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Things are looking pretty grim. The president insists on downplaying the disease and keep making appearances on anti-democratic rallies -- against recommendatio

Things are looking pretty grim. The president insists on downplaying the disease and keep making appearances on anti-democratic rallies -- against recommendations from his own health ministry, mind you. Many brazillians have somewhat nostalgic feelings towards the military dictatorship and I feel like that has gotten worse. Everything is just highly polarized and the pandemic is discussed mostly in terms of politics. Maybe that's just the bubble I'm in but I can't help the feeling that the worst is yet to come.

ufo 6y ago
> against recommendations from his own health ministry, Not anymore, now that Bolsonaro has fired two (!) health ministers and put a worthless yes-man in charge. And we thought it was bad enough when he fired the first health minister to put a yes-man in his place. It turned out that the first yes-man wasn't spineless enough for Bolsonaro so he also got fired.
- marcosdumay 6y ago
  > and put a worthless yes-man in charge Wait, when did he put somebody in charge? I though the position was empty.
  - ufo 6y ago
    Gen. Pazuello, who has been in charge since Teich resigned, has now been officially elevated to "interim minister". It isn't supposed to be a permanent position though so it would also be valid to say that the position is still vacant. https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/06/03/ha-quase-vinte-dias-no-cargo-pazuello-e-oficializado-ministro-interino-da-saude.ghtml https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/06/03/ha-quase-vi...