Eating Cheetos

May 15, 2020, 01:47 PM

Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Isabella Lootens.

"I have been quarantining now for 2 months. It has been kind of hard and sad, I'm a very sociable person so staying at home for this long is very uncomfortable for me. Eating has been one of the few happy things, especially eating unhealthy snack like cheetos (!) As for my country and community things have been very intense. 

"I live in Brazil, if you take two seconds to read about our situation you'll see how crazy it has been for us. 

First of all our president is completely nuts and simply does not really care about his people, he has said over and over that we shouldn't be in quarantine because it's going to destroy the country's economy... like I'm pretty sure thousands and thousands of people dying will also ruin the economy but ok. 

"Some of his other statements were that the coronavirus is just a "little cold" and the exact words "so what, so sorry, what do you want me to do?" when reporters confronted him about the enormous and rising number of deaths. 

"He also fired the Minister of Health because he was following the OMS' recommendations, yup that's it! The Minister was telling people to stay at home, wear masks, wash their hands and well Bolsonaro just didn't like that.... Oh and he has also promoted two protests since the pandemic started, yes protests filled with people and no social distancing. 

"One of the protests was against the Supreme Court and the other against the quarantine. So yeah it has been a very crazy and incredibly hard 2 months and with this lunatic in power we will probably stay in quarantine for way longer."

Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds