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2020-08-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Brazil is ''returning to normal'' from COVID19, says president

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Posted by Fred 2020-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 In other words with an 80% loss of 6 billion dollar annual tourism income and 1.2 million tourism jobs, he is opening Brazil back up regardless.

Posted by Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-08-23 02:41|| 2020-08-23 02:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Not according to wordometers. If fact, IMO, Brazil is going to overtake USA in per capita deaths by the end of this week.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-23 02:41|| 2020-08-23 02:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Normal? Brazil? Huh?

Posted by gorb 2020-08-23 04:06|| 2020-08-23 04:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Are black Brazilians being disproportionately affected like "they say" about black Americans?

Posted by Clem 2020-08-23 07:27|| 2020-08-23 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Brazil is not America. The major ethnic groups are white European immigrants in the South and Latin immigrants in the North. The South is wealthier than the north but in places like the favelas of Rio there is a lot of violence and crime and throughout the nation where favelas exist.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-08-23 17:19|| 2020-08-23 17:19|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ That doesn't answer my question, but thanks anyway.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-23 17:54|| 2020-08-23 17:54|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Significantly higher than the larger two races, white and Latin. 1 in 3 infected Afro-Brazilians were dying earlier this year.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-08-23 19:08|| 2020-08-23 19:08|| Front Page Top

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