Meanwhile in Brazil, Bolsonaro blames the deaths on the governors who enforce lockdowns. Yeah, logic ain´t his forte. As a matter of fact, he is promoting civil unrest and disobedience. In the middle of a pandemic. And does not care about the dead, just as he did not care about the fire.
Bust-up in Brasília
Jair Bolsonaro’s dangerous divorce
Brazil’s justice minister storms out, calling the president a scofflaw
ON APRIL 19TH Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, climbed onto a lorry outside army headquarters in Brasília to fire up protesters who were calling for a shutdown of Congress and the Supreme Court. Soon after, according to Folha de S. Paulo, a newspaper, he learned that federal police were investigating allegations that one of his sons, Carlos, runs an online fake-news network that may have inspired the protest. On April 24th Mr Bolsonaro sacked the head of the federal police. Hours later the justice minister, Sérgio Moro, resigned. He accused the president on television of “political interference” in the police to shield his family.
Mr Moro’s resignation is the biggest political blow to Mr Bolsonaro since he became president at the beginning of 2019. An army captain turned congressman, Mr Bolsonaro rose from obscurity by exploiting anger at corruption. His appointment as justice minister of Mr Moro, a judge who jailed scores of politicians and businessmen as leader of the Lava Jato (Car Wash) anti-corruption investigations, signalled his determination to fight graft. Now Mr Moro, a hero to many Brazilians, has accused his former boss of obstructing justice. If an investigation backs that claim, Mr Bolsonaro could be impeached
“A clinical expert panel on Wednesday also concluded that recovered coronavirus patients who later test positive for the virus again were not “reactivated” or reinfected, but were false positives.”
“Weapons of Mass Destruction” was coined for, and applied to, atomic bombs and radiological weapons (‘dirty bombs’) from 1945 to 2001, when George W. Bush muddied the term to apply to Saddam’s use of gas against his own people and Iran to stampede the American people to war- and added ‘biological’ to the mix because ooh, scary. It’s propaganda.
“Weapon” implies corona virus was being studied for military purposes- either offensive or defensive- and is again used to skip over the question of whether the Wuhan lab was studying the disease for control reasons- which is certainly possible. There is no evidence it was being used for military reasons.
“Is there anyway someone could weaponize the bird flu ?”
“Someone doesn’t have to weaponize bird flu . The birds are doing that.”.- Contagion