Equador has an ongoing funeral collapse. We don't have corpses in the street, at least for now, but that's because people are dying in the public hospitals.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-01/coronavirus-in-guayaquil-ecuador-bodies-in-the-streets
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/2/headlines/bodies_in_guayaquil_ecuador_left_rotting_in_the_streets_as_covid_19_overwhelms_health_system
https://brazilian.report/latin-america/2020/04/01/in-ecuador-covid-19-is-leaving-a-literal-trail-of-bodies/
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Federal Prison System Goes Into Lockdown Mode To Prevent Virus Outbreak
Pentagon Fires Navy Captain Who Spoke Out About Response To Aircraft Carrier Outbreak Of COVID-19
.Amazon Bans Sale Of N95 And Surgical Masks To General Public, public be damned. Which, then of course, creates more patients that end up in crowded hospitals unable to treat them.
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After Hungry Residents Demand Food, Philippines President Orders Soldiers to Shoot Curfew Violators
In the Philippines, authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he’s ordered soldiers to shoot to kill residents if they resist a strict lockdown on the island of Luzon.
President Rodrigo Duterte: “I will not hesitate. My orders are to the police and the military, also with the village officials, if there are troubles or occasions where there’s violence or your lives are in danger, shoot them dead.”Duterte’s order came after residents of Manila’s Quezon City shanty town staged a protest, saying they’ve gone hungry without food or relief supplies that were promised when the lockdown began more than two weeks ago.
Italy Trails in Counting COVID-19 Deaths as Vice President Pence Says U.S. Faces Similar Fate
In Europe, COVID-19 continued its unrelenting toll as hospitals across the continent were pushed past their breaking points. Spain’s death toll topped 10,000 with a record 950 new deaths reported in a single day.In the U.K., London’s ExCeL convention center has been converted into an enormous field hospital with plans to treat up to 4,000 COVID-19 patients. Over 2,300 people have died from the disease across the U.K., where for the first time since World War II the Wimbledon tennis tournament has been canceled.
In Italy, COVID-19 deaths have topped 13,000, but The Wall Street Journal reports Italy’s true toll is far higher because the country can’t spare the resources to test every dead body. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday models predict the United States faces a trajectory of COVID-19 deaths similar to Italy’s.
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