We’re publishing a third postcard from our Brazilian correspondent today in which he explains that infections, hospitalisations and deaths are declining across Brazil, in spite of President Bolsonaro’s stubborn refusal to lock down in the face of overwhelming pressure. Which is just as well, says our correspondent, because it’s impossible to lock down the population of Brazil. Here’s an extract:
Bolsonaro may be an ass, he may be an environmental disaster, he might be far too close to criminals, and he might be a little too fond of hydroxychloroquine, but you gotta say it… the man has balls.
If a new variant, rapidly rising deaths, overstretched hospitals, travel bans, and international condemnation from the pro-lockdown crowd wasn’t going to lead to a lockdown, nothing ever would.
In Brazil, lockdown will never work, of course. And the funny thing is: everyone knows it. The media, the state governors, the scientists… everyone. Their demands are strictly political. This is a country where the vast majority of people work in the informal economy and can’t stay home, and an even larger proportion will simply do what they like anyway and dare the police to enforce it, who can’t and won’t. The super rich, who run the country, wouldn’t take kindly to being stopped from jetting off to Mexico, or Dubai, or the Maldives, or Miami. At one point, some small town Brazilian mayors put up fences on popular beaches to discourage mixing. Brazilian holidaymakers ripped them down and set up on the sand en masse.
The state governors, too, know the futility of lockdown, even as they scream for one. How do we know? Because they won’t impose lockdowns in their own states. They know such measures would be unenforceable and devastating… for them at the polls, as well as for the local economy, so they instead come up with the weakest restrictions possible, just enough to say they are doing something, and then blame the Government for why they can’t do more. The whole thing is a farcical game.
Worth reading in full.
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I hope he’s got very good personal minders.
Amazingly flexible guy, managed to shoot himself in the back of the head… wow.
That’s nothing to where Bozo keeps shooting himself, and the country!
How could President Bolsonaro not destroy the lives of his own people? Covid19 has an IFR of 0.15%, just like regular flu, which has disappeared, making Covid19 the greatest health crisis mankind has ever faced. Why aren’t the people of Brazil begging for lockdown? Haven’t they seen all the Brits queueing up for their Tesco and jabbing and masking their kids and thinking “yes please gimme some of that good stuff” How can President Bolsonaro not be following Humanity’s finest, Gods of knowledge and human health like Professor Chris Whitty and all the crew at Oxford University. Here they are in action, helping to screw up the world for all of mankind: Chris Whitty: Pandemic outlook remains ‘pretty bleak’ https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/chris-whitty-pandemic-outlook-remains-pretty-bleak/ar-BB1gr1sJ Speaking at a Royal Society online event about Covid-19 on Thursday, Prof Whitty said: “In the medium term, the outlook still looks pretty bleak around the world. “I would really reiterate that until we have got a situation where we have induced immunity in those who are most vulnerable everywhere in the world, we will continue to see really significant morbidity and mortality from this virus.” He added: “In the long term I do expect that this will become a… Read more »
“How can President Bolsonaro not be following Humanity’s finest” because he’s a TOP MAN and a proper leader. Unlike our weak, selfish, corrupt, lily livered lot.
Bom dia Brasil, posso ter asilo?
you see… in the end it is the people that decide….I lived in Brazil and know what it is like. Brazilians wont have it… it is us Europeans who are like little domesticated puppy dogs without balls and as we will soon see, we are going to have to get our hands a bit more dirty to get out of this one.
We need a few thousand Brazilians here; lets exchange some of the mask wearing Stockholm syndrome weaklings for them.
There are two leaders in the firing line Modi and Bolsonaro. Both nationalists not given to playing the globalists tune. So all and every possible piece of excrement will be thrown at them. Personally I do not know enough about them to have an opinion. But they were voted in power as legitimately as any other so its its up the their nations if they want them. But not for the globalists, they are enemies and have to be attacked for their covid policies as well as anything else. For this reason and this reason only I hope they survive and see off their enemies.
Especially now Trump is out of office.
So who is going to have the temerity to call a whole nation of people ‘selfish’ and how many are going to stop and think that that whole nation might just be listening to the truth coming from their instincts?
Brilliant piece. Thanks for the update. It made my day. Long live the scepticism of the Brazilian people.