Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is one of only a handful of world leaders who have played down Covid-19’s threat, for instance by sabotaging quarantine measures imposed by nearly all of the country’s state governors.
“It’s raining. We’re going to get wet. And some are going to drown in the rain,” the far-right populist shrugged last week, after dismissing the pandemic as a fantasy. That cavalier attitude has sparked nightly pot-banging protests and daily media condemnations. They accuse Bolsonaro – who apparently thinks shutting down the economy will wreck his chances of re-election – of putting his own political future before Brazilian lives.
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