Lula Calls Bolsonaro an \u201cImbecile\u201d for His Handling of the COVID Crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 11, 2021 (EIRNS) \u2013 Brazilian former President Lula de Silva yesterday delivered his first public speech since his phony conviction for graft was overturned by the Brazilian Supreme Court earlier this week, and he used the occasion to rip into President Jair Bolsonaro as an \u00abimbecile\u00bb for his handling of the COVID pandemic. \u00abMany of these deaths could have been avoided,\u00bb Lula stated, referring to Brazil\u2019s stunning 268,000 deaths. Brazil has the second- highest number of COVID deaths in the world, after the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to a rally of metalworkers in Sao Bernardo do Campo, his historic base, Lula charged, \u00abThis country is disorganized and falling apart, because it has no government,\u00bb and he demanded \u00abHealth, jobs and justice for Brazil\u2026 The people need jobs.\u00bb Lula may run for President against Bolsonaro in the October 2022 elections, although some voices have surfaced in the country calling for Bolsonaro to be driven out of office immediately, if the country is to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bolsonaro\u2019s outrageous disregard for human life and dismissive attitude about any and all anti-pandemic measures (\u00abstop whining\u00bb about the pandemic, he told Brazilians a few days ago), has converted Brazil into a threat to the health of the entire planet. According to Fiocruz, a respected biological sciences R&D center in Rio de Janeiro, the new P1 strain of the coronavirus that has emerged in Brazil, which is thought to be twice as contagious as the original strain, may also evade immunity built up by having had the original version of COVID, with a chance of reinfection estimated at between 25% and 60%. Furthermore, P1 is just one of several \u00abvariants of concern\u00bb that have become dominant in six of eight states studied by Fiocruz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00abThis information is an atomic bomb,\u00bb said Roberto Kraenkel, of the Covid-19 Brazil Observatory, according to the Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fiocruz also reports that 15 state capitals have intensive care units (ICUs) that are at more than 90% capacity, including the two largest states, Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo. The national capital, Brasilia, is also reported to be at full ICU capacity, while two major cities — Porto Alegre in the south and Campo Grande in the southwest — have exceeded capacity. There is an imminent danger of the \u00aboverload and even collapse of health systems,\u00bb the R&D center warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BBC reported: \u00abScientists are concerned that Brazil has almost become a natural laboratory, where people can see what happens when coronavirus goes relatively unchecked\u2026 Global experts are calling for a plan — including rapid vaccination, lockdowns, and strict social distancing measures — to get the situation under control.\u00bb Brazilian epidemiologist Dr. Pedro Hallal told the BBC: \u00abIf we do not start vaccinating the population here very soon, it will become a massive tragedy.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brazil, with a population of 211 million, is by far the largest country in South America, and shares borders with 10 different nations: every country of South America with the exception of Chile and Ecuador. It has also has extensive historic ties and travel with Africa. And its population was one of the most ravaged by AIDS in decades past, opening up dangerous potentials in terms of its relationship to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lula Calls Bolsonaro an \u201cImbecile\u201d for His Handling of the COVID Crisis March 11, 2021 (EIRNS) \u2013 Brazilian former President Lula de Silva yesterday delivered his first public speech since his phony conviction for graft was overturned by the Brazilian Supreme Court earlier this week, and he used the occasion to rip into President Jair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":70334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,520,505,508,634],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-70333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-healthcare","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70344,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70333\/revisions\/70344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}