{"id":830,"date":"2021-04-21T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anothersky.ufba.br\/?p=830"},"modified":"2021-04-21T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:56:02","slug":"the-potyguara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/2021\/04\/21\/the-potyguara\/","title":{"rendered":"The Potyguara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Researcher: <\/strong>Daniela Alves de Ara\u00fajo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviewee:<\/strong> Toinha Potyguara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>21\/09\/2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My name is Ant\u00f4nia Santos do Nascimento, I am known as Toinha Potyguara, I am 36 and belong to the Potyguara people of the Juc\u00e1s village, which is on the outskirts of the municipality of  Monsenhor Tabosa, in Cear\u00e1 state. In my village, there were and continue to be Covid-19 cases. The protocols we adopted, as a village and as a health clinic, were to erect sanitary barriers at the entrance to the city, because we live on the outskirts; to use gel alcohol and masks; and make everyone aware that Covid-19 is invisible.  Our village also took the precaution to ask relatives, who are very fond of visiting other relatives, to stay at home more, and if they have to go out, to use masks and protect themselves; since we have a village with many people with high blood pressure, diabetes and other pathologies, which are the major risk groups, as well as children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, as an Indigenous health agent (AIS), it\u2019s been a worrisome period, because at no time did those of us in health services stop working.  We are working on foot, and making home visits.  We don\u2019t enter homes, but we never fail to provide assistance to our children and the hypertensives, always making people aware.  At some critical moments, we had to work via cell phone. We often work via WhatsApp, and social networks.  It is, therefore, not an easy time, not just for us, in the Jucas village, but I think for the world. At one point, we were the city with the least cases (in the region), but now community transmission is occurring, we no longer know where the disease is; we are experiencing a very critical moment. At my clinic, we had professionals who got infected, but, thank God, we are fighting this virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some manner, like it or not, we were affected, I felt affected. We continue to fight today. Thank God, up to this very moment, my prevention to not contract this virus is working. It\u2019s scary, because it\u2019s a disease that is sometimes lethal. I lost someone very important to me, my cousin, my work partner, an Indigenous health agent from the village of Grota Verde, who helped its families very much.  She was unable to resist Covid-19 and died.  I also lost some friends. This pandemic, for us, Indigenous people, has caused a great loss, we are the people who have been most affected.  Every day, we are knocking on the door of each relative and asking them to stay home, to go out only if it\u2019s really necessary. However, work for us is not easy. It\u2019s a difficult moment, it\u2019s very difficult, but we are fighting. May father Tup\u00e3 bless us and protect us in this very difficult moment, when we don\u2019t know where the disease is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, our city is badly affected; at one time, it wasn\u2019t. Many of our relatives here are already affected, we have already lost some. At my health clinic, we have three areas and I belong to area 1. Today, we have 26 infected Indigenous people, and we are still waiting for some results.\u00a0 We are fighting and some people have been cured. However, for us, it\u2019s all still very new. As Indigenous health agents, psychologically, we are upset.\u00a0 In addition to being a professional, I am a mother, a parent, and a friend, so I ask people to stay at home and only go out if it\u2019s really necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviewee: <\/strong>Cleomar Pereira dos Santos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>07\/09\/2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questionnaire:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. What is your name?<\/li>
  2. How old are you?<\/li>
  3. Who are your people? What is your village and municipality?<\/li>
  4. In your village, were there any cases of Covid-19?<\/li>
  5. What safety protocols did the village adopt?<\/li>
  6. How was it for you, an Indigenous person, to live through this very difficult moment?<\/li>
  7. Were you affected in any way? If so, what were the main impacts?<\/li>
  8. Did you lose a relative or someone you know to Covid-19?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1 \u2013 My name is Cleomar Pereira dos Santos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2 \u2013 I am 42 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3 \u2013 I am Potyguara from the village of Tour\u00e3o, in the municipality of Monsenhor Tabosa in Cear\u00e1 state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    4 \u2013 In our village there were no cases of Covid-19, thank God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    5 \u2013 The protocol that we tried to establish here in the village is to raise people\u2019s awareness not to leave their homes; not to go into the city, unless it was necessary; use masks, gel alcohol, and when they arrive from the city, to sanitize everything, remove the clothes used in the city, change into others, and wash those separately, because they could carry the virus. Every time someone goes to the city, we are aware of it. Mask use is constant, but there are those who are more stubborn, who don\u2019t want to use masks or gel alcohol. So then we start talking diplomatically until we manage to raise the awareness of these people. It\u2019s difficult, but we do our part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6 and 7 \u2013 Living through this moment has been very difficult for us. It is something that caught us by surprise, because it is a virus for which there is no remedy and no vaccine. It was very difficult, especially for me, as a health agent. Many times, we would ask people to use masks and they expressed ignorant attitudes. People lacked understanding. This was the most difficult period I\u2019ve ever encountered in my whole life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8 \u2013 Yes, I lost a friend.  She was a health agent on our team.  For us, it was a great loss, a very sweet, much beloved person, and Covid-19 took our friend from this world to the next. Her name is Daniela; she was also a health agent in our area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Researcher: Daniela Alves de Ara\u00fajo Interviewee: Toinha Potyguara Date: 21\/09\/2020 My name is Ant\u00f4nia Santos do Nascimento, I am known as Toinha Potyguara, I am 36 and belong to the Potyguara people of the Juc\u00e1s village, which is on the outskirts of the municipality of  Monsenhor Tabosa, in Cear\u00e1 state. In my village, there were … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}