Rua dos Riscos

Let's play who are we.  We work everywhere, from airports, hospitals to the streets, but most of people don't care or don't even notice us.  we help to prevent a lot of diseases, but we normally don't go to the university and the majority don't have any kind of qualifications.  we help to preserve a good and clean environment, but normally we don't care about global warming, we work so much and earn so poorly that our concerns are how to have money to eat until the end of the month and help our family. During quarantine we didn't stop working because society needs us, but at night nobody clapped specific for our efforts, some don't even remember that we exist. who are we? Another invisible group of professionals we should clap, it's trash workers. we just notice their work, when it's not done and the garbage accomulates in the streets, or all over the planet.  I think for us, who live in "developed" countries its something we see as ens...

For day's in this pandemic crisis, from my window I saw people walking, playing around in the streets and forest, some in groups, family, like nothing was happening, (liberty) maybe they were just in vacations. At night I listened the clapping, the nice words in tribute to health professionals, so I had mix feelings about this conflit between liberty and security, a equilibrium that Suisse society has and I enjoy, but I thought that the social distance, (security) that in most cases I didn't see during day, was to prevent the health system to collapse, so that health workers like Marlene  could continue to do a good job whithout collapsing. Anyone see this conflit or it's just me? Maybe I'm emotionally to close. (the sketch it's a composition made from some photos I found on the internet and a report about covid19 from the portuguese TV program  sexta as 9 ) Main media and authorities they focus a lot about infected and dead people when they talk about...