homo-sex-shoe-whale:

Not so fun fact: while Americans and Europeans are boiling, Brazilians are freezing. We’re having one of our coldest winters ever.

We’re set to be hit with a cold front from the south pole and many parts of the country are expecting to not only have historically low temperatures, but to even see SNOW for the first time.

Here’s the weather forecast for my city this week (°C/F)

If you live in Canada or something, 4°C (39°F) might not sound that scary, but for Brazil, a TROPICAL COUNTRY, that’s insanely low. It’s one of the lowest temperatures in the past 30 years.

Another city in my state is set to have sub-freezing temperatures, and perhaps even SNOW! (C/F)

I don’t feel like I have to tell you that for Brazil, snow isn’t exactly the most common occurrence ever.

There’s a reason why this is dangerous though.

Unlike places that actually have temperatures like these regularly, houses in Brazil don’t have insulation. Houses in Brazil are designed to be cold and stay cold, because normally, we have very hot and humid days.

And of course, no one living on Brazil has heating systems.

So no one is actually warm inside their homes. There’s been many mornings where I went out to the balcony to find it was much colder inside my apartment than outside. Because again, our homes aren’t designed to retain any heat.

This is even worse for those who are homeless, because again, hardly anyone in Brazil even owns clothes for temperatures like these. Let alone have appropriate clothes to donate to those who need it. In my city, over a dozen homeless people have already died from hypothermia this winter. And we haven’t even reached the coldest part of the season.

Isn’t the 21st century crazy?

guccixcucci:

arkgoz:

guccixcucci:

guccixcucci:

You know who else doesn’t get enough heat for their colonialism? Portugal. Those people will be burning in hell

Started the slave trade and get to sit there while France and England get all the smoke nah. Brazil has the second largest population of Black people in the world.

Hellfire immediately. Don’t pass go don’t collect $200

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/3/10/how-portugal-silenced-centuries-of-violence-and-trauma

Brazil: Far-right candidate rejects slave-trading history

Jair Bolsonaro is a frontrunner in opinion polls despite his controversial views on race and Brazil’s dictatorship.

aljazeera.com

JAIR BOLSONARO IS THE DEVIL🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

sofia-razvi:

Brazil is suffering from the worst COVID outbreak there is, and no one is talking about it. This is not just in terms of the number of cases, but also the government’s active refusal to do anything and in fact hurting attempts to help. 1 in every 4 COVID deaths in the world is in Brazil. There isn’t enough access to vaccines. Food is unaffordable, let alone masks. People are actually starving to death. Hospitals don’t have enough beds or oxygen. And if this is not enough of a reason to talk about it, the variant that is sweeping through Brazil is twice as contagious, and has also been seen to infect people who have already been infected with other variations of the virus. The variant has crossed borders already.

These Twitter threads give all the details that i know. Please go through this and share widely. 

The second twitter thread provides details of how to donate. Here is a link. It is in Portugese, but google translate is working fine here and also, the author of the thread will translate to guide donation if contacted. 

Please share with as many people as possible. The people of Brazil need international support.

just-shower-thoughts:

People are way more concerned about athletes having to deal with Brazil being unsafe than the millions of people who live there

starladyquill:

randomtinylife:

odins-one-eyed-fuck:

emperorbulblax:

Canada

China

New Zealand

England

Germany

Australia

Japan

America

as an american i can confirm this is exactly what the entire country looks like

Thought I might add some more for you

Wales

Peru

Nigeria

Mexico

Brazil