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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Only 2.1 percent of Brazilians have received two vaccine shots, and only a third of the 77 million Brazilians who qualify for shots — the elderly, health care workers and Indigenous communities —are being vaccinated. Fewer than 7 percent of Brazilians have received at least one shot since January.Mar 31, 2021
Bolsonaro is widely hated by the left, including within Brazil. I wouldn’t trust a single number that comes out of there. IIRC, they have a couple of mini-Faucis in their government health bureaucracy who have had conflicts with Bolsonaro (who is regarded as...gasp!...a Trump ally).
You nailed it!
In other news, blowing up the covid propagandists talking points...
“The effectiveness rate of a coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac, a Chinese developer, at preventing symptomatic infections has been found to be as low as 50.4% by researchers in Brazil.”
BINGO. this is just a variation on TRUMPRID-19
Covid? It is just Flu /S
Sounds like to me they are trying to force out the conservative President
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That explanation makes the most sense. What’s going on could not be more sinister.
Trust but verify.
Our stats are crap.
Brazil’s likely are, too.
ChiCom vac is not even 50% effective. It’s probably far less.
That isn’t helping.
“how about we all blame Fauci and his “gain of function” research that he subbed out to China when he was told it was too dangerous.”
Not to mention illegal in the US and immoral.
Dr. Fallacy helped make a bioweapon for the PLA. ARREST HIM! 💉
Brazil had the Chinese donated vaccine.
Information found in the posts at this link in posts 5 and 11.
China admits that it’s COVID-19 vaccine isn’t very effective: official
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3949614/posts
Are there any studies that show that this is a viable therapy?
Ever seen pics of Brazils shanty towns? How would you lock them down?
Perhaps they are being ‘seeded’ with the virus in a continuous basis unless and until Bolsonaro is gone. Perhaps the same thing happened in the US until the desired electoral outcome was achieved.
Before you scream ‘conspiracy theory’, ask yourself if there are people in the world who are that evil and that bloodthirsty for power that they would conceivably do such a thing.
Whether something like that happened or is currently happening may be far fetched, but what is not far fetched is that there are definitely people who are that evil and bloodthirsty for power.
Brazil should be locked down tight and the international community needs to help them get their disaster under control. so it doesn’t spread to the international community.
No worries mate, our border with South and Central America is air-tight.
Well, duh. They’re headlong into winter.
They’ve not seen the worst of it....unless they quickly adopt the “tin-hat” treatments which have been so successful here for the open minded.
Why is there no Polish variant? Or French variant? or Italian variant? Actually, I’m sure there are but they haven’t gained mutations that make them newsworthy. America is the melting pot however. Maybe P.1 and B117will find eash other in a US airport or something and then-BAM! some lucky American will get PB117. B117 is now the most common variant in America btw so it’s possible.
Four hundred years is quite a bit of time to learn. Some cultures do well at invention. Others do well with mathematics but not invention. Others yet, don’t do much of either. The brain is an interest object of study.
It wasn’t a personal attack. I’d have joined him in a drink.
We both know that Goebbels would be more impressed with your propaganda er, commentary than mine. It operates on a much deeper level and will surely result in many dead brown people.
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