Photos: The Coronavirus in Brazil

[Celerity]

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/05/photos-coronavirus-brazil/611608/

As of today, Brazil has reported 180,737 (update, it is now 203,165) cases of COVID-19, and a total of 12,635 deaths—with thousands of new cases recorded just yesterday. One physician in São Paulo said he feared the country might become “the next epicenter of the pandemic.” Brazilians are coping with the coronavirus outbreak in multiple ways: sending medical workers out into favelas to meet with patients at home, encouraging residents to wear masks and practice social distancing, setting up field hospitals, and volunteering to help those in need. Samba school members who would normally be sewing costumes for Carnival are sewing masks and scrubs for medical staff. Below are images from across Brazil over the recent weeks, as residents struggle with the COVID-19 outbreak and its wide-reaching effects.

a selection, more at the link

[sheshe2]

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[Demovictory9]

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[babylonsister]

2. I read awhile ago Brazil would be a disaster.

awhile ago=2 weeks?

Didn't their prez or emperor or whatever walk around hugging people?

[CatWoman]

3. yep

the latin trump.


only thing he's missing is the ridiculous hair

[peacebuzzard]

4. Brazil covid19 cases are climbing a steep bell curve

steep. almost vertical.
Tragedy in every urban center and the stupid prez is a jackass.
Thinks he's a macho man, that the old need to be isolated and everyone else needs to work.
He has fired the Minister of Health, Dismissed the head of the Federal Police in Rio and immediately the Minister of Justice resigned over this overstep.
When journalists questioned Bolsonaro he flailed, sputtered and yelled at the journalist pool to shut up.

This is a scandalous current event since the Minister of Justice Sergio Moro is respected and has a wide base of support.

Lack of PPE, this pres has no respect for masks, social distancing, wants everything open. sounds familiar.

this is like a repeat of the US scene but on steroids and in a distant, steaming, tropical land.

**on edit, thanks for posting the images from the article. I used to travel there almost every ten days or so for my job, my last trip there was mid-March. I freaked out while there, on the plane, I had a deep sense of dread. I have been at home ever since.

[Quixote1818]

5. Yep, Prz is a jackass and I remember early on him saying they weren't going to do anything

I think the Mexican President also said they weren't going to do anything so I expect Mexico to be in bad shape before long too.

[peacebuzzard]

7. the two giant latin countries

are on a really tough trajectory, its unimaginable for most of us here in the U.S. just how devastating this disease will impact the underdeveloped nations and the masses of the underprivileged trying desperately to survive.