The government said 6,700 people died in Guayas province in the first two weeks of April, far more than the usual 1,000 deaths there in the same period.
Guayas is home to Guayaquil – the nation’s largest city and the part of the country worst-hit by Covid-19.
Footage obtained by the BBC showed residents forced to store bodies in their homes for up to five days.
Coronavirus: Ecuador sees massive surge in deaths in April
The video has parts of other videos I already posted before, but they are subtitled for your viewing pleasure.
The numbers mentioned in the BBC article do not match the ones published by John Hopkins, but after following this insanity for a bit, I will have to go with a higher count.
And, of course, digging mass graves kinda disrupt the official low count.
Drone footage of mass graves being dug in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The Guayas region records 1,000 deaths in an average 15-day period in April. This April, it recorded 6,703 deaths in the first 15 days — 0.16% of its population. pic.twitter.com/5N6DCbUhPv
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 19, 2020
It seems like the Kung Flu is a benchmark how good, or bad, your health care system and overall quality of life and public health is.
If you have a good system it’s still deadly but mostly for those that already are on their way to the maker. I predict that in those countries it won’t affect the overall mortality.
But in countries with bad health care, like Italy or Spain, or those that are corrupt and don’t care for their people, like Iran and Ecuador, the body count is far higher than the virus is deadly.
The panic, the quickly deterioating health care system (that was never good to beginn with) and the overall lack of public health leads to such explosive death numbers.
I agree totally. This really is a referendum on the health care system.
I have relatives in England, and the entire country is panicked and screwed over. It is not because they have a particularly deadly version of the virus. It is because the NHS is not capable of handling the regular day to day load, forget a viral outbreak.
The joys of socialized medicine.