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Chile has more cases per million than the USA.
Chile and Brazil both have right wing leaders.
Chile and Brazil both have right wing leaders.
Same thing again yesterday.
Brazil, at 2/3 our size, and with a very far right wing denier president, had more new cases and more new deaths than the USA:
Country ... New Cases ......New Deaths
USA ............ +20,578 ...... +1,083
Brazil .......... +27,312 ...... +1,269
The premise of this thread is nothing but a massive logical fallacy. It argues that a leader that is "Right wing" is somehow responsible for the results of COVID 19 in their country. It by definition eliminates any other possible causes.
For example, Brazil is listed. Is the results of COVID 19 there the fault of Bolsonaro or, is it the fault of his predecessors? Temer, the President Bolsonaro replaced was a Leftist impeached for corruption. His predecessor was Rousseff, a Communist who was also impeached for corruption. Her predecessor was Lula da Silva, a Leftist union boss who was convicted of corruption and barred from holding public office ever again....
Kinda argues that the problem didn't start with Bolsonaro.
Of course, there is also the likelihood that many countries don't have a good grasp on how many people really got COVID 19, or their death rate from it. Others, like China as a glaring example, have grossly understated the severity of their COVID 19 situation. So, the original thread premise is now largely invalidated because it cherry picks data from an incomplete or corrupted set of data.
I could go on, but it's not necessary. The intent of this thread was simply to bash the Right politically rather than an honest attempt to point out some rational argument or position.
Hello T. A. Gardner,
Bolsonaro has routinely refused to take known proactive steps to fight the spread.
Now he's getting what he had coming with that approach.
The pandemic did not hit during previous administrations, it hit during this one.
I heard an expert today that said if Brazil keeps going at this pace they could surpass the nation with the most deaths by fall. That would be us.
And that would be a pretty big fail if their right wing leader does so badly that they pass us with our right wing leader.
We certainly have terrible leadership. We could have done so much better, with so many people still alive who didn't have to die.
It's terrible to have this crisis and this need for really good leadership and to be stuck with DT instead.
None of that changes that he inherited a nation that had had hard Leftist, corrupt, leadership for decades. Something like this isn't a thing a nation deals with on the fly alone. Given that Brazil has very high rates of poverty and crime, its likely they'll be hard hit regardless of what the government does.
None of that changes that he inherited a nation that had had hard Leftist, corrupt, leadership for decades. Something like this isn't a thing a nation deals with on the fly alone. Given that Brazil has very high rates of poverty and crime, its likely they'll be hard hit regardless of what the government does.
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