Brazil was never the model.. I hardly even discussed Brazil. 3rd world countries with different care infrastructure and living conditions are very different. Everywhere I have looked where you have high density living conditions multigenerational homes and old or fat people there seems to be serious problems. Then perhaps you add darker skin and hence the need for more Vitamin D. Lack of social distancing... Plus I have no idea what their diet is like. Are there a lot of food induced fat and pre diabetic people there?
This Covidiot will be up for re-elections in October 2022. If the Pandemic worsens (gets slammed by variants of Covid / poor vaccine distribution) continues into 2022... He's going to be on the losing end of re-election like Trump. Rioting and Protests will be the early warning sign. wrbtrader
A President and his supporters attacking scientists. Sounds a lot like Trump. ‘A hostile environment.’ Brazilian scientists face rising attacks from Bolsonaro’s regime https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ntists-face-rising-attacks-bolsonaro-s-regime
Let's see what the President is doing in the no-lockdown paradise known as Brazil... Bolsonaro again refuses lockdown as Brazil COVID crisis drags on Authorities in Sao Paulo say they plan to open a ‘vertical cemetery’ to handle continuing surge in coronavirus deaths. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021...refuses-lockdown-brazil-covid-crisis-drags-on
Let's see what is happening in "death central" COVID paradise Brazil today... WHO Warns on Brazil COVID-19 Outbreak as Bolsonaro Blasts Senate Inquiry https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...9-outbreak-as-bolsonaro-blasts-senate-inquiry Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday blasted a pending Senate inquiry on his handling of a record-breaking COVID-19 outbreak, which global health officials compared to a "raging inferno." Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso ruled late on Thursday that enough senators had signed on to a proposed inquiry on the government's pandemic response to launch the probe despite stalling by Senate leadership. "It's a stitch-up between Barroso and the leftists in the Senate to wear out the government," Bolsonaro told supporters outside his residence, accusing the judge of "politicking." A Senate investigation represents the most severe political consequence to date for Bolsonaro's approach to the coronavirus, which he compared to a "little flu" last year as he ignored health experts calling for mask wearing and social distance. Bolsonaro has backed off his criticism of COVID-19 vaccines, but he continues to attack governors attempting lockdowns and even milder measures, accusing them without proof of killing more with those restrictions than the virus itself. COVID-19 has taken more than 345,000 lives in Brazil, second only to the United States. One in four deaths from the pandemic this week were in Brazil, where a brutal wave is overwhelming hospitals and setting records of more than 4,000 deaths per day. "What you are dealing with here is a raging inferno of an outbreak," said Bruce Aylward, senior adviser to the director general of the World Health Organization, in a public briefing. Yet fatigue and political pressure from Bolsonaro have pushed some governors to ease restrictions despite record deaths. The state of Sao Paulo, whose governor has been a critic of the president, announced that it was loosening some restrictions next week even as its hospitals struggle to manage case loads. Sao Paulo officials said a downtick in hospitalizations had justified the decision to restart soccer matches without spectators, reopen stores selling building materials and resume take-out service at restaurants.
Let's see what the former President of Brazil is saying about the no-lockdown advocates vision of paradise. Bolsonaro’s ‘genocidal’ Covid response has led to Brazilian catastrophe, Dilma Rousseff says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/brazil-bolsonaro-dilma-rousseff-coronavirus-crisis Former president tells Guardian Brazil faces perhaps gravest moment in its history and is ‘adrift on an ocean of hunger and disease’ Jair Bolsonaro’s perverse and “genocidal” response to one of the world’s deadliest Covid outbreaks has left Brazil “adrift on an ocean of hunger and disease”, the country’s former president Dilma Rousseff has claimed. Speaking to the Guardian this week – as Brazil’s coronavirus death toll hit devastating new heights, with more than 12,000 deaths in the last three days – Rousseff said her country faced perhaps the gravest moment in its history. “We are living through an extremely dramatic situation in Brazil because we have no government, no stewardship of the crisis,” said Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who was president for just over five years until her controversial 2016 impeachment. “We are seeing 4,200 deaths per day now and everything suggests that if nothing changes we’ll reach 5,000 … Yet there is an absolutely repulsive normalization ofthis reality under way. How can you normalize the 4,211 deaths registered [on Tuesday]?” Rousseff asked as Brazil’s official death toll rose to over 345,000, second only to the US. Brazil’s first female president, like a growing number of citizens, believes much of the blame lay with Bolsonaro, a far-right populist whose anti-scientific response to what he calls a “little flu” has made him an international bogeyman. Opinion polls and pot-banging protests suggest growing public anger at the Trump-admiring politician who was elected in 2018 after Rousseff’s mentor, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was jailed and prevented from running by a judge who later joined Bolsonaro’s cabinet. Rousseff claimed Bolsonaro’s sabotaging of containment and vaccination efforts, refusal to order a lockdown and failure to offer adequate economic support to the poor had contributed to a tragedy of “catastrophic proportions”. “I’m not saying Brazil wouldn’t have suffered deaths [with a different response] – all countries did,” she said. “I’m saying that part of the level of deaths here is fundamentally down to incorrect political decisions, which are still being taken.” Brazil’s breakdown was also an international threat. “The absence of an effective fight against the pandemic [in Brazil] leads to something extremely serious: the emergence of the so-called new variants, which are highly infectious and have increased the number of deaths in neighbouring countries,” Rousseff said, pointing to how South American neighbours were closing their borders for fear of the more contagious P1 variant linked to Brazil’s Amazon. Many critics now argue Bolsonaro’s actions amount to “genocide” – and Rousseff said she was among them. “I use that word. What characterizes the act of genocide is when you play a deliberate role in the death of a population on a massive scale,” the 73-year-old said from her home in Porto Alegre, one of many cities where hospitals have been overwhelmed and doctors forced to play God. “It’s not the word [genocide] that interests me – it’s the concept. And the concept is this: responsibility for deaths that could have been avoided.” On Thursday, Brazil’s supreme court ordered a congressional investigation into the government’s conduct – a shock move that experts called a major blow to Bolsonaro, who still enjoys the support of about a third of voters but faces record levels of rejection. Brazil’s disaster – which is being turbocharged by the P1 variant – is expected to deepen further in the coming days. More than 66,000 Brazilian lives were lost to Covid in March. April’s death toll is expected to exceed 100,000. On Friday the World Health Organization senior adviser Bruce Aylward called the outbreak “a raging inferno”. “It’s desperate. To be honest, I can’t sleep properly. I go to bed with these numbers and simulations in my head and I just can’t think straight,” said Miguel Nicolelis, a prominent scientist whose grim projections about the outbreak have repeatedly been confirmed. “The US had one day with more than 5,000 deaths and we’re going to overtake the US – in the number of daily deaths and probably in the total number of fatalities too,” Nicolelis predicted. “We’re going to start seeing bodies piling up in our health clinics and people dying in the streets soon in the biggest city in Brazil,” he said of São Paulo, calling for a one-month nationwide lockdown and the closure of roads, airports and rivers. Rousseff also urged an immediate shutdown, although Bolsonaro has repeatedly rejected that idea, apparently fearing it would cripple the economy and his hopes of re-election in 2022. “There will be no nationwide lockdown,” Bolsonaro insisted during a trip to southern Brazil this week. Speaking outside his residence on Tuesday, Bolsonaro, 66, shrugged off criticism. “[I’ve been called] homophobic, racist, fascist, a torturer … Now I’m genocidal,” he smirked. “Is there anything I’m not to blame for in Brazil?” Rousseff agreed Bolsonaro was not the only culprit for the Covid calamity shaking her country, and the world. She also blamed the economic elites, military chiefs, media moguls and politicians who helped the rightwing extremist win power by backing her removal from office and then cheering Lula’s downfall and Bolsonaro’s rise. World leaders including Donald Trump had also handled the pandemic disastrously. “People will have to be held responsible for the catastrophe that has been engineered in Brazil,” Rousseff said, charting its current tribulations back to her suspension from office exactly five years ago for allegedly manipulating the budget to mask economic malaise. “Bolsonaro is a product of this … original sin: the impeachment,” she said of what her supporters call a politically – driven “coup”. On Sunday 16 April 2016, Bolsonaro, then an obscure congressman, was one of 367 deputies who approved Rousseff’s impeachment during an unruly session in which he dedicated his vote to a dictatorship-era torturer who oversaw the abuse of leftist rebels such as her. Back then, Rousseff said she had never imagined Bolsonaro would one day become president. Nor could she envisage Brazil facing today’s emergency under more inadequate leadership. “The reality is worse than anything I could have possibly imagined. It’s as if we’re adrift. We are adrift on an ocean of hunger and disease … It truly is an utterly extreme situation that we’re witnessing in Brazil.”
Not sure the world is ready yet for lectures on how to govern from Dilma Rousseff- you have to be pretty corrupt to be impeached and removed in Brazil, but somehow she managed. In any case, her old buddy Lula is running against Bolsonaro in 2020 and she is supporting him, hoping that his corrupt arse will be elected and then he will appoint her corrupt arse to some corrupt position and she will be back in business. So her shots at Bolsonaro are part of the opening salvos in that campaign. Not saying that Bolsonaro is not properly subject to criticism on the lockdown/covid issues. Just saying I see her gig. Dilma to the left and Lula to the right. Yeh, they are tighter than a bull's arse at flyswatting time.
Bolsonaro is allowing the COVID virus to run wild in Brazil, just like DeSantis is doing in Florida. Let's see the results as the virus is free to evolve into new variants. Coronavirus: Brazil variant mutating, becoming more dangerous - study The changes could make the virus more resistant to vaccines. https://www.jpost.com/health-scienc...mutating-becoming-more-dangerous-study-665139 Brazil's P1 coronavirus variant, behind a deadly COVID-19 surge in the Latin American country that has raised international alarm, is mutating in ways that could make it better able to evade antibodies, according to scientists studying the virus. Research conducted by the public health institute Fiocruz into the variants circulating in Brazil found mutations in the spike region of the virus that is used to enter and infect cells. Those changes, the scientists said, could make the virus more resistant to vaccines - which target the spike protein - with potentially grave implications for the severity of the outbreak in Latin America's most populous nation. "We believe it's another escape mechanism the virus is creating to evade the response of antibodies," said Felipe Naveca, one of the authors of the study and part of Fiocruz in the Amazon city of Manaus, where the P1 variant is believed to have originated. Naveca said the changes appeared to be similar to the mutations seen in the even more aggressive South African variant, against which studies have shown some vaccines have substantially reduced efficacy. "This is particularly worrying because the virus is continuing to accelerate in its evolution," he added. Studies have shown the P1 variant to be as much as 2.5 times more contagious than the original coronavirus and more resistant to antibodies. On Tuesday, France suspended all flights to and from Brazil in a bid to prevent the variant's spread as Latin America's largest economy becomes increasingly isolated. The variant, which has quickly become dominant in Brazil, is thought to be a large factor behind a massive second wave that has brought the country's death toll to over 350,000 - the second highest in the world behind the United States. Brazil's outbreak is also increasingly affecting younger people, with hospital data showing that in March more than half of all patients in intensive care were aged 40 or younger. For Ester Sabino, a scientist at the faculty of medicine of the University of Sao Paulo who led the first genome sequencing of the coronavirus in Brazil, the mutations of the P1 variant are not surprising given the fast pace of transmission. "If you have a high level of transmission, like you have in Brazil at the moment, your risk of new mutations and variants increases," she said. So far vaccines, such as those developed by AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, have proven effective against the Brazilian variant but Sabino said further mutations could put that at risk.
Let's check-in with the no-lockdown paradise envisioned by jem where the virus is allowed to run free across the population. Healthcare collapse imminent, Brazil's Sao Paulo warns, as COVID-19 cases surge https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...-paulo-warns-covid-19-cases-surge-2021-04-14/ Brazil's richest and most populous state, Sao Paulo, has warned its ability to care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients is on the verge of collapse as it runs perilously low on key drugs, according to a letter to the federal government seen by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. Sao Paulo state said it expects to run out of crucial intubation drugs, needed to sedate patients, in the next few days, the paper reported on Wednesday. "The supply situation regarding drugs, mainly neuromuscular blockers and sedatives, is very serious," Sao Paulo Health Secretary Jean Gorinchteyn wrote in the letter. "Collapse is imminent," he said. Gorinchteyn confirmed the letter in a news conference on Wednesday, telling reporters: "we need the federal government to help us." The situation in Sao Paulo, which has one of Brazil's most sophisticated public hospital networks, is a dire indication of the strain on Brazil's healthcare system. A new survey by biomedical institute Fiocruz through April 10 found that 86% of beds in intensive care units (ICUs) in Sao Paulo are full. Nearly all of Brazil has ICUs suffering critical capacity shortages and 10 out of 26 Brazilian states have occupancy over 95%, the data shows. Fiocruz said the data indicates there is still a high rate of transmission in the country and that "the pandemic will remain at worrying levels throughout the month of April." Brazil for several weeks has had some of the worst COVID-19 death tolls in the world, accounting for about a quarter of daily deaths attributed to the virus worldwide. read more Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus: open https://tmsnrt.rs/2FThSv7 in an external browser. President Jair Bolsonaro has been widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic, including downplaying the disease's severity, promoting dubious treatments and repeatedly opposing social-distancing measures. Experts say his handling of the outbreak has encouraged the virus to run rampant, increasing the likelihood of mutations, such as the P.1 variant, which has raised alarms worldwide. Scientists studying the virus in Brazil found the P.1 variant is already mutating in ways that could make it better able to evade antibodies. read more Brazil's vaccination rollout also lags those of other large economies and has been plagued by dysfunction. read more On Wednesday, Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) would increase deliveries of its coronavirus vaccine to 15.5 million doses in the second quarter, up from a previous estimate of 13.5 million.
The COVID-deniers promoted nonsense like the "Great Barrington Declaration" urging that we allow COVID to run wild over society while making claims that COVID does not harm children. Let's take a look at reality in the best example of their "no lockdown" paradise, Brazil. Babies dying from Covid in Brazil as ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ hits country Médecins Sans Frontières says country has been plunged into ‘permanent state of mourning’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-babies-dying-covid-b1832652.html As some countries look towards an end to the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil is facing an ever-worsening crisis, with overwhelmed health systems and a soaring death toll leading to a significant number of babies dying from Covid-19. The South American country’s seven-day rolling average for deaths reached more than 3,000 this month, as the medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that a “humanitarian catastrophe” was unfolding due to government mismanagement of the pandemic. Dr Christos Christou, MSF’s international president, said far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro’s government had all but refused to introduce “evidence-based comprehensive public health guidelines”. “This has put Brazil into a permanent state of mourning and led to the near collapse of Brazil’s health system,” Dr Christou said. He added that the country’s response needed an “urgent, science-based and well-coordinated reset to prevent further avoidable deaths”. Earlier this week, Dr Fatima Marinho, a senior adviser to the health NGO Vital Strategies, told the BBC that there had been an alarmingly high number of children and babies affected by the virus in Brazil. (More at above url)