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The most serene republicans wrote:

Hi, I want to interrupt whatever anyone's doing right now to inform that ten days ago, in the lovely concrete jungle that is São Paulo - SP, Brazil, A local druglord and several members of his gang (a local chapter of a large Mafia, the PCC) shot the air with a rifle several times to scare off and stop a funk ball from happening. The funk ball constituted a huge crowd, which goes again the gang's policy, which intends to stop the spread of COVID-91 in São Paulo.

In short: In Brazil, druglords are better at stopping Covid than the government.

Covid-91? Damn, I must have missed some of its iterations...

For real though, the way that governments and some people approach the pandemic just infuriates me. I get that there are economic concerns, but come on, this is people's health we are talking about! How can the economy be more important than making sure that people stay safe and healthy? The coronavirus is not just a flu, it's a serious virus that ravages the human body. It leaves lasting complications like nerve damage, lung damage, heart damage, and yet people seem only be able to care about going to the pub again, going to festivals or vacationing. Like, has that really become the sole sense of life of some people?

I guess this may sound somewhat ranty, but as someone who went through a covid infection it really annoys me to see how people and governmenta behave irresponsibly. They want to loosen restrictions when infection rates are still high, and that's just insanity to me. When you jump out of a plane with a parachute, you don't cut the cords of that parachute when it has slowed down your descent a little bit. You keep the parachute on until you reach the ground.