Mitigation ? why bother ?

[rogespeed]

Look no further than Brazil as a lesser-action control group , whereby our local national mitigation measures can be evaluated in contrast with 

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/presidents-so-what-as-5000-die-sparks-fury-in-brazil/ar-B...

[domino-710]

Oh - not another one. 

[joztamps]

Bolsonaro makes Trump, Johnson and Scummo look like the Holy Trinity.

[bright.ton42]

Oh yes another one and I'm thinking even more dangerous than Trump.  I've been watch Il Presidente for a while, while my jaw drops further and further. 

I am so grateful to have our pm leading us and think he is doing a great job.   A bit slow to move  but once he did he and his colleagues moved swiftly.   There will be problems in the future but nothing like some other countries will have.

[rogespeed]

Brazil , like us is a southern hemishere country , flu season approaching, yet has taken the opposite course of action. 

Must be a lot to do with their established way of living life - may be more independent , each to their own resources.

[davewil1964]

Maybe that Bolsanaro is so right-wing he makes Trump look like a socialist.

The more peons that die, the less welfare that needs to be ignored.

[rogespeed]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

Maybe that Bolsanaro is so right-wing he makes Trump look like a socialist.

The more peons that die, the less welfare that needs to be ignored.

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They use a wage contributed and funded sort of everything insurance , docked at about 10% gross , which covers just about every condition that suddenly excludes one from the workforce , but seems one has to be gainfully employed first, which leaves the question of the generational slum dwellers, maybe their fate is the ones who their President is really commenting about ?

Is of interest as a baseline - what happens if there is minimal mitigation