Julia Blunck
Who should we blame for Brazil’s death toll? According to the local press, coronavirus deaths now exceed 65,000. And this can only be an underestimate, thanks to a severe lack of proper testing and an even more severe surplus of statistical massaging by smart bureaucracy. A lack of autopsies, for example, often obscures the cause of death, which makes deaths from the virus hard to pick out. Right now, the country obsessed with football metaphors could fill a stadium with its coronavirus dead, most of them black or brown, most of them poor, all of them human beings. Who is to blame?