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Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Guilherme Nogueira, 28, has had to make do to the best of his abilities to eke out a living for himself and his son. Today, he sells backpacks on a tarp on the sidewalk of a busy thoroughfare in downtown Rio de Janeiro. After 2020, he was unable to find formal employment.