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– It was difficult, but I’m already here!
– Oh comrade, there is no way to shut us up, they tried very well.
– No, but I could see that this year we were not going to get here …
The expectation was high. On the one hand, those who fought for “months” to reach the 44th Avante Festival. On the other, those who wanted to see how the PCP managed to gather thousands of people in the same room, complying with all the rules that the health authorities would impose. But the proof is given: the rules are strictly enforced and even those who try to break them are unlucky.
“It was just a beer”, because it was “alone”, but the clock already marked 8:25 at night and the partner, on the third attempt in different spaces of the party, gave up. The rules state, for example, that alcoholic beverages can only be consumed after 8 pm if it accompanies a meal. This was not the case and none of the spaces yielded to the request. This is the case throughout the room. The white arrows painted on the ground indicate the corridors and each time someone else distracted contradicts them, a voice reminds us that “you have to follow the rules” and “set an example.” There are countless disinfecting gel dispensers and the containers for depositing disposable masks the same.
Jerónimo opens Avante with criticism of the DGS and to the right: “They want us to be quiet, confined, quiet and scared”
Orderly entrances, physical spacing between those present, constant disinfection of surfaces. Everything is ready. What’s missing? Avante’s usual festive soul. The voices heard are low, muffled by the masks on everyone’s face, almost full time and even when they are not mandatory. In the children’s space, there are few who play and some of the merchants who have points of sale at the Festa do Avante note the “great opportunity” compared to previous years.
Until the Carvalhesa It is different, when it was echoed for the first time in the May 1 auditorium, the participants jumped in places, without the usual hugs and the closeness that characterizes the somewhat uncoordinated choreography to the sound of “tutururututu-tutururutu”. Everything is different, in everyone’s daily life and, necessarily, in Quinta da Atalaia. The PCP’s arguments do not seem to have yet convinced everyone about the health security in the Party, on this first day.
Jerónimo’s opening speech, through the venue’s sound system, still concentrated a few hundred people near the main stage, but some difficulties in the sound complicated the lives of those who wanted to listen and who ended up choosing to access social networks . party to hear better. Applause? Guaranteed after the long-awaited phrase: “We declare the 44th edition of the Fiesta Avante open!”.
The alignment that usually follows was also clear: Internacional, Hino Nacional and Carvalhesa. Internacional sang as usual, a technical foul in the National Anthem and Carvalhesa did not echo after the official opening speech. There is expectation for the next few days and a positive sign in the strict compliance with the DGS “demanding standards” that the PCP complains about.
The contingency plan of the Festa do Avante (almost) became the chemical paper of the DGS recommendations. An Avante “sanitized” according to the rules
