Posted on 04/10/2021 9:38:38 PM PDT by RC one
Brazil has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours for the first time, as a more contagious variant fuels a surge in cases.
Hospitals are overcrowded, with people dying as they wait for treatment in some cities, and the health system is on the brink of collapse in many areas.
The country's total death toll is now almost 337,000, second only to the US.
But President Jair Bolsonaro continues to oppose any lockdown measures to curb the outbreak.
He argues that the damage to the economy would be worse than the effects of the virus itself, and has tried to reverse some of the restrictions imposed by local authorities in the courts.
Speaking to supporters outside the presidential residence on Tuesday, he criticised quarantine measures and suggested without evidence that they were linked to obesity and depression. He did not comment on the 4,195 deaths recorded in the previous 24 hours.
To date, Brazil has recorded more than 13 million cases of coronavirus, according to the health ministry. Some 66,570 people died with Covid-19 in March, more than double the previous monthly record.
"Brazil now... is a threat to the entire effort of the international community to control the pandemic," Dr Miguel Nicolelis, who has been closely tracking cases in the country, told the BBC.
"If Brazil is not under control, then the planet is not going to be safe, because we are brewing new variants every week... and they are going to cross borders," he said.
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Or, perhaps, he’s a effing idiot?
That is something no one here is taking into account. The U.S. has a pop. of 330 mil and has had 30 mil confirmed cases. Brazil has a pop. of 212 mil and has had 13 mil confirmed cases.
Their medical care is obviously worse than our (and/or their population has more unhealthy people to start with) but Brazil has had a far lower percentage of the population become infected in the first place.
That correlates with the state-by-state comparison in the U.S. that less restrictions results in less cases.
Why do you accuse a fellow freeper of being drunk? Just stick to your argument...personal attacks indicate a weak proposal/argument.
I’m not arguing about that. Never said a word about it.
There you go again with personal attacks.
Please don’t post them to me.
Biden will put them on those 21,000 mph aircraft he talked about and very quickly fly them to all points USA.
😂😍
I’ve always wondered what a health care collapse looks like. Do hospitals just implode on themselves?
“People dying as they await care”...you mean like Canada and Great Britain?
This reads like fear porn from a journ-o-lista seeking to pressure Brazil into going into lockdown.
A virus with a 99.15% SURVIVAL rate among the infected IS NOT DEADLY! It does kill some folks, but its fatality rate is BELOW that of THE FLU!
But you go right on ahead with your papermask fetish. Just leave the folks that are rational and discerning alone, Karen.
When two variants love each other very very much, they, well, kiss and produce a baby variant...
> I hope they blame China. We should all be blaming China. <
China is, of course, responsible for this horror. They should be paying damages to every infected person. And there was one world leader - Donald Trump - who did blame China directly. But then the Deep State pushed Trump aside.
When will the Democrats be calling for humanitarian aid so tens of thousands of infected Brazilians can the brought to the United States for treatment?
Yeah, baby!
Send us their women.
I recently mentioned that Brazil’s estimated population was 210,147,125 in 2019. Much of that population is also densely concentrated in a few small areas. It’s a rough situation with respect to epidemics, and it’s always been that way in many of the countries very near the Equator in spite of more than a hundred years of efforts of many philanthropists. It appears that it has much to do with physical brain differences and other differences that make cultures difficult to change.
RC one is correct. This is genocide, a mass killing. And it was perpetrated by China. The folks who don’t want to wear masks are not to blame. And neither are the folks who don’t want to get vaccinated. Etc.
Communist China is to blame here. By accident or by design, they killed hundreds of thousands of people. To say otherwise is to let those bastards off the hook.
Is this comparable to the Holocaust? For a number of reasons, no. But it is genocide nonetheless. Don’t let those CCP bastards off the hook.
F’en lies!
Correction. Millions.
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