Nicolelis:
'Population needs to wake up to the scale of our tragedy'.
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02/26/2021
10:29 AM The doctor and neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis said he saw a
great chance of a 'national collapse' and defends the need for a
21-day 'immediate' national lockdown amid the worsening of new
coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday, the country recorded the record of
new deaths caused by the disease in the last 24 hours: 1,582. 'The
population needs to wake up he said, in an interview with the
newspaper “O Globo.“
Asked
how the country reached the situation in which the collapse of the
health system is registered in several states, Nicolelis recalled
that, unlike the first wave, when each state registered problems in a
certain period, 'synchronizing effects' appeared, citing the parties
of end of year, elections and Carnival.
'Now,
everything is exploding at the same time. This means that there is no
medication, there is no way to intubate, you will not be able to
transfer from one city to another, you will not be able to transfer
anywhere. The consequence of the health collapse is the funerary
collapse.
Scientists
don't just look at the present, but look at the future, while the
politician is thinking about today, how to resist pressure from
sector X not to close, despite the deaths, 'he argues.
Classifying
as 'harmful' what he called the 'absence of command from the federal
government', the scientist said he saw the chance of a national
collapse as great.
'It is
not that every corner will collapse, but a good part of the capitals
can collapse at the same time, we have never been close to that. If
it eliminates indigenous genocide and slavery, it is the greatest
tragedy in Brazil. The absence of command from the federal government
is harmful. This is a war. In other countries this is the message
that was given, see China. It is curious to see that in the Western
world it is difficult to convey this message of gravity. In Israel,
half the population was vaccinated in the middle of a lockdown, and
Israel is a country that understands what a war is. They adopted a
national salvation speech, the mobilization was total ', he says.
I have
been asking myself a lot: what is the value of life in Brazil? What
value do politicians give to the life of the citizen if they do not
close activities in a place with 100% occupancy of the beds? Having
to preserve the economy is not only an economic falsehood, it also
demonstrates a complete lack of empathy for people's lives. What
scares me the most is the low value of life. Politicians are the
first component, but so is society. Because when someone goes to a
clandestine party at the end of the year, at a carnival, they crowd
in a ballad or on the edge of the football field, it does not only
compromise their health, but the lives of their families, neighbors
and people they don't even know . Our society at some point lost its
connection with how irreparable life is.
Regarding
vaccination, the doctor said that no one expected Brazil to perform
so poorly. The immunization campaign started in mid-January, but
continues at a timid pace. 'We could be vaccinating 10 million, more
than any country. It is like a Greek tragedy, but it is Brazilian,
that somebody will tell one day. Because it is epic, like the defeat
of the Trojans
In his
opinion, the country would need a national lockdown, with the support
of a communication campaign in order to have collaboration from the
population because, at that time, measures of time restriction have
no effect. 'The consequence of the loss of half a million people
cannot be imagined. Without people, there is no economy, nobody
produces, nobody consumes. It's inconceivable, 'he criticizes. He
said that there is still time to revert the situation, 'but it has to
change everything', saying that he is proposing the creation of a
national salvation commission, without the participation of the
Ministry of Health, organized by governors, to resolve the logistical
issue.
Is it
a war, when are we going to face the real enemy? Brazil is the
largest open-air laboratory to see what happens to the virus running
wild. Second, an immediate, national, 21-day lockdown, with sanitary
barriers on the roads, airports closed. And then expand coverage,
using multiple vaccines. You can't keep arguing, sign the contract
and go ahead, leave it for later, we're talking about the lives of
1,500 people a day, 5 boeings are falling. Vaccination, vaccination,
vaccination, testing and social isolation. There's no way in a war.
We are facing an epic, incalculable, biblical loss
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This
Wednesday (24), Brazil reached the mark of 250 thousand deaths caused
by the covid-19. So far, the country has counted 1,390 new deaths
caused by the disease in the last 24 hours, according to an extra
bulletin released this afternoon by the consortium of media outlets
of which UOL is a part, based on data provided by the state health
departments. The total number of victims so far is 250,036. The
vaccination started in mid-January, but continues in timid steps:
only 2.87% of the country's population had received at least one dose
of immunizing until yesterday, according to the consortium.
