- Proposed allowing businesses to withhold contracted payments from their employees for up to four months, provoking a national uproar before he backed away (Washington Post)
- Downplayed Coronavirus as “just a little cold” (Washington Post)
- Told his followers, via social media and official channels, to attend a demonstration on March 25 in support of his administration (Washington Post)
- Joined an anti-lockdown protest and then defended it (CNN)
- He fired his health minister after clashing with him over how to fight the novel coronavirus, and again called for states to end stay-at-home orders that he said were hurting the economy (CBC)
- Said ‘So what?’ as 5,000 die in his country (France24)
Did Jair Bolsonaro (President of Brazil) help during the Covid-19 pandemic?
No!
RATING: -6