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Post by Jaga on Mar 20, 2021 20:10:29 GMT -7
Brazilian president is just simply awful. I start to believe that many people at the positions of power are either psychopaths or sociopaths. Brazil lost more than 0.1% of its population due to Covid and they still have the highest rate to population number. Here is the article: No vaccines, no leadership, no end in sight. How Brazil became a global threatwww.cnn.com/2021/03/20/americas/brazil-coronavirus-crisis-vaccine-distribution-shortfalls-latam-intl/index.htmlRio de Janeiro, Brazil (CNN)The temperature read 95 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, but the humidity made it feel worse. Amid the stifling late summer Rio de Janeiro heat, Silvia Silva Santos steadied her 77-year-old mother as they walked toward the clinic gate. "We've already come here twice but she hasn't managed to get a vaccine," said Silva Santos. "She just stands in line and then there's no more vaccines and we have to leave." At the gate, Silva Santos asked the guard if she could get her mother a vaccine. Keenly aware of CNN cameras watching, he quickly ushered her in. About five minutes later, the pair came back out, bad news written on their faces. "I think this is very wrong," said Silva Santos, clearly angry and frustrated. "Now we'll have to find out again when they'll have vaccines and you never know when." That frustration rippled through the elderly crowd as person after person was denied a first dose of a vaccine, after the state of Rio de Janeiro suspended its vaccination campaign because it had run out of vaccine supplies. "This is a disaster, a total disaster," a woman told CNN after being denied her vaccine. "Who is to blame for all this? I think our leaders, our politicians suck." ...
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Post by Jaga on Mar 20, 2021 20:11:06 GMT -7
In the last 10 days, about a quarter of all coronavirus deaths worldwide have been recorded in Brazil, according to CNN analysis. ... President Jair Bolsonaro, a Covid-19 skeptic who has mocked the efficacy of vaccines and hasn't publicly taken one himself, announced Thursday that he would be taking legal action against certain states in the country's Supreme Court, claiming the only person who can decree curfews is him -- something he has promised never to do. Despite thousands of people dying from the virus each day, he claims the real threat is from the economic harm virus-prompted restrictions can impose. Millions of his supporters are following his lead, openly flaunting local regulations of social distancing and mask wearing.
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