When Brazil is ranked the world’s worst country in handling the coronavirus pandemic—whose death toll is second to the US—which is led by a Trump-like or nationalist character, who has made light of the Covid-19 threat, mocked mask-wearing, opposed lockdowns, and contracted the virus himself.
What are the odds that Brazil, which relies on China’s half-baked vaccines, might end up registering more corona infections and deaths than the US in containing Covid-🇧🇷 in coming weeks or months due to its rogue leader’s weak leadership or ineptitude?
by Covido January 28, 2021
When health officials and academics were relieved and overjoyed to hear that Dr. Scott Atlas, US President Donald Trump's controversial special adviser on Covid-19, who was on a 130-day contract, had resigned—he rose to notoriety after questioning the need for masks and other measures to control the pandemic.
Besides casting doubt on the usefulness of masks, the president’s “Covid-130 health con-sultant” was against lockdowns and supported herd immunity as a strategy to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
by Covido December 12, 2020
When conspiracists or hoaxers claim that the coronavirus is dead scared of aliens, ghosts, or spirits, which means that someone is safer in the presence of these dark or evil forces.
A number of diehard QAnonists refused to wear any masks at Halloween parties because of their pseudoscientific Covid-👽 beliefs.
by Covido November 01, 2020
The hypothesis that zombies may be carriers of the coronavirus, which prompted the authorities to lock all cemetery gates or to have security guards patrolling the area at the request of superstitious folks to prevent these walking dead from infecting the general population.
Because the infection and mortality rates of residents living near cemeteries are above those from other neighborhoods, authorities don’t want to take any chances what if those infections and deaths were really due to Covid-🧟 ♂️.
by Covido November 16, 2020
A Liar-in-Chief’s immoral equivalent of “A picture is worth a thousand words.” When a caustic, narcissistic, racist, supremacist, or xenophobic tweet has the same negative or nauseating effect as a fake or frightening GIF.
In TrumpWorld, or among an obscene number of morally corrupt Trumpublican lawmakers, a picture is worth 280 characters.
by Covido February 08, 2022
When the growing movement of anti-vaccination groups in Malaysia, whose members refuse to be jabbed if the Covid-19 vaccines are not halal, doesn’t make herd immunity in the Muslim-majority nation achievable any time soon.
The recent spike in infected cases, which places Malaysia among the top five nations in South East Asia with the worse infection and death rates, is bad news for the moderate-Muslim country in containing the Covid-🇲🇾 crisis.
by Covido December 27, 2020
When the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to help the Palestinian authority contain the coronavirus crisis, not really because he wants to, but because it is impossible to separate Jews and Palestinians there—if one group is affected, both sides will inevitably suffer.
In Israel, PM Netanyahu used Covid-🇮🇱 to avoid being booted out of office and to speed up the annexation of significant parts of the Occupied Territory.
by Covido April 08, 2021