After near a month that I posted here, our situation couldn't be worse. The catastrophe, at least for me, is imminent.
Last Monday for the first time we confirmed more than 1000 deaths by 24 hours, and now we are 3rd worldwide in number of confirmed cases. We definitely will surpass 20 thousand deaths this week. Sure, by now other countries have worst numbers, but there are three factors that make me think about a disaster:
1- The death tax trend is upward, with a increasing limit.
2- We don't have (AGAIN) a Health Minister. The last one was dumped because, as a Physician, he didn't want to forcibly prescribe, by decree, the use of Hydroxychloroquine. The substance became the new panacea for the President and his bloodhounds, trying to forcibly re-open the economy. The vacancy is currently filled by an interim General, with no prior experience in public administration, and he already lied to the WHO about the efforts of the federal executive, remembering the military dictatorship times...
3- The President is a genocidal delinquent, plain and simple. He didn't move a feather for social distancing, attacked the governors that did it, including calling for disobedience, and by all means try to sabotage any attempt to make the right thing from others officials. Do you want an example? To sabotage social distancing, he signed a decree calling barbers and personal trainers (not because a giant gym company supports his government, no...) as essential workers. As the decree resulted in null results, since the governors/mayors have authority over this, he denied the emergency payment to... barbers and personal trainers.
Social distancing is being denied by his supporters, and by people that have to work by desperation.
But why the president decided to press full denial on this? Well there are another four factors:
A- His guru firmly affirms that all of this is a communist international plot to overthrow his government. Everybody in the world is part of the "Communist Plot", and the virus is a lie to create the Globalist government, funded by China, Soros, WHO, the media, the "left", the opposition, the gays and even the US Democratic Party (Biden is a commie!!!!). Convenently, he agrees.
B- He is a perv. He exalts the military dictatorship, called for mass exterminations when he was a deputy, honored torturers and praised them, not including his instances for fusillade suspects, his denial of legal due process, wanting to perform a civil war, racism, treatment of women with inferiority, xenophobia with immigrants (when black, or middle eastern), use of Christianity to bend public interests...
C- He though that it could let the economy in the hands of the Economy Minister (Paulo Guedes, a Chicago Boy disciple) going through the motions, while he was performing his behavioral wars. During the campaign he had a massive support among neoliberals, libertarians, market players and businessmen, calling for administrative, pension and tax reforms, relaxation of environmental laws, and also labor rights suppression. With the current situation, his economic dream went down the bus, and he panicked.
D- The Federal Police is approaching in two lines of investigation that will prove his and his son's involvement with crimes. One leads towards his links with Police Militias (aka Organized Crime), ghost appointees, corruption and funds deviation. the other one is reaching what we call now the "Hate Cabinet", an organized virtual group, probably funded illegally with both public and defrauded campaign money (and possibly foreign funds too), with the purpose of creating fake news against opponents, bullying and threatening adversaries and politicians, spreading illegal propaganda in both internet and real world.
This led to him forcing the Justice Minister to resign, when he denounced the attempt to obstruct the investigations by the Federal Police. But make no mistake, the ex-Minister Sergio Moro is as dangerous to the rule of law as Bolsonaro, but he knows that the president has no democratic future, and wants himself to be a presidential candidate on the next election. He panicked.
All of this during a pandemic.
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