World's Worst Covid Crisis Unfolds In Brazil, Where No Fix Works

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) -- More than a year after a spiked virus launched a murderous campaign across the globe, most countries have put the worst behind them, aided by aggressive government policies and vaccines.

Not Brazil.

The continent-sized nation of 212 million is facing more Covid deaths and cases than ever, its hospitals overflowing, its policy in disarray, its vaccine supply severely limited. In addition to a president who scoffs at the disease, rejects masks and leaves each state on its own, the country plays host to a variant that’s more contagious and possibly deadlier.

Nothing better illustrates the bizarrely fractured nature of Brazil’s Covid policies — and how they’ve sowed confusion and anger and suffering — than three cities along a 140-mile roadway in the state of Sao Paulo, where three distinct approaches to the pandemic coexist. In one, practically anything goes; in another, it’s full lockdown; and in a third, mass vaccination is underway. Each is a mess, overrun by rampant illness and mired in a deep economic funk that shows no signs of ending anytime soon. ............(more)

Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/coronavirus-crisis-in-brazil-deepens-as-covid-variant-spreads-and-deaths-spike

[roamer65]

1. Brazil's problem summed up in one word.

Bolsonaro.

[Takket]

2. Elect a clown, get a circus

[Initech]

3. Look at Bolsonaro. Now imagine if Trump had been elected for a second term.

Yeah that's what our future and present would look like.