Coronavirus: Brazil's Bolsonaro joins anti-lockdown protests BBC - https://tinyurl.com/yaynx2z7 Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has come under criticism for joining protesters demanding that restrictions on movement introduced to stop the spread of coronavirus be lifted. Mr Bolsonaro has clashed in recent weeks with state governors who have imposed lockdowns, denouncing the measures as "dictatorial". As of Sunday, Brazil had more than 38,000 confirmed cases, the highest number in Latin America. More than 2,400 people there have died. President Bolsonaro addressed a crowd of a few hundred supporters outside army headquarters in the capital, Brasilia, on Sunday. He said the protesters were "patriots" for defending individual freedoms. As well as demanding an end to the lockdown, some of those attending the rally also held up signs calling for Brazil's Congress and the Supreme Court to be closed down. Others said they wanted the military to take over the handling of the coronavirus crisis. Brazil was under military rule for more than two decades from 1964 until 1985 and calls for the armed forces to be given more power are highly controversial. While the president did not make any reference to those demands at the time, his appearance at the rally - at which people were calling for the closure of the country's democratic institutions - was labelled "provocative" by his critics. On Monday, however, while talking to journalists, Mr Bolsonaro quickly responded to one of his supporters who called for the closure of the Supreme Court by stating that Brazil was a democratic country. He said that the nation's top court, as well as Congress, would remain open. Journalists have noted that at Sunday's rally the president neither wore a face mask, even though he coughed on occasion, nor gloves - precautions which many other politicians in the region are taking. He has in the past dismissed coronavirus as "little more than a flu". Rodrigo Maia, the speaker of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and a critic of Mr Bolsonaro, tweeted that "the whole world is united against coronavirus, but in Brazil we have to fight the coronavirus and the virus of authoritarianism". "In the name of the Chamber of Deputies, I reject any and all acts which defend the dictatorship," he added. Relations between the president on the one hand and Congress and the Supreme Court on the other have been tense, with Mr Bolsonaro claiming they are trying to curtail his powers and even oust him. Last week, the president sacked his health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who had backed the lockdown measures. President Bolsonaro argues that the lockdown measures are damaging the economy and has argued that they should be eased and Brazil's borders reopened.
"As of Sunday, Brazil had more than 38,000 confirmed cases, the highest number in Latin America." The top five most populous countries in Latin America according to July 2015 estimates include: Brazil: 204,259,812. Mexico: 121,736,809. Colombia: 46,736,728. Argentina: 43,431,886. Peru: 30,444,999. Of course they're going to have a higher case count. What a joke.
'It's like a horror movie': Grim warning by mayor of Brazilian city worst-hit by coronavirus as bodies are piled up in refrigerated trucks after President Bolsonaro dismissed Covid-19 as 'flu' Mayor of Manaus in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas said the situation is one of 'absolute calamity' The daily death rate shot up from 20-30 per day to more than 100 because of the coronavirus pandemic The pandemic has also reached extremely vulnerable indigenous communities in the state of Amazonas https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8252459/Bodies-piled-Brazilian-city-Manaus-coronavirus.html
are we just gonna glance over the fact Trump said to inject cleaning agents? Face it GWB, we've got the biggest idiot. We're number 1
Well.... to be fair... the people who inject cleaning agents won't have coronavirus listed as their cause of death.
Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-becoming-virus-outbreak-center-232425758.html Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America’s largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world's pandemic hot spots. Medical officials in Rio de Janeiro and at least four other major cities have warned that their hospital systems are on the verge of collapse, or already too overwhelmed to take any more patients. Health experts expect the number of infections in the country of 211 million people will be much higher than what has been reported because of insufficient, delayed testing. Meanwhile, President Jair Bolsonaro has shown no sign of wavering from his insistence that COVID-19 is a relatively minor disease and that broad social-distancing measures are not needed to stop it. He has said only Brazilians at high risk should be isolated. In Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon, officials said a cemetery has been forced to dig mass graves because there have been so many deaths. Workers have been burying 100 corpses a day — triple the pre-virus average of burials. Ytalo Rodrigues, a 20-year-old driver for a funerary service provider in Manaus, said he had retrieved one body after another for more than 36 hours, without a break. There were so many deaths, his employer had to add a second hearse, Rodrigues said. So far, the health ministry has confirmed nearly 53,000 COVID-19 cases and more than 3,600 deaths. By official counts, the country had its worst day yet on Thursday, with about 3,700 new cases and more than 400 deaths, and Friday was nearly as grim. Experts warned that paltry testing means the true number of infections is far greater. And because it can take a long time for tests to be processed, the current numbers actually reflect deaths that happened one or two weeks ago, said Domingos Alves, adjunct professor of social medicine at the University of Sao Paulo, who is involved in the project. (More info about Brazil's complete failure at url above)