ikonist:

ikonist:

brazilian government thinking abt leaving the world health org in the middle of a pandemic……………… deleting the deaths/infected numbers from official websites…………. pretending brazil isnt the #2 country w the most infected rn………………. 600k+ ppl infected……. nearly 1k deaths A DAY!…….. i’m gonna cry

i wasn’t gonna make this post a big of a deal but i was thinking and… please pay attention to brazil. 

most cities are either going back to “normal” (re-opening business, public transportation, parks/beaches) or, like são paulo and rio, they never went fully quarantined. those are also the most dense cities in brazil, and… the cities with the most cases. 

we are reaching 30 days without a health minister because the last two were fired directly by the president, when they were doing according to what the world health org said.

https://brazilian.report/coronavirus-brazil-live-blog/

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-52367849/coronavirus-advice-ignored-by-brazil-s-president-jair-bolsonaro?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-map

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52307339

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/brazil-coronavirus-covid-19-virus-doctor

https://www.france24.com/en/20200606-bolsonaro-threatens-to-quit-who-as-covid-19-kills-a-brazilian-per-minute 

with the blm movement news spreading, the main cities in brazil are organizing/organized protests in support, only to be faced with police brutality and violence; 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/03/brazil-suffers-its-own-scourge-police-brutality “To put that in perspective, imagine police in the United States killing at a similar rate; they would be responsible for more than 36,000 deaths each year. Instead, US police shoot and kill about 1,000 people per year.“

some politicians are also trying to pass another law that would put antifas in the same category as terrorists.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/bras-j06.html “Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again denounced demonstrators joining marches in five Brazilian cities held in solidarity with the protests in United States as “terrorists” and “outcasts” aiming to “break the country.“

not to mention that deforastation is taking its peak as we speak right now. rodrigo salles, our environment minister, said that “we should take advantage of covid to loosen the anti-deforastation laws”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/05/the-guardian-view-on-brazil-and-the-amazon-dont-look-away

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/world/americas/amazon-deforestation-brazil.html

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/brazil-minister-advises-using-covid-19-to-distract-from-amazon-deregulation/

“In a Brazilian cabinet meeting Environment Minister Ricardo Salles was caught on video declaring that the COVID-19 pandemic which has killed more than 23,000 of his fellow citizens offers a distraction during which the government can “run the cattle herd” through the Amazon, “changing all the rules and simplifying standards.”

so, i know things are getting hard for everyone. but please, pay attention to what’s happening in brazil.