Flavio

The better part of 60 years ago, Gordon Parks built a photoessay for 'Life' magazine of a flavela in Rio de Janeiro. While I couldn't find a reproduction of the 'Life' piece, there is a recent, and coincidental, retrospective on the work. Coincidental, in the sense that Brazil's own Very Unstable Lunatic is branding Covid-19 something of a hoax. In a country of crowded cities with many poor living, not in luxury high-rises, but tenements or much worse.

Yet Bolsonaro said earlier this week he believed "the worst had passed" for the coronavirus pandemic, during a press conference outside the Alvorada presidential residence in Brasilia. But as the number of cases and deaths continue to climb, many health experts fear the worst is yet to come.
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A recent survey from pollster Datafolha, showed Bolsonaro's approval at 33% and that the country is split nearly down the middle on whether the President should be impeached.

Is it any wonder that our Very Unstable Lunatic is such a fan of Brazil's?

Sound familiar? Given the immensity not only of Rio, but even more so of Sao Paulo (the fourth largest city on the planet), Covid-19 will cull the herd of most of those poor people. Lunatics the world over will celebrate this new weapon against poverty.