I don't care about Cuomo accepting responsibility. I care about making policy when the CFR is based on flawed data. Which is what we did. Another way to look at the 5.88% to 4% (your math, I didn't check it) is that it happened in like, two months. Watch what it is at the end of this year.
Agreed. While they are still very high, they don't continue to "skyrocket". This is just sensationalist headlines. Again.
Japan completely locked down but called it by another name under their national emergency order. I posted articles describing the measures taken in Japan driven by social and community pressure. Their lockdown was much more stringent than anything in the U.S.
Coronavirus: Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive BBC - https://tinyurl.com/y7pgpto2 He took the test, his fourth, on Monday after developing symptoms, including a high temperature. Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly played down risks of what he has called the "little flu", saying he would not be seriously affected. He has opposed lockdowns, which he says hurt the economy. Brazil has the second-highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the world, after the US. What did Mr Bolsonaro say? He made the announcement in a TV interview on Tuesday, saying the fever he had been experiencing had gone down and that he felt "very well". Mr Bolsonaro said that he had started experiencing symptoms on Sunday. He said he had had a high temperature, a cough and had felt unwell. He added that on Monday he had felt worse, which prompted him to take the coronavirus test. Mr Bolsonaro is in a higher-risk group because of his age, 65. He said he was taking hydroxychloroquine - championed by US President Donald Trump - and azithromycin, an antibiotic, to treat the illness. Neither has been proven to be effective against the virus. Contact tracing and tests will be carried out for the people Mr Bolsonaro has met recently. His previous three tests for the virus all came back negative. The executive director of the World Health Organization, Dr Mike Ryan, wished President Bolsonaro "a speedy and full recovery from this disease", adding: "I think the message to us all is: we are vulnerable to this virus." What had he previously said? Back in April, Mr Bolsonaro said that even if infected, he would "not have to worry as I wouldn't feel anything, at most it would be like a little flu or a little cold". The number of Covid-19-related deaths and infections - at that time under 3,000 and 40,000 - has since soared. Despite this, President Bolsonaro has argued that regional lockdowns are having a more damaging effect than the virus itself, and accused the media of spreading panic and paranoia. His other comments on the virus include: 11 March:"From what I have seen until now, there are other kinds of flu which have killed more people than that [coronavirus] one" 18 March: "Today we have information, that because we have a more tropical climate [in Brazil] we've almost reached the end [of the pandemic], or it's already over... the virus doesn't spread as fast in warm climates like ours" 20 March: "After being stabbed, I'm not going to be brought down by a little flu" He has since continued to rail against measures that he deems "dictatorial" such as the closing beaches or requirements to wear face coverings. On Monday, he made further changes to a law that would require Brazilians to wear masks in public. He has attended a number of public events without a mask, even when local rules required him to wear one. On Sunday, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo posted a photo on social media showing himself with President Bolsonaro and others attending an Independence Day celebration at the US embassy in Brasilia. None of those in the photo is wearing a mask or observing social distancing. (More at above url)
Gets covid-19, immediately changes rules to everyone requires masks. Says he is fine, probably mainlining covid recovered blood and all the best drugs.
Note he watered-down the law requiring face masks ---- making it next to meaningless. Coronavirus: Brazil's Bolsonaro waters down law requiring face masks BBC - https://tinyurl.com/y9whsxmk Brazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro, has sanctioned a law making the use of masks in public obligatory during the coronavirus pandemic. However, he has vetoed their use in shops, churches and schools. In a social media broadcast, Mr Bolsonaro said people could have been fined for not wearing a mask at home. He has refused to acknowledge the gravity of Brazil's Covid-19 outbreak, despite it having the world's second-highest numbers of cases and deaths. The virus has infected almost 1.5 million people and killed 61,884 there since late February, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University. (More at above url)
The Trump of South America... Brazil’s president, infected with virus, touts malaria drug https://apnews.com/f761b0a592f8e4083c4e64d816359eb4 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is infected with the coronavirus, on Wednesday defended his government’s handling of the pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of Brazilians and touted his use of a contentious anti-malaria drug. Bolsonaro posted a photo of himself eating breakfast on Facebook, and a message that said his government provided payouts to informal sector laborers, thereby saving jobs and lives without spreading panic about the pandemic. The nation’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 is the second highest in the world after the United States. “No country in the world did it like Brazil,” Bolsonaro said. “For those who root against hydroxychloroquine, but don’t present alternatives, I regret to inform you that I’m very well with its use and, with God’s grace, I will live for a long time still.” Bolsonaro said Tuesday that he tested positive for the virus, after months of downplaying its severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country. He repeatedly touted chloroquine, a more toxic version of the anti-malarial drug. A string of studies in Britain and the United States, as well as by the World Health Organization, have found it ineffective and sometimes deadly because of its effects on the heart. Several studies were canceled early because of that. The president told reporters he underwent a lung X-ray on Monday after experiencing fever, muscle aches and malaise. As of Tuesday, his fever had subsided, he said, and he attributed the improvement to hydroxychloroquine. He stepped back from the journalists and removed his mask at one point to show that he looked well. The 65-year-old right-wing populist who has been known to mingle in crowds without covering his face confirmed the results while wearing a mask and speaking to reporters huddled close in front of him in the capital, Brasilia. “I’m, well, normal. I even want to take a walk around here, but I can’t due to medical recommendations,” Bolsonaro said. Later Tuesday, he posted a video to Facebook of him taking his third dose of hydroxychloroquine, which has also been promoted by President Donald Trump. Brazil, the world’s sixth-biggest nation, with more than 210 million people, is one of the outbreak’s most lethal hot spots. More than 65,000 Brazilians have died from COVID-19, and over 1.5 million have been infected. The true figures are believed to be higher because of a lack of widespread testing. On Tuesday alone, 1,254 deaths were confirmed. Other world leaders who have had bouts with COVID-19 include British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince Albert II of Monaco and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. Bolsonaro is “the democratic leader who has most denied the seriousness of this pandemic,” said Maurício Santoro, a political science professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. “Him getting infected is a blow to his credibility. It will be seen as another example of the failure of his coronavirus response.” Bolsonaro has often appeared in public to shake hands with supporters and mingle with crowds, at times without a mask. He has said that his history as an athlete would protect him from the virus and that it would be nothing more than a “little flu” if he were to contract it. He has also repeatedly said that there is no way to prevent 70% of the population falling ill with COVID-19 and that local authorities’ efforts to shut down economic activity would ultimately cause more hardship than allowing the virus to run its course. For nearly two months, Brazil’s fight against COVID-19 has been in the hands of an interim health minister with no health experience before April. He took over after his predecessor, a doctor and health care consultant, quit in protest over Bolsonaro’s support for hydroxychloroquine. Brazilian cities and states last month began lifting restrictions that had been imposed to control the spread of the virus, as deaths began to decline along with the caseload in intensive care units. Bolsonaro supporter Silas Ribeiro said on the streets of Rio that the president is correct in saying the dangers of the virus have been exaggerated. “Our president is a popular man. He is showing that he isn’t afraid to die,” said Ribeiro, 59. “He is going to have health and get through this sickness.” Speaking near recently reopened shops in Rio, Wesley Morielo said he hopes Bolsonaro’s sickness prompts him to reassess his stance. “I think everything he said before, of not giving importance to COVID-19, came back against him,″ said Morielo, a 24-year-old student. The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief, Dr. Michael Ryan, wished Bolsonaro a speedy recovery and said his infection “brings home the reality of this virus” by showing that it doesn’t distinguish between “prince or pauper.” Bolsonaro has repeatedly visited the hospital since taking office, requiring several operations to repair his intestines after he was stabbed on the campaign trail in 2018. He said he canceled a trip this week to Brazil’s northeast region and will continue working via videoconference and receive rare visitors when he needs to sign a document. Unlike Britain’s prime minister, who moderated his rhetoric after testing positive for the virus, Bolsonaro will probably not change his stance, said Leandro Consentino, a political science professor at Insper, a university in Sao Paulo. “He’s going down a path of trying to indicate to his base of support that COVID-19 is just a little flu and take advantage of the illness to advertise for chloroquine,” Consentino said.