[Mariner]

Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-bolsonaro-makes-life-death-161144235.html

Brazil joins Sweden in the “do nothing” group.

They will certainly provide the world with the counter example.

[Black Agnes]

It’s warm in Brazil. Outside fomites not as much of a problem, viral load potentially less as well.

I’d be willing to bet their circulating D3 is fairly high, too.

The infected/hospitalized ratio will be different IMHO based on the latter, and maybe the former too.

Lots of papers over the next couple of decades will be written on this pathogen.

[Mariner]

Brazilian President Bolsonaro suggested his people are naturally immune to the coronavirus, claiming they can swim in sewage and ‘nothing happens’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazilian-president-bolsonaro-suggested-people-140144952.html

In two weeks this guy will be hanging from a lamppost by his neck.

[plain talk]

“Bolsonaro told reporters in the capital, Brasilia, that he feels Brazilians’ natural immunity will protect the nation.”

There could be some truth in that. I don’t know how people in these third world countries drink the water but they do. We shall see.