Heat Index in Brazil Hits 137F (58.5C)
Major updates.
It's official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There's already reports of power outages. People can't work. They can't run errands. They can barely sleep. It's not even summer there yet.
The world should be focusing on Brazil and what it means for the rest of us. Instead, the media directs our attention everywhere else while putting words like unbearable and dangerous in quotation marks.
They seek to downplay, always.
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