Brazil

Laysa Rocha – Fortaleza Ceará, Brazil 

“Now everything is closed so I’m just staying at home most of the time because I actually can’t leave my house.”

“My family decided not to go out unless it’s really necessary, we’re washing our hands way more than often and taking some new vitamins to help our body to get stronger so we don’t get sick.” 

“Right now pretty much everything is closed, I think most the community understands it but there are a lot of people that think it’s not really necessary. My grandma, for example, really wants to leave her house even with everything closed and with us telling her not to do it, since the eldest are in most risk, she gets really annoyed by us warning her. I hear that most of my friends family’s actually care about the disease and are taking the necessary precautions, but also they told me their grandparents don’t really care and want to go out anyway, which is what’s not recommended. For me, I felt pretty scared to be honest, it’s really crazy to think that this is actually happening cause it’s something we see in movies. But I really have hope that it’ll go away soon.”