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The sky was still cloudy when Elizabeth do Espírito Santo, 46, stepped onto the sand of Pitangueiras beach, in Guarujá, São Paulo coast, at 9 am today. The long vacations in the middle of the pandemic will be forever etched in your memory like the first time you visit a beach in your life.
Born and raised in Trindade, in the interior of Goiás, she says that seeing the immensity of the water has been a dream that has been nurtured since she was little. But the journey, made with her husband, Sidnei Alves de Freitas, needed to be reprogrammed multiple times due to the new coronavirus. On the first day of the extended holiday, there was intense movement and irregularities on the beaches of the coast of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. But it is sad to know that many people do not know how to take advantage of it. We arrive now in the morning, taking care to put on a mask and arrive early, just to admire it. But I heard that the beach is crowded, with many irresponsible people
Elizabeth do Espírito Santo, retired
The husband also disapproves of crowds. “If everyone did everything right, we would even have come out of the pandemic,” he says.
The couple seemed to disagree with the other tourists and residents, who did not follow the guidelines of social isolation. A scene with beach chairs, umbrellas, sarongs with entire relatives carrying refrigerators and music equipment worried the traveler Djalma Silirio, 40 years old. “I am taking all the precautions and I hope that the population also takes care of itself.”
The São Paulo state government mobilized 20,000 police officers to stop abuses on coastal beaches and help patrol the roads.
Tourists are unaware of the prohibitions on Rio’s beaches
On the beaches of southern Rio, tourists were unaware of the prohibitions imposed by the city of the capital of Rio de Janeiro.
Is it forbidden here in the sand? Did you come to get our attention? We arrived early. When we sell out, let’s go
Vânia Cunha, retired, 70 years old, sitting in a chair on Leblon beach
She is part of a family that came from Belo Horizonte (MG) to enjoy long vacations on the beaches of Rio. “Here everyone wears a mask. We came so that the children could play ball and bathe,” concluded Letícia Moreira, a 40-year-old housewife.
5.Sep.2020 – Paulistanos Everton Andrade (forward) and Rodrigo Tadeu de Oliveira, who enjoy their holidays in Rio de Janeiro, were unaware of the prohibitions on the beaches of Rio
Image: Herculano Barreto Filho / UOL
On Ipanema beach, two people from São Paulo who traveled to Rio on long vacations were unaware of the prohibitions and enjoyed the beach drinking beer on the sand. “You can’t? And who oversees that?” Asked manager Rodrigo Tadeu de Oliveira, 37.
It’s a rule that only works in theory because everyone is selling. If there really was an inspection, tourists would stop coming to Rio
Everton Andrade, model
Cariocas enjoy the sun, but avoid crowds
Pregnant with a pair of twins and at 31 weeks gestation, the 35-year-old economist Maíra Rodrigues took advantage of the end of the morning to sunbathe on Leblon beach accompanied by her husband and a friend, after a long period of isolation. Social.
5.Sep.2020 – At 31 weeks gestation, the 35-year-old economist Maíra Rodrigues kept the protective mask on her face to enjoy the sun this Saturday morning on Leblon beach, south of Rio de Janeiro.
Image: Herculano Barreto Filho / UOL
I did not go out home. Even to protect my grandmother, who is older. So I take all precautions not to contaminate myself. Two months ago, the doctor let me go for a walk on the boardwalk. But always with the mask. I avoid staying on the beach when I get full. Banning people from sitting on the sand is overkill. But there must be supervision to avoid crowds.
Maíra Rodrigues, economist
The isolation made her avoid even keeping in touch with those closest to her. It only took courage to take a dip just a week ago.
“It was invigorating. It was a feeling of freedom. But I felt some apprehension just because I took off my mask during the journey between the sand and the sea, when I had to walk among other people.”
This morning she was reunited with her friend, businesswoman Vanessa Farah, 34, whom she has not seen since the pandemic began. But she admits that she is still apprehensive about the lack of control over isolation measures. “It seems to me that there is a certainty in people that there is no state,” she says.
5.Sep.2020 – Engineer Rómulo Ladeira, 40, takes a 2-year-old son to play in a small park on the sands of Leblon beach, in the south of Rio.
Image: Herculano Barreto Filho / UOL
Engineer Rômulo Ladeira, 40, took advantage of today’s morning sun to take his 2-year-old son to a makeshift playground on Leblon beach. “It was four months without leaving the house. It was very difficult for him, mainly due to the absence of the nursery. Here he has a little fun, because there are other children around.”
What can and what is prohibited on the beaches of Rio
On the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, only the sale of processed foods is allowed. The sale of manipulated or industrialized alcoholic beverages and the rental of chairs and umbrellas is prohibited.
Bathers are also prohibited from staying on the sand strip, allowing only sea bathing and individual sports in the sea. Altinha, a soccer game in which the ball cannot touch the ground, is still prohibited.
According to phases 6A and 6B of the economic activity resumption plan, the sale of street vendors with fixed or itinerant points is allowed, from 7 to 18 hours.
