Coronavirus parties highlight Brazil's fractured approach to pandemic

[Judi Lynn]

A doctor was savagely beaten when she objected to one of the many shindigs taking place in defiance of health experts’ advice

Caio Barretto Briso and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 9 Jun 2020 07.42 EDT



For weeks, the booze-soaked, coronavirus-themed parties had raged over the road from Ticyana Azambuja’s home in Rio de Janeiro, until finally she snapped.

She picked up a hammer, marched across the street and used it to smash the rear windshield and Union Jack-patterned wing mirror of a reveller’s car.

“I just wanted them to come out and listen to me. I’d pay to fix the car, but they needed to understand how ridiculous it was to be throwing those parties day and night … right in the middle of a pandemic,” the 35-year-old said.

Azambuja’s moment of fury was understandable, if illegal: an anaesthetist, she has spent the last three months battling to save lives on the frontline of Brazil’s fight against Covid-19 – even catching the disease herself.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/brazil-coronavirus-parties

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. On the up side, this will perhaps

help reduce the world population. Seven and a half billion people is simply not sustainable. Unfortunately, the current death rate of this virus is far too low to make a difference.

[SCantiGOP]

2. You're actually hitting a main conspiracy theory

A core of the Qanon insanity is that George Soros and Bill Gates created the disease in order to halve the world population for environmental reasons. That is the basic purpose of the Deep State.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. No, I'm not hitting a conspiracy theory meme.

I do not believe anyone created this virus to lower the world population. At its worst, this won't even make a dent of any kind. Heck, even the infamous 1918 flu epidemic had no effect on world population. Scary, but true.

I am willing to point out that the current population is already destroying the environment, and there's no end of the growth in sight.

[SCantiGOP]

4. I wasn't disagreeing with your first post

but I sure as hell will for your clarification. Are you saying that decreasing the world's population because of the virus is good thing? And that "unfortunately" this virus won't be deadly enough to produce results? Why not just randomly drop some nuclear bombs, that would accomplish the same goal.
Or are you parroting Ebeneezer Scrooge's statement about poverty being useful to "reduce the world's excess population"?

Not interested in having this debate; I'll just put you on ignore and move on.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. I'm simply saying there are already too many people on this planet.

And that even this virus isn't going to make a noticeable dent in the numbers.

Eventually there will be a serious population crash. I make no predictions as to how it will come about, or when.