Actually deforesting is higher than ever because no one can stop the criminals from doing that illegally in an efficient way with the virus and if anyone tries to hard the corrupt president fires them shamelessly anyway like he did with the health ministers that were doing well to contain the virus. Please don't think killing a bunch of inocent elderly people in the cities will make things go less bad with the Amazon, it may make it worse if the president manages to use this to start a facist dictatorship, since he was involved in the Amazon fires last year and won't let anyone stop it.
Also the US numbers are bigger today now so I guess they just weren't updated, may still be surpassed but that will be really hard with the almost 2 million counted cases and the american southern still wanting to reopen despite that (could still happen).
About Brazil though, despite the numbers the Mayors and Governor's response was actually surprisingly good, even from the corrupt ones somehow so that may have saved some lives if not for the demented president flat out lying to people on tv and online, trying to block measures, saying it doesnt exist, coughing on people after spending time with a commitive full of infected, etc (he's also invoved with Rio militias so he's not just an idiot like he may look like, more like an actual crime boss)
Also paying his online marketing militia to spread disinformation:they spread lies through whatsapp to trick the older and poorer people with fake news like "my cousin got blown up by a truck tire and they marked as covid" or that its a communist conspiracy against the president specifically (as in the entire world is conspiring together against him and his followers only) and they were shown to use twitter bots too who all say the same texts etc. It worries me too that the rest of the world will throw under the rug the reasons of it going bad here and not give a shit because of the prejudice that Brazil is a crime infested shithole when its actually a country full of inocent people like any other country in South America. The silver lining is that the president lost a massive ton of support here, and without the pandemics he probably would already have striked his dictatorship attempt since he was organizing "protests" against legistlative and judiciary that flunked because of that.
