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This paper aims to introduce a critical reflection on the 2019-new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). It hopes this discussion could be useful to other researchers in science and technology studies (STS), to better understand the multispecies landscapes emergence and its relations with current socio-environmental and sanitary crisis. Although the COVID-19 pandemic may be seen by some groups as the ultimate manifestation of a civilizational model in crisis, or an inflection point in the linear and uncritical trajectory driven by the modern technoscientific project; this paper emphasizes the importance of thinking about the conjuncture from the possible more-than-human alliances, collaborations and arrangement that could have appeared in this period. It concludes with an invitation to pay attention to new affective sensibilities emerging from multispecies relationships in the context of lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Finally, it could be argued that creative works of literary fiction, like Disgrace, a novel by J. M. Coetzee, are powerful means for understanding this empirical phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper presents a correct interpretation of Law 14176/2021 and its requirements to comply with the Brazilian Constitution. Discussion on the law of the Continuous Aid Scheme is undertaken to see whether it implements the principle of the dignity of the human person, fundamental rights and the rights of the person, especially within the context of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 pandemic. Decision-taking on who will implement social aid policies either by the law maker when establishing the judicial norm or by the executive when examining administrative requests should not be exercised within the abstract stance of tutelage of fundamental rights without examining the implementation costs of rights and impact on budget. This is especially true when once takes into account that Brazil is a periphery country with scanty resources and high demand in basic services. However, the democratic, social and lawful State cannot put on a secondary plane economically and socially impaired people. The State has the basic duty to protect vulnerable people, a duty hailing from fundamental rights. The hypothesis-deduction is the method employed in current paper. Hypothesis placed deal with the Continuous Aid Scheme for people with deficiency according to Law 14176/2021 materializes the lawful social State by the tutelage of the dignity of socially and economically impaired people. Theoretical discussion is based on bibliographical research based on Scopus and EBSco data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: this paper aims to discuss development practices through the presentation of two case studies from Latin-American contexts. This reflection was done during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Post-development perspectives were mobilized to explore new analytical dimensions in the epistemological and socio-political critique of the capitalist mode of appropriation of nature in América Latina and their potential implications amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Methodology: two study cases from Brazil and Costa Rica were elaborated. The qualitative methodological framework used to identify actors and their complex interactions became a useful tool in reconstructing different socio-political expressions, symbolic narratives, and survival/resistance strategies emerging from local groups. Results: social-environmental crisis emerging in the Anthropocene context suggest the need for different points of view and ontological turns to gain a better understanding of social change occurred in the margins of in the Western world. Latin-American societies are multiple and diverse. Both, Brazilian and Costa Rican experiences discussed in this paper, represent situated realities which cannot be generalized, but this is a rather important and critical issue. These case studies help illustrate how the non-critical adoption of hegemonic categories of sociotechnical control and securitization is inadequate to understand and explain the contingency emerging from these situated realities. Conclusions: we suggest in the final part of the paper that these reflections contribute to bring a different perspective on how science, political and nature converge in knowledge systems and how these systems are contested for different people, groups, and communities around the world. This reflection is crucial to the study of processes concerned with political legitimacy, democracy, and territorial political identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to present a brief historical overview of the performance of the Regional Development Bank of the Far South (BRDE) in these 61 years of existence and the perspectives for the future. To do so, it begins by approaching the context of its creation and the advances made in the first decades. Then, the paper describes the recent performance of the development institution, highlighting the financing contracts, the strategy of diversifying the sources of resources, the financial results, the support to innovation and the actions of socio-environmental responsibility. Next, it discusses the BRDE's position in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, which generated restrictions on production activity and the mobility of people. The study subsequently highlights the BRDE's future agenda, showing the advance of its own methodology that shows the adherence of the Bank's contracts to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Regional Vision 2040 project and the proposal to create the South Fund. Finally, the final considerations express the main ideas presented throughout the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the dependence structure between the Brazilian stock market (IBOVESPA) and some relevant global factors. The study covers the period from January 2010 to December 2020 (daily frequency) and adopts the quantile regression approach. Regarding to existing empirical literature, this work advances in two main points: i) it uses the most recent data, including the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly affected world financial markets; and ii) it checks whether the global crisis, arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, affected the dependency structure and the co-movements between the IBOVESPA index and global factors. The mean results reveal that the Brazilian stock market exhibit dependence with global factors, especially regarding to the series SP&500 (SP500), oil price (WTI) and exchange rate (CAM). The US volatility index (VIX) and the US policy uncertainty index (IIP) do not significantly impact the IBOVESPA. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic period, it can be seen that: a) the statistical significance of the variables was verified only in some quantiles, especially in the intermediate quantiles; b) the SP500 variable had its effects accentuated; and c) the price of oil started to show a negative correlation with the returns of the IBOVESPA. Finally, the dependency structure appears to be symmetrical with respect to the quantiles, in both scenarios (crisis and non-crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout history, reading clubs have had different purposes for members and their meetings have migrated from large salons to cyberspace (Rehberg Sedo, 2003; 2011, Fuller; Rehberg Sedo, 2013). Presenting characteristics that take into account the environments and interests of the subjects involved, they find space for their dissemination in the digital environment. Thus, this paper aims to analyze the media competence of Harry Potter fans and readers who participated in the first season of the online reading club "Hogwarts, Mil Histórias", a project developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Media competence is intended to assist in the development of citizens in their social and cultural commitment (Ferrés and Piscitelli, 2015). To do so, a questionnaire was applied to ten volunteer participants of the club, analyzing the dimensions of media competence that are in operation in interactional environments, based on the theoretical-methodological proposal of Ferrés and Piscitelli (2015). It is concluded that technical skills are not a problem for readers who participated in the research, but the understanding of the wide range that encompasses media productions and its effects needs further development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the expansion of the public sphere to the virtual space and the appropriation of the internet by social movements, this paper seeks to analyze which representations are put into circulation in the public space, through the Landless Movement (MST) website on Landless solidarity, which involve the donation and production of food, during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the period of August 2020. It is supported by the Theory of Social Representations, Content Analysis, and the study of the main symbolic utterances of discourse. It concludes that the circulated representations of Landless solidarity create new meanings about the importance of agrarian reform and the MST in Brazil and its role in the fight against hunger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The (con)fusion between the concepts of real and virtual generates misunderstandings and causes countless problems for Christian pastoral practice in the current digital culture. Thus, the need to go beyond and to overcome such dichotomies and dualisms emerges, in search of an integral communication in the new contemporary communication ecosystems. For this, in this paper, based on bibliographic research and reflective essay, we will firstly problematize the relationship between real and virtual, so that the material reality of the digital is not understood only as something merely fictitious. Then, from the perspective of media ecology and integral communication, we will analyze some data concerning the ecological and also sociocultural footprint left by the digital in today’s world, in order to demonstrate its materiality. To recognize the complex interdependence between the various life environments that make up contemporary experience, we will then point to the importance of going beyond dichotomies and dualisms (such as between online and offline), giving primacy to the interrelationships and reflecting on the emergence of digital connectivity as a true existential dimension, based on the neologism onlife, proposed by Luciano Floridi. From this perspective, we will analyze some religious-ecclesial experiences and practices throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Finally, from a Christian/ /Catholic perspective, we will defend the importance of an onlife pastoral action, promoting an integral communication in the life of the Church, in which everything is closely interconnected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the advance of the extreme right and neoconservatism in Brazil and its repercussions in the sphere of state action and in the field of rights related to the exercise of prostitution, in the context of the pandemic. The conservative advance was outlined before the election of Bolsonaro and the pandemic, gained dramatic contours with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis of initiatives carried out by organizations of the movement of sex workers in the period of the pandemic, identified through documentary research, reveals the challenges, agenda and strategies adopted in the face of the pandemic and the dismantling and defunding of government actions, sponsored by the new administration. This paper also highlights the construction of articulations with different political subjects, from different spheres, in order to face demands (new and old) sharpened by the pandemic and the lack of support from the federal government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents an initial analysis of issues related to health work in Brazil, in the context of COVID-19 Pandemic, seeking to contribute to a debate about the relationships between work process, the ongoing psychological dynamics and the struggle for health. It is based on a framework of Work Organizational Psychology, guided by the point of view of the activity and experience, to account for materials emerging from an experiment that has been developed within the scope of "University Extension", under the coordination of the two authors of the paper. Initially, both the international emergency context of COVID-19 and general characteristics of the work situations that are being faced by health professionals are presented. Then, upon selection of a main axis as the object of attention, the analysis of some work situations, present in that dramatic context, is carried out, which allowed to present some clues, as conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To better understand the widespread perception of misgovernment and helplessness in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines two historic moments referring to the interface between plague and helplessness, from the psychoanalytic and political perspectives. Firstly, it addresses the intertwining between Freud's life and work, culminating with his experience during the Spanish flu pandemic, in 1920. Secondly, it analyses the measures put in place to combat the coronavirus pandemic, since March 2020, which -- until the moment I am writing this article (January 2022) -- killed more than 600,000 Brazilians and left more than five million families around the world in mourning. This paper asserts that the feeling of helplessness unveils a state of denialism and misgovernment, which calls into question the Brazilian rule of law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pandemic and the consequent social isolation have changed the perception of space and the relationship between the real and the virtual. This paper analyzes an experience of remote teaching carried out during the pandemic period of COVID-19, in order to reflect on how the appropriation, translation and re-signification of the virtual space into the real one happened, that is, what was the construction made by students regarding the understanding of contents and places explored virtually. The results obtained allow us to infer about the aggregative role of non-formal teaching spaces and the importance of using different didactic tools in the search for overcoming the most varied limitations, including moments of social isolation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on small companies in the fashion sector in Rio Grande do Sul, as well as to understand the advertising strategies adopted in the maintenance/acquisition of customers. As for its typology, this work uses Descriptive (objectives), Bibliographic, Field Research and Survey (technical procedures) and Qualitative (problem approach) research. script consisting of 13 open questions, having as target audience respondents who act as managers in small companies in the fashion sector in Rio Grande do Sul. At the end of the study, the results showed, among other points, that one of the greatest impacts of the pandemic for fashion companies was, precisely, the increase in price and the lack of raw material, the which led respondents to look for alternative materials to maintain production. Furthermore, brands had to quickly adapt to new changes, as those that did not have a more solid presence within the digital environment felt the need to accelerate this process and put all their efforts into this "new" way of selling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes teaching characteristics which are implicit to the characters of the movie "The boy who harnessed the wind". The film was compared to the students' teaching experiences. A dialogue about their representations and impacts on their/our practices in the classroom was conducted. We started to write during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Through remote synchronous meetings with students of the degree course in Geography - Supervised Internship Discipline, we used the film as a didactic resource. The results show that the students were impacted by the skills, abilities and attitudes represented by the characters, reiterating practices they considered as positive while others were reprehensible examples. The conclusion demonstrates that the use of films in the education of the geography teacher can be a satisfactory tool when its complementarity is observed, as well as the objectives and adequate didactic-pedagogical mediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on how Kardecist Spiritists have faced the difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, a comparison had realized between spiritists and no-spiritists (primarily catholic and gospel) during the second semester of 2020, involving 157 responders. The no-spiritists served as the control group. Thus, the statistical analyses (descriptive and inferential) were used only in the two groups, with no split in the second. The google-form was used to apply the questionaries. Among the main conclusions are that the spiritists have faced the pandemic with more religious support, doing more social solidarity activities, and feeling themselves sharing with the Creator the difficulties they faced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19 pandemics has been affecting the educational systems and the universities, intervening in the organization of academic work in the undergraduate courses. In the context, Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) has been adopted by the universities in order to minimize the losses on the teaching-learning process in the period of social isolation. Given that fact, this paper presents results of a research that aimed at analysing the teaching of didactics, in the period of social isolation, problematizing challenges, tensions and possibilities in face of the pedagogical work mediated by digital technology in the context of the pandemics. Regarding methodology, it if an exploratory study of quantitative and qualitative approach. The results indicated absence of effective interaction between students and teaches, caused by the lack of material conditions and by the limited access to quality internet. The students highlighted still the importance of presence teaching to preserve the quality of the teachinglearning process at the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Romani people are a minority that has been historically excluded, neglected, and persecuted in the different countries where they are settled, especially if we consider the context of their arrival in Europe and the colonization processes developed by European nations. Thus, this paper sheds light on how the Romani communities have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic from the communication and health perspective and provides a critical view of the abovementioned processes. We discuss theoretically how these ethnicities are crossed by multiple oppressions that place them in an unequal situation and the role of communication in their social inclusion or the maintenance of their exclusion. We highlight how their invisibility and how historical stereotypes were highlighted during the pandemic, deepening the unequal relations. From a critical perspective on discursive relations, we analyzed two journalistic reports from 2020, the local newspaper O Popular in Brazil and the national newspaper ABC in Spain. Some results suggest that the Romani population has been somewhat held accountable for disseminating the virus. Moreover, they seem to have been silenced as subjects capable of articulating and reflecting on their conditions and situations in the pandemic context, showing similarities in the portrayal of the Romani people in the Ibero-American context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) brought significant reflections on how people usually make financial decisions. In light of the pandemic period, managing personal finances became a major challenge, including for those people with adequate financial knowledge. The need for financial knowledge is visible, as it allows individuals to analyze their spending and reallocate their resources. From this perspective, this study aimed to identify the profile of financial decisions of accounting students at UFPB, during the financial crisis caused by Covid-19. To this end, research data were collected through a structured questionnaire adapted from the paper of Santos (2017) and Ferreira (2020) and applied electronically to students from the Accounting Sciences Course at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba. The analysis of the results shows that 81.5% of the students say that their shopping habits underwent some change during the pandemic period, and of these only 8 felt reasonably confident about their knowledge of managing their own money. It can be seen that, given the results obta, most students have a certain knowledge of personal finance and that during this period of pandemic it served to put them into practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will make a brief historical recap on the social movements of rural women workers and analyze the implications of the pandemic of COVID-19 in the lives of these women to finally discuss the forms of resistance used by this group to deal with the adversities of the current moment. The work, of qualitative approach, is anchored in the literature review and bibliographic research, in the appreciation of a report on the theme, as well as in the analysis of the reports of rural women captured during the field research conducted in the countryside of Alagoas and Pernambuco through the use of instant messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Instagram Direct, individually and asynchronously. From the analyzed material, it was found that the pandemic environment has intensified the increase in domestic violence, increased the difficulties of access to public policies and caused an overload of domestic and care work, all in a scenario marked by the decrease in family income. On the other hand, it was possible to observe how women have been organizing themselves locally, often through the use of technology, managing to find means of resistance, such as the adoption of solidarity actions and the creation of support networks in the communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to understand how a celebrity activates its political capital on Instagram to oppose social oppression and also to position herself in specific contexts, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, by assuming a posture of defense of progressive values, calling on the public and public manifestations about his vision of the world, configuring herself as a celebrityresistance. From a pragmatist (França; Simões, 2020a, 2020b) and intersectional (Crenshaw, 2002; Carrera, 2021a) approach, the analysis focuses on 39 publications from the profile of the singer Preta Gil, collected between May 4 and June 4, 2021, a period started by a remarkable event in her life: the death of Paulo Gustavo, as a result of Covid-19. By looking at the positions and values assumed by this celebrity, in addition to the minority social groups to which she pursues to link, we seek to reflect on the role that celebrities-resistance can play in the symbolic disputes held in the contemporary Brazilian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vision is considered one of the most important senses for the neuropsychomotor development of children and is essential for learning and socialization from the first years of life. However, the changes in anatomical and physiological conformations of the child's eye, which occur during growth, make children susceptible to eye health problems, requiring early identification and treatment so that they can be resolved. Therefore, this paper aims to present an experience report on the extension project "Visual Acuity Screening and Ametropia Identification in an Urban Terena Community in Campo Grande (Brazil)" developed by an academic team from the Medical School of the Mato Grosso do Sul State University. This project aimed at assessing the visual acuity in children aged 3 to 12 years old and was developed in four stages: planning of activities with the community, training of the work team, application of the visual acuity screening test, and strategies for health education in ophthalmology. Because the course of its development was affected by the Covid-19 scenario, it was essential for the academic team to make adaptations to minimize the negative impacts of the pandemic on the project, which had the participation of about 30 children. The results of this action provided early detection of low visual acuity in 4 children, 13% of the total surveyed. In addition, the action strengthened the institution-community relationship amid the Covid-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we intend to provide visibility to students’ experiences of lockdown and draw attention to the impact of the digital world. We used an approach in which this phenomenon is taken as a total social fact that is mirrored, theoretically and methodologically, by the most recent contributions of Digital Sociology. This paper shows part of the results of an exploratory study that focuses on the digital experience of 43 young first year undergraduate students of Católica Porto Business School. These students reflected, while writing biographical narratives, on their experiences during the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak, which forced a period of lockdwn. The data collected allowed us, on one hand, to understand the role played by social networks during a period of imposed physical isolation during which face-to-face contacts were discouraged and, on the other hand, what was a unique experience, worldwide in scope, of the implementation of distance learning. Results show that these students, born in a generation which emerged in the internet era and which, to that extent, have a strong relationship with the digital world, had in the social networks an ally against isolation and physical remoteness. Results also reveal that these students have come to associate these media with feelings of discomfort and exhaustion. At the same time, the imposition of distance learning without any kind of preparation on the part of schools, teachers and students had consequences that were predicted to be disastrous. However, the dissatisfaction of these students with this form of teaching is practically generalised, not only due to the lack of preparation of schools, but also to the difficulties of adjustment of teachers, in an environment in which students felt more susceptible to distraction mechanisms and in which they admitted it was more difficult to maintain concentration during classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of transience admits a wide range of meanings involving psychoanalysis from various perspectives. This article tackles the challenges and anxieties involved in living and working during the Covid-19 pandemic. It considers the notion of time "out of joint" and living with uncertainty, both implied in a different notion of time in psychoanalysis as characterized by rupture in continuities. The paper focuses on the impact of these facts on the processes of subjectivation. Themes of migration and refugees and the issue of climate change in times of uncertainty such as the present are also discussed. Interwoven are reflections on war conflicts, highlighting the ideas of Hanna Segal, who pleaded for peace and against the use of nuclear weapons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the results of qualitative empirical research developed through semi-structured interviews with first-degree judges in Brazil, which had as one of the objectives to investigate how (or if) the complete or predominantly virtual judicial provision impacted the exercise of judge's leadership. The research findings are oriented towards the fact that, although teleworking is seen as positive by almost all respondents, many of them reported that physical distancing for full or indefinite time between team members can have harmful impacts on human relations and communication speed between the manager and the team members. Thus, a tendency was identified to believe that the complete real isolation of workers has the potential to weaken essential elements of leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"There's only beauty if there is an interlocutor. The beauty of the lagoon is always someone" (Mãe, 2017, p.40). Valter Hugo Mãe expresses our desire in the making of this paper to share our experience of meeting refugee children, as part of an ongoing research project dedicated to exploring the conditions in which they live in Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the influences they bring with them from their birth countries. In the process of conducting this research, we were surprised by a group of children who belong to the Warao ethnic group, and who have been welcomed by the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, which is part of Baixada Fluminense. The Warao are indigenous peoples from the North of Venezuela and their name means "canoe," given their close relationship with water. A group of displaced Warao children and their families arrived in Nova Iguaçu after having "camped" out in the surroundings of Novo Rio bus station for a few weeks, followed by a sojourn in a public shelter, where the differences between them and the existing members of the institution led to conflict. Through a religious institution's initiative, the families then found shelter in a small farm in the city of Japeri. They stayed there for six months, but once again were threatened by the prospect of eviction, after which they were finally welcomed in the city of Nova Iguaçu. The families-five interconnected units-expressed the wish to remain together and a social service institution found them a closed school building, which was modified to accommodate the group. When the Covid pandemic struck, the research and study group GEPELID began following the daily routine of these children at the shelter school and at the Marambaia welfare center. In their meetings with the Warao, the researchers were struck by their references to the Buriti tree as the "tree of life," and the depths of its implications for their identity. In exploring this concept, the research group's experience of radical cultural difference revealed the extent to which research in the human sciences is always a meeting with the other, and the relation between researcher and subjects an occasion for dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an invitation to consider Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Question as a text that leads the reader to consider the possibilities offered by the post-Covid 19 resumption of daily school life with children as a political act. Based on a conversation that Freire had with Antônio Faundez in 1985, this text encourages researchers and educators to consider ways of returning to school life in ways that are welcoming, responsive and loving in the wake of the experience of "almost-exile" undergone during the covid-19 pandemic. It becomes necessary to think school life again from where the children truly are, restarting in full awareness of the adventures, the pains, the losses they have undergone, encouraging them to ask the questions that the pandemic experience has produced them, and to recognize the new forms of consciousness it has inaugurated. This paper explores the implications of the ideas found in the Freire-Faundez dialogue for this moment of reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the covers of the weekly Veja and Época magazines during the coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. The goal is to see how the two weeklies framed in their headlines the health crisis experienced by the country and the treatment given to President Jair Bolsonaro, whose performance was the target of criticism in the period. The corpus consists of 53 editions, making up all the numbers published in 2020 between March, the month of the first cases, and August, when the country reached the mark of 100 thousand deaths. We work with two hypotheses. The first considers that the two magazines explored the editorials of politics and economics more than the health one. The second men-tions Bolsonaro's controversial role in managing the crisis and believes that the president received more negative coverage of Época, edited by the media group that the president considered his "enemy". The result showed that the covers on the pandemic fluctuated in the period, but had more evidence than those on the economy. In addition, the news was more unfavorable to the president at Veja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to demonstrate and analyze some economic and social effects aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. I argue that those effects are the pre-pandemic disastrous political, economic and social consequences of ultraliberal and fascist forces in power. The paper also draws attention to the worsening socio-economic and harmful conditions of this context for the working class, especially for the poorest groups. To make this possible, we have been carrying out documentary and systematic literature reviews since the beginning of the pandemic. The article contributes to broader theoretical debates about the public policy in the Brazilian government's management in facing the CoVid effects, which explains the higher mortality rates and the aggravation of social problems during the current scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to investigate the limits of coping with the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, in its first 180 days. The methodology used is bibliographic survey, to find gaps in the field of social sciences, and a discourse analysis, in a Marxist sense. The results indicate two types of problems: an organic, which is related to the condition of a country of dependent capitalism, which has a form of autocratic domination, which negatively influences public health; the other is the Bolsonaro's government and its inertia in dealing with the health crisis. Also, the pandemic develops unevenly, reaching mostly the poorest and blacks / browns, showing the class character of the pandemic in Brazil. Finally, we criticize the limits of the approaches that defend the return of the Keynesian State as a solution to the crisis of neoliberalism that the coronavirus opens up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an approach to comparatively analyze the 38 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in terms of government performance in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, taking as a starting point the essence of intelligence services for national security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19 and the consequent implications of facing it have substantially impacted consumer behavior. New habits emerge from this impact and new research opportunities are arising. Given this context, this paper aims to explore the use of practical lenses to examine the emergence of shopping cleanup practices in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among Brazilian consumers. We developed a qualitative study with 34 'solicited daily' drawn up digitally using visual, audio, and written records. The main results indicated that the incorporation of cleaning practices for purchases before consumption has aroused feelings of negative impact on consumer behavior, making it mandatory to use products that already existed in the market, but that was not part of the routine. Despite resistance moments of some informants facing these new habits, all of them recognized the importance of the cleaning practices. Then, they expressed reflections and positions that point to the desire for its incorporation after the pandemic period. The emerging purchasing cleaning practices presented to demonstrate the remarkable impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on how the cleaning of purchased products is configured between the processes of buying and using consumer behavior, with the possibility of impact or even perpetuation and incorporation into habits after this period of world outbreak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the evolution of deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the municipality of Chapecó, State of Santa Catarina (Brazil). This is an ecological study, carried out through temporal analyzes using secondary data, which considers the number of deaths and the municipality’s health resources, from January 1st to July 31st, 2021. In this period, 562 deaths were registered of people with a confirmed diagnosis for COVID-19, of which 469 occurred between February and April. The profiles of such deaths were identified by sex and age group of each case. Overcrowding of beds was identified in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs), both in the Unified Health System (SUS) and in the private hospital network, especially in March, April, and May. Finally, it is highlighting the importance of vaccination to reduce mortality from the disease in the municipality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The world is experiencing a moment of apprehension, which began in late 2019 and extended throughout the years 2020/21 which corresponds to the pandemic period of Covid 19. The disease arrived in Brazil in late February and spread all over the country. In Ponta Grossa, it arrived a few months later and the first case of community transmission occurred on 05/26/2020. From this date on, it was possible to establish correlations between the climate and Covid 19, considering air temperature (maximum, average, and minimum) and solar radiation, the main goal of this paper. With the elaboration of graphs and statistical treatment of the data, it was possible to determine the correlation between climatic variables and the new cases of Covid 19. It should be noted that it is necessary to continue the research to better understand the moment we are living and the mentioned relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analyzing the professional and Institutional demands of the Social Work at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Espírito Santo, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, through revisiting the data of our master’s research (2017) – which was held from interviews with active social workers at the Student Assistance Policy of this Institute – in interface with the analysis of letters and notes produced in the pandemic context (2020) by students and workers from different professional categories. It was theoretically supported by Antunes (2018, 2020), Iamamoto (2015) and Yazbek (2009). We concluded that the qualified professional demand of Social Work differs from the institutional demand at Ifes, then (re) visiting the data contributed to resignify the way of understanding the social work demand, which is not solitary but powerful, because it makes it possible to build alliances with other workers and students who stand and fight for equity and social justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact caused by the public health crisis of the Covid-19 in Brazilian tourist cities demands that local governance implements actions to respond to and manage the crisis resulting from the suspension of tourist activities. The objective of this paper is to highlight which measures are being adopted, at a local level, in the historic and tourist city of Tiradentes in Minas Gerais State, whilst considering the limitations of theoretical and empirical studies which articulate planning, crisis management and governance in the scope of the pandemic management in tourist destinations. On the one hand, tourist destinations have the possibility of reopening and flexibilization of economic activities and on the other, the social distancing recommendations. The documental and content analysis carried out made it possible to consider Tiradentes a city of atomized governance. As a result, we identified the prioritization of the economic dimension out of conformity with the socio-environmental and socio-cultural aspects and the lack of a planning that aims to recover from the impacts of Covid-19 in the post-pandemic scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is no doubt that the year 2020 was marked in world history by the Covid-19 pandemic, which had a great global impact. Given this scenario, due to social isolation, micro and small companies end up being the most affected, since most of them work in the trade and service sectors, in addition to formal or informal workers who are unable to carry out their activities. Therefore, this paper seeks to understand the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has on the scenario of micro and small businesses, through a literature review with a qualitative approach. It is essential for the Brazilian government to position itself to support entrepreneurs, especially owners of micro and small businesses, so that it is possible to recover and resume the economy. In short, the recovery of the economy should take place at a slow pace, and will require administrative strategies and incentive policies so that entrepreneurs can gain breathe and maintain their companies. It is concluded that the economic recovery will not be quick or easy, and for workers to remain employed, get new jobs and thus be able to spend money to make the economy go round and increase the income of establishments, it is necessary to focus on policies of income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study the meanings of the sign "novo mundo" from three advertising posts of Latam Airlines, published on its Facebook page. The clipping privileged the posts with image and text that the sign "novo mundo" was materialized, in a discursive sample taken between the months of March and September 2020. We present a theoretical section that we discuss the ideological sign according to Volóchinov (2017) and a section in which we deal with the question of the concrete utterance and its methodological approach from the Bakhtin Circle. The analysis links the three advertising posts with different moments of understanding of the Coronavirus pandemic by society: a "novo mundo" in emergence, in the first, a "novo mundo" in consolidation, in the second; a "novo mundo" as already given in the third. Finally, we consider that the "novo mundo" that Latam builds in its discourse is its way of coping with the pandemic and its ideologically constructed strategy to sell tickets, which occurs simultaneously with the resumption of society's economic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, of descriptive and qualitative nature, briefly studies the evaluative language used by students in #studygram-type Instagram accounts. The research is based on the basic concepts of the theory of argumentation in language endowed with the axiological point of view. Likewise, the analysis will be carried out in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has marked the current discourse in several areas. This article serves, on the one hand, to present what type of evaluative lexicon students use in one of the most successful social networks and, on the other hand, to show that the problem of COVID-19 can be investigated not only from a medical or online teaching perspective, but also by taking into consideration the individual attitude of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper exposes the problem of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that is plaguing humanity. It reports that authors claim that pandemics can become routine, considering that the viral exchange between species has occurred more frequently due to the regular presence of man in various ecosystems. It presents a brief characterization of interstate passenger transport in Brazil. Describes the concept of PageRank, a metric that classifies web pages. Reminds the concepts of scheduling and correlation. It obtains, via open data, information on interstate and international transport in Brazil. It creates, in the form of a graph, a passenger flow network and performs a preliminary exploratory analysis there. Semantically paralleling the network created with the web, it calculates its PageRank metric and establishes its correlation with the date of the first infection in each Federative Unit in the country. Finally, it outlines a predictability of the ordinal days when each Federative Unit would be infected by means of linear regression, highlighting that, in addition to the calculations, the methodology has more relevance as a result presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has the goal to contribute to critical reflections around the educational processes developed in Brazil. Therefore, this research conducts analysis that lead to the understanding that the brazilian educational system legitimates students' selectivity and failure by a meritocratic and excluding evaluation system, which relates to the capitalist society. Furthermore, we propose a favoring to the comprehension of the relations between structural problems involving poverty, racism, and job market segmentation and the country's educational disparity increase, making an articulation with the Covid-19 pandemic impacts to the brazilian population's scholarity. Finally, an eye is directed to the brazilian youths, with the intent of understanding the current pandemic context impacts to the scholar and professional paths of this population's segment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the first false messages composition on the new coronavirus and Covid-19 that circulated in Brazil. The analysis problematize the relationships between form and content that give legitimacy to the messages and how they are inserted in the class struggle. We used the contributions of the Circle, especially Volóchinov, on the nature of language associated with contributions from the field of historical and dialectical materialism, to analyze 11 messages, two of which were analyzed deeply. The results indicated that false communications are inserted in the class struggle seeking to manipulate the interlocutor and they appropriated and mobilized elements, mainly from the spheres of Science and Journalism, to give the effect of credibility and legitimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By the end of 2019, the world was plagued by a respiratory disease which the World Health Organization named Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). With the spreading of the disease, there is an increase on the report of the cases of domestic violence as a result of people's confinement at home, increasing the interaction between victim and perpetrator. This paper analysis the statistics of victims of domestic violence assisted by the Police Unity for the Attendance of Family and Children Victims of Violence, known by Gabinetes de Atendimento, in Maputo Province and City, prior the Declaration of the State of Emergency (DSE), March 2020 and April 2019 and, after the DSE, April to June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The statistical analysis aims to understand the incidence of domestic violence and its relationship with social isolation, and social distance. The comparison of the cases assisted between April 2019 and April 2020 reveals that there was an increase in 94.4% in the monthly reported cases of domestic violence in Maputo city, and 4.6% in Maputo province. The permanent contact between the victim and perpetrator influenced the incidence of domestic violence during social isolation, and social distance, making home a place of physical, psychological and sexual violence. The establishment and dissemination of reporting telephone numbers, during the COVID-19 pandemic shows the police commitment in offering alternatives, other than face-to-face report. However, there are no substantial evidences of telephone reports. The theory of human needs of Maslow appears to be appropriate to explain the rise of domestic violence during COVID-19 pandemic since the pandemic carry with economic and social imbalance with significant impact in the satisfaction of the human needs stated in Maslow's pyramid of needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of 2019, in Wuhan, China, a coronavirus pandemic started, later called SARS CoV 2 and identified as the cause of CO VID 19 disease. This virus is a public health concern due to its ease of transmission. This virus is a public health concern due to its ease of transmission. One way to reduce this spread is by reinforcing biosafety care, therefore, this research aimed to describe the biosafety measures that should be adopted by laboratories to contain the new coronavirus in the workplace and also present the effective ways of inactivating the virus in clinical samples. For this, a bibliographic review was carried out in the online database of the Virtual Health Library (VHL), using the descriptors "Coronavirus Infections" or "Coronavirus Infections" and "Biosafety". After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, thirteen papers were used to write this material. Subsequently, biosafety measures against SARS CoV 2 were described, sectioned by: work team, personal protective equipment, laboratory environment, sample handling, sample processing and analysis, accidents and virus inactivation in samples. It can be concluded that it is essential for the laboratory team to know the principles of biosafety, in order to try to reduce the transmission of the new coronavirus, in addition to continuous training for professionals and the adoption of strict protocols and guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic that arrived in 2020 has affected the entire media landscape and corporate communication. This research has analysed the main topics on the front pages of the three Spanish economic newspapers during 2020: Expansión, Cinco Días and El Economista. The evaluation of the main front page topics has made it possible to quantify the extent to which the pandemic has displaced the coverage devoted to corporate communications in organizations. In addition, it has been possible to observe which organizations have successfully spreading their messages and which specific issues have been most related to the pandemic. The results obtained show that the health crisis has absorbed the main topics of the front pages of the economic newspapers, leaving only half of the coverage available for other topics. Within this phenomenon of absorption, the effects on employment had the greatest prominence with a 10% presence in all the headlines analysed. The coverage on unemployment is especially important if it is related to the tourism sector, which was the industry with the highest presence on the front pages (36.6% of all topics categorized as COVID-19). The significant presence of both topics indirectly points to the important weight of tourism in the Spanish economy. However, it is not possible to state that all related topics were negative because there was also coverage focused on economic recovery (4.4%). On the other hand, in the space not occupied by the pandemic, it was observed that the coverage of the Caixabank - Bankia merger was the most important in comparison with the coverage of the rest of the organizations. This business initiative achieved 2.65% of frontpage topics since the pandemic began, in a scenario that was very limited. In general, mergers and acquisitions were the most important topic in 2020, as the second most covered specific topic was the failed merger between Banc Sabadell and BBVA. Telefonica was also among the companies with the most front-page coverage, although with a greater diversity of topics. The rest of the companies analysed also showed a wide variety of corporate topics as dividend management, cash flow movements and business diversification. It was also noted that the coverage achieved on the front pages maintained a business focus and wasn't a vehicle for disseminating CSR efforts related to the pandemic. This is a very significant result because much recent literature has argued that during the pandemic, CSR has played an important role in the communication strategies of organizations. However, it seems that these actions have not been enough important to get a prominent position on the front page of Spanish business newspapers. The most important conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that corporate communication by organizations did not disappear during 2020 despite the ravages of the pandemic but was reduced by 50%. This reduction also shows a very important effect to take into consideration. During the year 2020 organizations had to work much harder to be in the spotlight even though the economic coverage of the analysed media did not completely disappear because of the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to think about the academic and educational use of the various digital platforms at this time of social isolation because of the coronavirus pandemic. This writing places itself, methodologically, as a theoretical research of bibliographic and videographic nature. The discussions presented here originate from the understanding of the importance of these digital platforms for the socialization of knowledge at a time when information and communication technologies (ICT) prove to be necessary for the survival of various institutions, including universities and schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Theory of Social Change underscores that public policy that tries to solve a collective issue will always have the capacity of impacting on the process and on the evolution of social change. Since from the start of coronavirus infection cases in Brazil, state governments established legal mechanisms for the control and coping with the disease within their respective jurisdictions. Current paper analyzes the norms and laws published by the administration of the state of Paraná, Brazil, issued between 2019 and 2020, from the point of view of the Theory of Social Change. Norms were selected by researching the digital platform Legislation State System available by the government. Research criteria were the terms "covid", "coronavirus" and "sars cov 2". However, following inclusion/exclusion criteria, only laws with direct and wide social impact were selected for analysis. Initial research produced 297 results, but only 15 attended to selection criteria. Results show the effort by the administration to control and cope with the pandemic through changes in customs involving self-protection and social movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjective well-being is a theme which analyzes how people evaluate satisfaction in life, taking into account personal aspects, experience, values and expectations. Current paper identifies subjective welfare and autonomy in home-office of university professors during the COVID-19 pandemic through a transversal study and quantitative approach. A sample of fifty-four university professors from a university in southern Brazil was generated by applying the Subjective Welfare Scale by Albuquerque and Tróccoli (2004), divided into positive and negative aspects, satisfaction with life, to which was added a dimension called autonomy in home-office during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that most professors (68.51%) showed a moderate subjective wellbeing, with negative aspects higher than the positive ones, or rather, 16.66% and 14.81%, respectively. High autonomy in home-office with 66.67% of replies has been reported. Results are satisfactory since, even though negative aspects are more present than the positive ones in subjective well-being, the professors are committed and try to perform their activities in the best way possible. This is a determining factor for institutions which are trying to make adaptations since people are the most important active goods of the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an exploratory study of image banks, specifically Getty Images and Shutterstock, analyzing whether their tagging processes reveal algorithmic forms of reproducing colonial mentalities about black women. From Patricia Hill Collins' concept of "controlling images," Jezebel, Mammy, and Sapphire images were examined, understanding that these stereotypes of black female subjectivity underscore narratives of subordination, exploitation, and animalization in the service of coloniality. While the results show specificities, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that algorithmic coloniality becomes apparent in these banks, which frequently tag the images of black women under colonial representation standards of labor, sexuality, and aggressiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of this article is the relationship between art and journalism and the functions of both speeches in history's recording and discussing. Based on this, this paper aims to establish a parallel between the literary text 'O mez da grippe' (1981), by Valêncio Xavier, some news published in 2020 and the series 'Fantasmagoria' (2020), by José Rufino, in order to consolidate art and journalism as influential vehicles in the collective memory and narrative's formation related to two distinct epidemic contexts, in the 20th and 21st centuries. Thus, this study, with bibliographic and comparative character, is divided into two parts: in the first section, the Valêncio Xavier's literary production is analyzed to emphasize the multimodality between fiction and news and offer readers an overview of the Curitiba's flu epidemic, in 1918; and, in the second part, the visual art by José Rufino and some newspapers that describe and problematize the covid-19 pandemic are presented. In the theoretical aspect, this research is based on the postulates by Linda Hutcheon, Maurice Halbwachs, Antonio Olinto, Ernest Fischer, among others. As result, very similar data were obtained, in the narratives corresponding to the two epidemic contexts, which supports the conclusion that, despite the historical distance and some specificities between the 1918 and 2020 epidemics, similarities are preponderant, revealing that the broad scope of these historical facts is intrinsically associated with the multiple character of subjective perceptions, opposing, respectively, individual memory and collective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, considering the Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in the COVID-19 pandemic, in Brazilian higher education, discusses the role of teachers and students in the teaching-learning process. At the same time that it criticizes our profession as teachers, the text returns to our practical circumstances, to say that it is possible to create didactic strategies that favor the learning of students, even in the limiting conditions inherent to the ERT. For this, the article proposes the adoption of the Multisensory Didactic Strategy, based on its application to the ERT for three academic semesters, in seven classes of three courses at two UFPE campuses. Finally, it defends that this methodological teaching proposal - classified as a (reasonably) constructivist didactic strategy - can be used through the Zoom® and Google Classroom® platforms, with significant gains over the obstacles and challenges inherent to the ERT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]