In these two years of a pandemic, so many people in my life had never caught Covid-19.
Hospitals are full, there are no more tests at the pharmacy (at the nearby UBS, the wait for the cotton swab was 5 to 6 hours), people drink ridiculous chair tea 24 hours a day for a medical appointment.
Airlines are already canceling flights for lack of negative employees. It was obvious that bars and restaurants, as well as commerce in general, would not be spared.
Since December, the food sector has laid off one in five workers every week, on sick leave due to Covid or the flu.
With the federal government withholding information about the pandemic – and states and municipalities pretending to be dead –, there is nothing to indicate that the pace of the disease’s spread will soon subside. Quite the opposite.
The onslaught of omicron mounts each week, and what seems to await us is a collapse in commerce and services. Someone on Twitter recalled that this also involves health professionals. It won’t be pretty.
But the issue here is food. Without cooks, waiters and delivery people, restaurants and bars will be forced to close again. Not by any decree of mayor or governor, but by lack of manpower.
With the blackout of motoboys and cooks, delivery – an exit for the sector in the pandemic so far – will not be an option. We can only hope that the outbreak is as brief as it is devastating.
I have no doubt that many will remain open with the infected team, which will only prolong and intensify the reforestation. And then the authorities will need to act, as they have already done in several European countries, in Canada and even in the city of Amparo in São Paulo.
It is never too much to remember that the majority of the adult population has completed the vaccine cycle and that the omicron is less virulent than the variants that preceded it. Therefore, the number of serious cases and deaths does not explode.
Can you imagine if we had let it go, released the general woohoo back there, as our crappy president always preached?
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