![]() He called it “a little flu” and encouraged people to refuse to stay cooped up. While Rio’s governor and mayor had imposed restrictions in line with health experts’ recommendations, President Jair Bolsonaro scoffed at COVID-19. City Hall had set up another field hospital that was still ramping up to full capacity. Months after the governor promised eight such facilities, only two had been delivered. Rio state’s former health secretary had been arrested amid accusations of fraud in the emergency purchase of ventilators.Īnd federal police raided the governor’s mansion on May 26 in connection with alleged irregularities in the construction of COVID-19 field hospitals. ![]() The government response to the pandemic was in disarray. “One day there was so much lack of air, I thought I’d be gone,” she said. Still, the hospital sent her home to isolate. An X-ray showed COVID-19 had claimed a quarter of her lung, she said in an interview months later. Luzilene Viana, a 44-year-old bakery employee, was coughing and weak when Baracho dispatched her to the hospital on May 24. After medical school, he got a job at a nearby hospital, then moved away after a shootout erupted as he picked up his toddler from daycare, right next to Vila Vintem. Government neglect allowed a drug gang to take root.īaracho, 49, grew up just outside the favela, playing pick-up soccer on its dirt fields. Decades passed before basic services arrived, sometimes only after residents agreed to do the work themselves. Its name reflects its undesirable location: When first settled, the swampy area was said to be worth not even a vintem – the cheapest coin at the time, akin to a penny. Vila Vintem is home to more than 15,000 people. “We’re talking about saving lives, and our own lives.” _ This is a mission,” said Baracho, Unidos’ vice president, on April 8 as a team of seamstresses turned out medical gowns. “Carnival is a different kind of happiness, it’s playful and pleasurable. Social isolation imposed that many families, in addition to facing the challenges of the pandemic, could not experience their moment of mourning.Once again, one of Rio’s underserved communities pulled together rather than waiting for help from authorities that arrives late, if at all. Conclusion: The members of the samba schools worked with civil society, particularly with their communities, aiming to face the pandemic, publicize and promote vaccination and social assistance for their members. In addition to feelings of "mourning", "loss" and "deaths". The absence of activities at the samba school mobilized categories such as "mental illness" caused by "sadness" and "emptiness" by the absence of the samba school environment. Among the analysis categories, the interviewees pointed out the difficulty of carrying out social isolation, due to the precariousness of the residences and the size of the families. ![]() Results: 8 semi-structured interviews were carried out, all participants declared themselves to be black, living in neighborhoods on the outskirts and in the favela. All interviews were recorded and later transcribed and analyzed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. For the sample, a snowball technique with theoretical saturation was used. Inclusion criteria, over 18 years old, being an effective member of the samba school and residing in the territory. Chosen a samba school in the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo - Brazil. Objective: To analyze narratives of members of a samba school community about and their experiences in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic. This research is an excerpt from the master's thesis in Collective Health. Samba schools are part of the Brazilian black cultural heritage. Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic imposed the need for social isolation on the communities of the samba schools, with consequences for meetings, coexistence and forms of grouping between the components.
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