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what is happening in brazil and how to help - thread
im making this thread because i barely see anyone who isn’t brazilian talking about this, please read it or scroll to the end for donation links. thank you
im making this thread because i barely see anyone who isn’t brazilian talking about this, please read it or scroll to the end for donation links. thank you
in brazil 400k people have died of the virus and the numbers keep going up. brazil represents 13% of global covid mortalities, despite only consisting of 3% of the global population. and it’s only getting worse with the emergence of the P1 variant. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01031-w
hospitals and intensive care units in brazil don’t have the funding and resources for the number of patients, hospitals are running out of beds, oxygen, and necessary drugs for patients https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00836-9/fulltext
all of this is thanks to president jair bolsonaro who has ignored warnings of covid since the beggining of the pandemic and denied offers to buy the vaccine 11 times. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/brazil-s-bolsonaro-rejects-covid-19-shot-calls-masks-taboo-1.5207303
this article is in portuguese but it has more information on how he denied vaccine offers. https://g1.globo.com/politica/blog/octavio-guedes/post/2021/04/27/cpi-da-covid-governo-bolsonaro-recusou-11-vezes-ofertas-para-compras-de-vacina.ghtml
the government attempted to suppress studies that proved indigenous people are 5 times more likely to be infected with the virus in brazil. https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-covid-scientist-bolsonaro-tried-to-shut-me-up
here is a link to where you can donate to help covid patients. donations in dollars and euros go a long way https://covid19.brazilfoundation.org/en
this is a link to donate to the indigenous population in brazil https://www.vakinha.com.br/vaquinha/apoie-os-povos-indigenas
ill update this thread as i come across more resources. please help in any way you can, the situation is really serious and any amount would help.
this thread was focused on covid, but there’s a lot more going on too: https://twitter.com/brianmtelesur/status/1390364981561024516
more about what happened yesterday. the government is actively killing indigenous and black brazilians https://twitter.com/nprworld/status/1390725149213724679
