"What am I not blamed for here in Brazil?" Bolsonaro asked rhetorically in the video.
Isn't he... the leader of the country...? 🤔
"What am I not blamed for here in Brazil?" Bolsonaro asked rhetorically in the video.
Around 30% of the population still seems to support him in spite of everything based on recent polls.
Around 30% of the population still seems to support him in spite of everything based on recent polls.
That is, legitimately, the worst part in all of this. I have no idea when I'll get my shot (even if I'm on a "priority" list for medical reasons), my wife even less so and my dad (who's 74, and has Alzheimer's and some other kinds of comorbidity) is still waiting for his, too - there's just no way I can take him to a vaccination site, since he won't even wear a mask at home.That fucking scum can continue to and perhaps even escalate the amount of damage he is doing in that time.
Fucking hell. This far into it, how can anyone -- especially someone in charge of running a country -- be this cavalier about COVID? Horrific situation.
You know what's incredibly awful?
That despite the shockingly high amount of deaths related to Covid-19 and mismanagement from the pandemic from this fascist piece of shit, he still has thousands and thousands of supporters who don't care or will make any excuse for him.
Hey, at least he's doing worse than Trump.Around 30% of the population still seems to support him in spite of everything based on recent polls.
That is, legitimately, the worst part in all of this. I have no idea when I'll get my shot (even if I'm on a "priority" list for medical reasons), my wife even less so and my dad (who's 74, and has Alzheimer's and some other kinds of comorbidity) is still waiting for his, too - there's just no way I can take him to a vaccination site, since he won't even wear a mask at home.
We're all just toughing it out, hoping to stay alive long enough.
One of them is no longer in office, and the other is presiding over one of the world's most protracted lockdowns. Boris changed his tune about COVID, and while Trump never did, he got voted out largely because of his COVID response. Bolsonaro is still in power and still denying even the most basic facts about the pandemic. He's way more damaging than those other two managed to be, on balance.
He can, but he won't because congress doesn't give a shit enough to do so since they still get their bribes.
But it's not just that more people are dying — it's that patients are now arriving far sicker. The patient profile is also changing. Younger people are needing more intensive care — and dying at higher rates.
The mortality rate among patients aged 18-45 has positively soared, according to a nationwide survey by the Brazilian Association of Intensive Medicine. https://t.co/CoYAT520bl
But the mortality rate has risen among all patients, too. Nearly 73 percent of patients on mechanics ventilators are now dying, compared with 60 percent at the beginning of the pandemic. https://t.co/GFO0Ti0yXt
Half of patients — half! — younger than 45 put on a mechanical ventilator now aren't making it. https://t.co/31xAxvkueK
He's always come across as a sociopath even before he became President. This interview he had with Stephen Fry gave me chills at the time. I had no idea at time that he'd go onto become President.
Yes, but the hope is that the mRNA based vaccine platforms mean Pfizer and Moderna can re-code vaccines in short order to compensate for these mutations (though if we wanted to clinically trial them, that would create major delays).If the P1 spreads world wide - and I don't think we can really control this as the last year has shown - won't we have a virtual reset to times before the vaccines? I read they will be faster in combating new variants, but that sounds... not so great to say the least.
Wow. That's horrific. If you adjust for population sizes that's the equivalent of 6500 a day in the US, which is almost 50% higher than the US reached (4480). That's terrifying.
And this is why what we should have done in the beginning is stamp out international travel. One of the reasons why the last Global Pandemic the Spanish Flu died out because people could not just travel around the world as easy thus leading to less infections and less mutations. Covid has not only more people it can infect because we have a larger population in 2021 compared to 1919, but more of the world can easily get infected because of ease of travel.If the P1 spreads world wide - and I don't think we can really control this as the last year has shown - won't we have a virtual reset to times before the vaccines? I read they will be faster in combating new variants, but that sounds... not so great to say the least.
And this is why what we should have done in the beginning is stamp out international travel. One of the reasons why the last Global Pandemic the Spanish Flu died out because people could not just travel around the world as easy thus leading to less infections and less mutations. Covid has not only more people it can infect because we have a larger population in 2021 compared to 1919, but more of the world can easily get infected because of ease of travel.
In the Brazilian case, there isn't any good things for him to take credit forNo see, a leader of a country only takes credit for GOOD things that happen.
P1 variant not only is much more infectious and likely causes more severe disease, but seems to be escaping vaccination and natural immunity as well.
You're right and I appreciate the data too. I think the concerns about repeat infection and potential vaccine resistance come out of Manaus in Brazil that had enormous first and second wave infection rates developing huge P1 problems when researchers felt it should have had sufficient population immunity from prior infection to prevent it.The best scientific evidence we have about vaccine efficacy on the Brazilian variant is the Johnson & Johnson Phase III trial. It showed similar vaccine efficacy in Brazil vs the US.
Efficacy in Brazil was slightly lower for preventing moderate disease and slightly higher for preventing severe disease, but in both cases the difference was not statistically significant.
And as usual, I should mention it was 100% effective against death for all variants.
You're right and I appreciate the data too. I think the concerns about repeat infection and potential vaccine resistance come out of Manaus in Brazil that had enormous first and second wave infection rates developing huge P1 problems when researchers felt it should have had sufficient population immunity from prior infection to prevent it.
do we know from the J&J trial whether P1 was prevalent there during the trial?
Do we have any solid data on reinfections? Last time I searched, numbers seemed very low. This is relevant to me cause I had covid last year.P.2 would have been the most prevalent in Brazil at that time. If you want to project effectiveness against P.1, it might be better to start with the South African data. P.1 shares almost the same set of spike protein binding domain mutations as B.1.351, and that variant made up 90%+ of cases in South Africa.
Regarding the observations in Manaus, what makes me a little skeptical is the fact that it is all based on projections using antibody levels from blood donors. If there are really thousands of people experiencing reinfections there, it seems like we ought to have a large body of clinically proven reinfections, so I'm wondering why we aren't hearing about that.
last month article, sorry for google translate:Do we have any solid data on reinfections? Last time I searched, numbers seemed very low. This is relevant to me cause I had covid last year.
Why would supporting Dilma's impeachment be tantamount to Bolsonaro support?Where are those who supported Dilma's impeachment and helped to put this lunatic in power now?
If you think having Dilma in power for two more years with weekly demonstrations in the streets, record unemployment and a raging recession would have somehow prevented Bolsonaro being elected President you know very little about Brazil.Where are those who supported Dilma's impeachment and helped to put this lunatic in power now?
Yupyou know what's incredibly awful?
that despite the shockingly high amount of deaths related to Covid-19 and mismanagement from the pandemic from this fascist piece of shit, he still has thousands and thousands of supporters who don't care or will make any excuse for him.
Why would supporting Dilma's impeachment be tantamount to Bolsonaro support?
If you think having Dilma in power for two more years with weekly demonstrations in the streets, record unemployment and a raging recession would have somehow prevented Bolsonaro being elected President you know very little about Brazil.