Who wants more lockdowns and restrictions but who wants to be like Brazil.
America does?
Seriously... our neighbour has been just as bad as Brazil, if not worse. It's surprising that we're not in worse shape than we are, being so closely tied to them.
Brazil, where a more contagious variant of the novel coronavirus is circulating, saw a record 3,869 people die from COVID-19 on Wednesday, its highest single-day tally so far, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. In total, the country has had more than 12.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 325,000 fatalities. Brazil's case count and death toll from the disease are now only second to the United States, Johns Hopkins data shows.
The World Health Organization's regional director for the Americas, Carissa Etienne, has warned that COVID-19 is surging "dangerously" across Brazil and urged all Brazilians to take preventative measures to stop the spread.
“Unfortunately, the dire situation in Brazil is also affecting neighboring countries,” Etienne said at press briefing last week.
But Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, remains unconvinced of the need for restrictions on activity, arguing that such measures infringe on personal freedom and the resulting economic doom would be worse than the virus itself.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/brazil-covid-19-epicenter-cases-rise-south-america/story?id=76831081
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