Great News!

 

Brazil has eradicated the corona virus! Maybe not the whole country, just São Paulo. Isn´t that the news of the year? Whether it is fake or not, it certainly feels like it.

Up until last week, the hospital beds were full; people dying in the hospital corridors and families grieving their departed. Now, all of a sudden everything has gone back to prior to corona. Malls reopening, street stores reopening, restaurants reopening, people roaming the streets without their masks on and most of all, reuniting and partying. Reopening because Mother´s Day is around the corner and store owners are complaining that they are not making money. Not that these rules prior to this weekend were being followed to the core anyway.

This weekend the noise coming from the local bars was insanely loud and not only that, but horns were also being honked in a symphony to shut up those who started complaining and to celebrate the end of an epidemic. In my simplicity, I still thought the curfew hadn´t been lifted. If so, at least that is what I had read in the newspaper, then how were those people gathered and partying. All night long, as Lionel Richie would say. I wouldn´t be surprised if that song started playing. It was the vibe that was seeping through my window. “We´re gonna have a party, all night long, all night, all night.” Thank you Mr. Richie, now that song is playing in my head and most probably will be playing “all day long, all day, all day”.  

Some days I feel like I have been left behind in a city infested by this virus and no one else can catch it but me. People are still perishing. People are still getting ill. People are still hurting. Is it that hard to understand that this is a world issue? Is it that hard to have faith that this will pass eventually if everyone just does what needs to be done? Is it so amazingly difficult to realize that if we do what has to be done now, we will be able to gather in the near forthcoming, or whenever that is – near or far? I don´t think so.

 

Written : April 25, 2021

 

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