#can we start a new tw covid in brazil because I feel like I need it some days

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The South region of Brazil - the wealthy region - reported more deaths than births in the month of March.

I can't describe to you guys how heavy I feel. Over 4.2k Brazilian people are dying per day from covid now. That's just under 200 deaths less than the highest death toll reported by the US. But we have only 2/3 of the US population- we're outnumbered by over 100 million people. We shouldn't be catching up to the US like this. We've already surpassed their record weekly death toll by over 3k. It's just a matter of time before the daily death toll surpasses that of the US.

Meanwhile, the government has stopped reporting a vaccination chronogram and over 100 million of the 138 million vaccines we purchased will only arrive during the third trimester of the year. Most of them arriving near the end of August and September. It feels like everyone else is forgetting the pandemic when my country is living the absolute worst moment of it right now. And there's no sign of it coming to an end because our government has just abandoned us- Brazilian people are dying at such an unprecedented rate and it feels like no one is doing anything about it.

If not even our own government is doing anything, we sure as hell don't expect anyone else to step in. We're a third world country, and who tf wants to do charity right now when they're focused on vaccinating their own people?

My father is a lung surgeon, working in the frontlines of one of São Paulo's largest hospitals. São Paulo is the largest city of Brazil and is ultimately the hotspot of covid. We've reported over 1k deaths just in SP quite a few times. It's where I live too. São Paulo is my home. People from all over the country come here to receive medical treatment as most of the top hospitals in Brazil are a subway ride from my apartment.

My father is a chipper dude. He has a pretty happy-go-lucky attitude most of the time but I haven't seen it in a while. Every day he comes home quiet. Somber. He lost patients that day just like he did every day prior. He doesn't feel like there's an ending in sight because no one does. His hospital is running out of medications to intubate patients, so even when he knows how to help, sometimes he just can't. And he works in one of the best private hospitals in the country- this shouldn't be happening. He's supervising 18 covid patients in the ICU and he doesn't expect any of them to come out alive.

If rich people are dying like this in Brazil, it's because we've truly been abandoned.

But my father did travel to help with the pandemic too. When Manaus - the city where the Brazil variant originated - became the new covid hotspot earlier this year, he travelled there to help save a woman. She was in her early 30s. Pregnant. Her family had already lost 14 people due to covid.

Before my father entered the hospital in Manaus, what he saw outside was just as scarring as what he saw inside. People carrying their dying loved ones in tears and begging him to let them into the hospital. People crying out for oxygen- the hospital barely had any. There were oxygen shortages for covid patients. Some lucky people had managed to score small tanks and were giving their loved ones oxygen out on the sidewalk.

My father did everything he could but his Manaus patient didn't make it. They had to pull the plug on her because she'd been in the ICU for too long and someone else needed her spot. She left behind her husband, an 8 year old son, her mother, and her sister. Everyone else in the family had already died from covid.

So when I tell you that I feel heavy, I mean it with all the sincerity in the world. I mean that this is the largest collective trauma I'll ever live through. I mean that I lost a part of my father that I loved so much because he's living through a nightmare that no one can imagine.

I mean that I feel like my government has abandoned my country and that we are going to pay the price with blood. A lot of it.

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