giving much attention to what our government is saying (otherwise I would have gone insane months ago)... But is getting hard to be mentally and emotionally stable watching the genocide that is happening here.
Yes, GENOCIDE.
The entire country health system, both public and private are collapsing. Hospitals are running out of ICU beds and in some cities are running out of oxygen tanks, and people are died of asphyxiation (not only Covid patients, but any patient who need oxygen for any reason), and new born babies had to be sent to other cities because of the shortage.
Our federal government ignored the contact by Pfizer, and didn’t make any deal to buy vaccines for months. Now they spent billions of our money in a vaccine that is still in the testing phase and the efficiency is months from being proven. More variants of the virus are coming up and, if the mass vaccination doesn’t accelerate the virus will come into contact with the few that were vaccinated and a new variant, resistant to the vaccines wil throw all the (world’s) effort down the drain. A bunch of brazilians have european passports and are travelling willy nelly. We are a hazard to the world, so every nation need to pay attention to what is happening here.
All the decision the federal government made so far put us in to a bad situation after another. They even confiscated the vaccines the Governor of my city bough independently with our city budget, and after that tried to prohibited the governors and mayors of every state to purchase vaccines directly with the manufacturer.
Because of all of that I’m convinced that the federal government has a plan to isolate Brazil from the rest of the world and throw a coup, and he already have the military by his side.
I feel the need to go away, but is impossible and will be impossible for a good while.
The future looks bleak, my mood is all over the place and I haven’t had a good day in a while. I’m not working as much, not feeling creative or inspired but also work has been scarce.
Please send good vibes to us and spread awareness of what is happening in Brazil, is tough to read the news but knowledge is power, knowledge is the fuel for change, and we need all the help we can get.
Thanks for reading this far.
Take care,
xoxo
;)