Retrospectiva Dois mil e Vinte
Two Thousand and Twenty Retrospective
ATTENTION YOU!
You that are reading my darling project would like informate you wich this material was based in real facts, the most part of it is talking about huge desasters because the theme depict events that market our 2020 year, therefore will talk about things may shock some peoples and thinking about it I made satirical ilustrations, with intention to rescue a funny side against those tragedies, containing or not social criticism, without intentions to ofende no one and/or religion/culture.
Thank you for the atention and I hope you enjoy it!
JANUARY
Third Mundial War?
3 of january of 2020, Donald Trump, 45th president of United States of America, declared an attack to an airport where Qassem Soleimani was found, an Irans commander named the second most important person of the country.
Died because of a bombing attack in the capital of Iraq, in Badgá. The attacks order against the commander aimed block suspect terrorist plans; however this notice was spread out extremaly fast in the world, generating several conflicts and sharing opinions in the whole world. The answer of that attack, day 7 of january, Iran bombed two american bases in Iraq and after all of this the subject ended.
FEBRUARY
Locust Clouds in Argentina
The Argentina was surprised in 2020, after 73 years, without cases of locust clouds, with the first appearances in february of 2020. Almost 1 kilometer² of this cloud may have 40 millions that were locust that are capable to consume in one day the equivalent of a 2 thousand of cows or 350 thousand peoples, according to argentine agronomist Héctor Medina. This year the India and the Africa suffered huge damages because of these pest and Brazil got rid of locust clouds because of a strong cold front that came in the country, diverting your route.
MARCH
Corona Virus
The China was since dezember of 2019 with cases of a new disease and hid this informations about the Covid-19 for almost 2 months, when the disease started to turn into a incontrollable pandemic.
The disease caused for the new agent of corona virus was born in the city of Wuhan, in China, without scientific evidences how it emerged.
The World Healthy Organization declared pandemic of corona virus in 11 march of 2020 and was announced 2 days after discretions of social isolations and mandatory quarantine.
The first hipothesis was a bat's virus had contact with a pangolin and mutated, others says that was created in China's labs, but nothing was scientific proven.
APRIL
UFO
In the 28 of april of 2020, the american government confirmed the existence of UFO and released 3 videos that shows phenomenon of "Unidentified Flying Objects", videos that already existed and was released by a private company in 2004, while the Other two vídeos was reported in 2015.
The pentagon doesn’t explained the conclusions of the investigations or details of what are truth going on in the caught vídeos and the organ affirm wich “the flying phenomenons watched in the vídeos remain classified as “unidentified”.
MAY
Killer Wasps in the United States
In May of 2020 the world turned his attention to a pest that started merge in United States, called killer Asians wasps. Their presence it’s alarming because your toxin is capable to kill humans and it is a bee’s predator, being able to exterminate your hive in fell hours.
Your size can catch up 5 centimeters, being fatal and your sting being able to penetrate
protective suits worn by beekeepers.
protective suits worn by beekeepers.
Scientists are striving to eliminate this pest as soon as possible because its breeding period is from April to September and if it is not eliminated soon, controlling this pest in the future could create environmental problems. Fortunately, its first nest was contained on October 25, 2020.
JUNY
Black Lives Matter
On May 25, 2020, the world was shocked by a recorded murder of a black American whose name was George Floyd, by a white American police officer, because he was prevented from breathing while he was unjustly apprehended. After this terror, the world revolted and spawned the “Black Lives Matter” movement, giving support and a voice to all black people worldwide. The movement demanded justice and 10 goals for change, including changes in police protocols. The movement was also reflected in Brazil during this time, as we still live in a very racist reality in our country.
JULY
Cyclones in Brazil
On June 30, 2020, winds of up to 100 km / h were detected in Brazil, the phenomenon of which is dubbed “Cyclone Bomb” and has the potential to tear off roof tiles and cause severe storms, a lot of rain and from there fronts are formed. cold. The arrival of these cyclones caused enormous damage in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.
According to the meteorologist at the National Meteorological Institute (INMET) Heráclio Alves, extratropical cyclones are relatively common and are formed by areas of low atmospheric pressure.
These phenomena are of low probability in Brazil.
AUGUST
Mega Explosion in Lebanon
August 4, 2020 - Beirut, Lebanon, was surprised by a huge explosion caused by poor storage of 2.7 tons of ammonium nitrate, generating an explosion compared to 1.1 thousand tons of TNT and an earthquake of magnitude of 3.3 (where 10 is the maximum on the Richter Scale), opening a crater 43 meters deep. The damage caused at least 171 deaths and more than 6,000 injuries.
Due to the lack of responsibility of Governor Michel Aoun, reactivated protests the Lebanese political class during this period.
SEPTEMBER
Vaccine Covid-19
The next hope for the whole world is a vaccine against SARS-Cov-2 and the whole world is still in this race to find immunity. The good news is that during the month of September there was a good advance in vaccine technology, as of the 100 vaccines under development, 9 are in phase 3 of testing, being the most important stage for the validation and safety of vaccines.
The production of a vaccine can lasts for years, but according to the world emergency, the expectation would be 18 months.
So far (December 31, 2020) the 6 most effective vaccines against Covid-19 have been proven, being:
- Modern;
- Sinovac;
- Oxford / AstraZeneca;
- BioNtech / Pfizer / Fosun;
- CanSino;
- Sinopharm.
OCTOBER
200 reais bill
Due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, here in Brazil a lot of money circulated in the banks and in the population due to the Emergency Aid, whose value was R $ 600.00 reais (and, later, going to half the value), and as a result, the Central Bank announced the new R$ 200 reais note that began to circulate on September 2, 2020.
The new note of R $ 200 reais is stamped the maned wolf, with unique prints to avoid counterfeiting.
The Central Bank launched the banknote to reduce future spending by printing the new notes and avoiding the lack of cash in circulation.
NOVEMBER
Blackout in Amapá
On November 3, Amapá lived the longest month of the year, as they had to face a blackout as a result of a fire that burned the state substation. To improve, the second substation was overloaded and disconnected from the system and the third equipment that served as a "back up" was under maintenance since December 2019.
It was a great nightmare for the residents of the region because it affected energy supply, water supply, food purchase and storage, telephone and internet services, among others.
The first blackout lasted for 4 days and on November 7, the second transformer, overloaded due to the fire, partially returned to work for the population through rotation. Power resumed on November 27 in 100% of the states, after 22 days without power.
DEZEMBER
Volcanic Eruption in Indonesia
A volcanic eruption in Indonesia occurred on November 30, 2020 and forced the removal of 4,400 inhabitants.
Authorities have barred access to the crater area over a 2 km stretch, as this is the largest volcanic eruption since 2017 of the Lewotolo volcano.
People are advised not to carry out any activity within a 4 km radius of the crater, being declared by the country's Center for Volcanology and Geological Risks Mitigation that the site is likely to be flooded with “hot clouds, lava flow, lava avalanche and poisonous gas”.
Indonesia has 130 active volcanoes; the archipelago being located in one of the three most intense seismic zones in the world.
