
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro: We Must Not Deal With Covid Like ‘A Country Of Sissies’
Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday that Brazilians must not deal with the coronavirus like “a country of sissies.”
AFP translated “sissies” as “fags,” though that has been disputed:
“All anyone talks about these days is the pandemic. We need to stop that,” said Bolsonaro during the speech […]
“I regret the deaths. I really do. But we’re all going to die someday. There’s no use fleeing reality. We have to stop being a country of fags…. We have to face up to it and fight. I hate this faggot stuff.”
It was the latest in a long list of controversial statements on the pandemic from Bolsonaro, who has condemned the “hysteria” around Covid-19, compared the new coronavirus to a “little flu” and asserted that Brazilians’ immune systems were so strong they could swim in raw sewage and “not catch a thing.”
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