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Luciana Viegas was in a hospital room with her three-year-old son, who was breathing with the help of an oxygen balloon – suspected of covid-19, later denied by a test -, while he saw photos of friends on beaches and bars .
The basic education teacher from Várzea Paulista (SP) decided to vent.
“I was locked up for five months. I didn’t go to the market for almost two months. I didn’t party, I didn’t participate in any party. Five months with two children full time, overloaded, crying at the door wanting to walk down the street. Holding on, “he wrote on September 6 in a tweet that went viral.
“We take care of ourselves, we preserve ourselves. We stopped seeing a shovel of people. But for you it’s soft, right? (…) Just don’t come and tell me you’re worried. Because you are not. nobody’s life. Only your life matters. “
I locked myself up for 5 months. I have not been on the market for almost two months. I didn’t have a party, I didn’t participate in a party. 5 months with two children Full time, overload, crying at the gate wanting to walk down the street. Holding tight.
– Luciana Viegas (Autistic teacher) #wakandaforever (@luu_viegas) September 6, 2020
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He says it was a message mainly for friends who had followed Luciana’s suffering in December 2019, when her same son had been admitted to the ICU as children with a respiratory infection. Autistic and severe asthmatic, he arrived at the hospital with low oxygen saturation and almost had to be intubated.
“We already went through this fine line of almost losing the child to lung disease, seeing a cardiac arrest car (defibrillator) there, the doctor asking if we have faith, and he was desperate. My son was trying to breathe and couldn’t do it. He spent a week eating with a tube because he didn’t have the strength in his lungs to eat or suck, ”Luciana tells BBC News Brazil.
“It changed us, and I don’t want anyone to go through this, especially if you can cause it or you can prevent it (transmission).”
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Luciana Viegas with her husband and children: to protect the health of the child, who has severe asthma, the family remains in strict isolation
For this reason, Luciana and her family – the three-year-old son, who has already been discharged from the hospital, the two-year-old daughter and her husband – have been in strict quarantine since March, totally isolated from the rest of the world. So much so that Luciana still cannot fully understand what made her son sick this time.
Her husband had stopped working as an app driver months ago and she teaches online at home. Her mother’s opinions are from afar, at the door; rides with children, which used to be frequent on weekends, now only take place inside the car.
“We are turning around. But it is a stress,” Luciana tells the report.
“When I made the tweet I was tired. Because I saw friends who followed everything we went through last year, and now they are leaving, going to the beach, as if nothing was happening, as if it was not important (maintain isolation for other people I was so upset about it. Not staying home is very dirty. “
Drop in isolation rates
Luciana and her family embody an increasingly reduced group, less visible and more frustrated in the face of agglomeration scenarios throughout the country and a pandemic that is not cool: that of people who remain strictly in quarantine and social isolation, to protect themselves. themselves or people close to contracting the new coronavirus.
The most recent Datafolha Institute survey on the subject, on Aug. 19, noted that levels of social isolation were at the lowest level since the start of the pandemic.
In April, more than half of those interviewed said that they only left the house when it was unavoidable. In August, the share fell to 43%.
The proportion of people who are totally isolated and do not leave home at all fell from 21% on April 17 to 8% in August.
Although this group is declining, its importance was and continues to be essential to keep the levels of the pandemic in Brazil under control, explains epidemiologist Paulo Lotufo, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (USP).
He thinks that, if there had not been an effort (albeit uneven) of social isolation in recent months, the already very high number of deaths in Brazil would have been exponentially greater.
“People in isolation played a very important role, for themselves and for others,” Lotufo tells BBC News Brazil.
“Just look at the example of Manaus (at the beginning of the pandemic), where the virus had an incredible advance, killing so many people so fast, compared to São Paulo, where there was more discipline in social isolation,” he says. Although São Paulo is the state with the highest number of deaths in the country, its health system did not collapse, as happened in the Amazon.
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“People in isolation played a very important role, for themselves and for others,” says the epidemiologist.
Lack of prospects
In Rio de Janeiro, the tweet written by Luciana Viegas made psychology student Brenda Cavalcante cry.
“My soul hurt what she (Luciana) wrote, that, despite all the effort, she did not know whether or not her son had a covid,” Brenda says in the report.
Far from each other and without knowing each other, the two live in a similar situation: also in strict social isolation with her six-year-old daughter, Brenda has been six months without physical contact with her parents (who have hypertension and, therefore, are from the risk group) and for seven months without seeing their 92-year-old grandmother. And she doesn’t see any light on the horizon to indicate this is going to change anytime soon.
“The hardest thing is not having perspective,” he says. “My parents are in love with my daughter, but they only see her from the balcony. Physical contact with them is greatly missed. And I don’t know if I will have the opportunity to see my grandmother alive.”
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“I really don’t know how I will be able to live normally again, in the face of so much disappointment with the group,” says Brenda Cavalcante, still in total quarantine.
And in the same way, Brenda looks at the crowded scenes in Rio with frustration.
“I just saw on Twitter that the beach was crowded yesterday (9/13). I really don’t know how I’m going to be able to live normally again, in the face of so much disappointment with the collective. The government doesn’t even speak. But the people not only them (crowd), but they also make sure to post on social media. And I don’t even see my family.
“I try not to judge, because I know that people have no perspective, and that ends up trivializing (deaths in the pandemic): ‘he died of a covid.’ (…) But why is your mental health worth more than mine? My six-year-old daughter is afraid to approach her grandmother so as not to make her sick, and those who are 40 years old cannot control and isolate themselves?
What to do flexible?
It should be mentioned that it is usually not easy to decide, individually, what can or cannot relax in the family, professional and leisure routine, at a time when the daily number of cases and deaths is still high, although it is at a level less ago two weeks.
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The August survey found that levels of social isolation were at the lowest level since the start of the pandemic
“We have to be very careful, because Europe, with its high number of cases, shows that the disease is really coming back,” says epidemiologist Lotufo. “Although, here in Brazil, we have already had such an intensity of the pandemic that perhaps (the recurrence) is not the same (as the Europeans).
Lotufo recalls that outdoor activities, with a mask, adequate social distance and the constant use of alcohol gel for cleaning offer a low risk of contamination. This is because the free circulation of air helps to dissipate potentially infectious droplets and aerosols, unlike what happens indoors, where the air shared between people is much greater.
On the beaches, although there is free circulation of air, the problem is in the large number of people nearby, as has been seen in part of the Brazilian coast during recent weekends and holidays.
Going to the beach, by the way, is considered a moderate risk activity by the authors.
Quarantine exhaustion
In Luciana Viegas’s case, her son’s fragile lung makes any contact with the outside world still seem very scary, mainly because recent trips to the hospital are still fresh in the family’s memory.
But that does not mean that daily life with children is easy.
“I’m exhausted from quarantine, my husband too. Sometimes we have to take the car to relax, or I sleep 12 hours to rest. We have a motivator, which is my son’s life, and knowing that what I don’t want happens to him. to my son, I don’t want it to happen to others either, ”he says.
“If I were single, without children, and depended solely on my empathy, I don’t know if it would be ‘boring’ and ‘quarantine surveillance’. But it’s because people haven’t gone through this terror that I went through. My outburst (in Twitter) was precisely because of friends who saw me desperately crying nights and nights. At the same time, I was glad to see that several other people are going through the same thing as me. It is good that our voice is heard, because the news is only about people who come out of quarantine. ”
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