Bolsonaro: Brazil Must Stop Being ‘Country of Sissies’, Must Face Pandemic ‘Head-on’

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Tuesday, November 10th, President Jair Bolsonaro said that Brazil must “stop being a country of sissies” and face the Covid-19 pandemic “head-on”.

“Everything now is pandemic”, complained Bolsonaro during a speech at the Planalto Palace, in a ceremony to launch a tourism program.

Earlier on Tuesday, the media outlet consortium reported that Brazil had reached 162,600 Covid-19 deaths, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and 5.67 million confirmed cases.

“It’s no use running away from this, running away from reality. Brazil must stop being a country of sissies. Look at the fodder for the press. Fodder for the vultures back there. We have to confront it head-on, to fight. What is this generation of ours?”

The President said he lamented the deaths and said once again that everyone’s fate is death.

“The emergency aid ends in December. What about these almost 40 million invisible people? They lost everything now. The can picker didn’t have a can to pick up on the street, there was no way to sell a biscuit on the beach, there was no way to sell mate at the soccer stadium. Everything now is pandemic. We must put an end to this thing. I’m sorry for the deaths, I’m sorry, but we’ll all die one day. Here, everybody is going to die,” declared Bolsonaro.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Bolsonaro has always declared his support for the opening of trade and has been against the wearing of masks.

The President also habitually promotes events that create crowds, another situation that can help spread the novel coronavirus further, according to health officials.

During his speech, Bolsonaro said that his life “is a mess, it’s problems all the time”. The President also stated that he has no peace “for anything at all” and complained about the media coverage.

“People, we have to seek changes, we won’t have another opportunity. People say ‘we want a center’, no hate there and no hate here. Hate is for sissies. My bullying times at school were beatings,” he declared.

Reference to Biden

During the same Tuesday event, Bolsonaro stated that “when you run out of words, you must have gunpowder” when referring to the Amazon. Bolsonaro, with no mention of Biden’s name, declared on Tuesday in the Planalto:

“We just saw a great candidate for head of state say recently that he would impose trade barriers against Brazil unless I extinguished the Amazon fires. How can we deal with all this? Diplomacy is not enough, right, Ernesto? when words run out, you need to have gunpowder, otherwise it doesn’t work. You don’t even need to use the gunpowder, but it must be known that you have it. This is the world. No one has what we have.”

Bolsonaro publicly declared several times that he supported Trump’s reelection. The President even said that he would attend the inauguration of his American colleague for the second term. By Tuesday, neither Trump nor Bolsonaro had publicly acknowledged Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. election.

Source: G1