Bolsonaro contracts coronavirus? Another fake news Suspected
By Juraima Almeida | 07/09/2020 | Brazil
Fuentes: Latin American Center for Strategic Analysis (CLAE) source: http://estrategia. shared with thanks
rough English translation! original em português abaixo
”It’s just a little flu, as an athlete it wouldn’t affect me”. By denying virus protection to the public Bolsonaro has condemned tens of thousands to a horrible death, causing both his popularity and the economy to crash. He won the Presidency in 2018 after a suspicious attack on his person, magnified for sympathy by his media and US support and by getting the favourite Lula jailed on suspicion.
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro announced that he had contracted the coronavirus that he underestimated during more than four months.
“Positive, positive,” he replied with military language in a heroic and melodramatic declaration, when the journalists asked if he was infected.
Many fear that this is just yet another a way to divert attention from serious social, economic, political and health problems in the country.

Together with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, who also became infected, he has led the government to minimize the pandemic, refusing and cancelling preventive measures.
see also: Brazil: Bolsonaro’s fake statements on COVID-19 In June 2020, Brazil’s president Jair Messias Bolsonaro made 160 statements about COVID-19 containing information that was deemed fake or ...
Brazil has 1,650,000 infected and over 65,000 corpses already from the coronavirus. However, Bolsonaro is one of the few presidents who opposes social isolation and this week signed a decree against the use of face masks in public spaces and prisons.
Wearing a blue shirt and a white beard, he admitted to being contaminated by that disease that he had defined as a “little cold” and said it is the fruit of “media hysteria” . The President also says that the numbers of people that have been contaminated are false and urged his followers to invade hospitals and to attack medical centers in Rio, Brasilia and Sao Paulo.










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