I was too busy cooking and cleaning and caring for my daughter The New York TimesAug. 11, 2020 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — I have a subscription to a monthly magazine called Piauí. In July, I spent so many days without opening the front door that I could only wonder […]
Posts Tagged ‘coronavirus’
Our President Got the Virus. I Barely Noticed.
Posted: 13th agosto 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: coronavirus, covid-19, hydroxychloroquine, isolation, Jair Bolsonaro, motherhood, parenting
Brazilians die, Bolsonaro shrugs
Posted: 17th junho 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York Review of BooksTags: chloroquine, coronavirus, covid-19, Jair Bolsonaro, magic bean seeds, rain
New York Review of Books (Daily)Jun. 10, 2020 by Vanessa Barbara SÃO PAULO—“So what? I’m sorry. What do you want me to do?” So said Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, on April 28 when a reporter pointed out that the country’s toll from Covid-19 had just surpassed China’s—reaching the grim milestone of 5,000 deaths. By the […]
‘We Will All Die One Day,’ My President Said
Posted: 16th abril 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: coronavirus, covid-19, Jair Bolsonaro, PCR
We live in a time of more questions than answers. Beware anyone who thinks otherwise, especially presidents. The New York TimesApr. 14, 2020 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — My first symptoms started on a Monday morning, March 23. I was just getting over a random disease that my daughter had […]
Pandemic Journal: São Paulo
Posted: 23rd março 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York Review of BooksTags: coronavirus, H1N1, Influenza B, pandemic, quarantine
This running series of brief dispatches by New York Review writers will document the coronavirus outbreak with regular updates from around the world. —The Editors The New York Review of Books (Daily)by Vanessa BarbaraMarch 20, 2020 SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Over the last week, a powerful virus has been circulating among the toddlers in my daughter’s public nursery school. […]
