Going out or not, the barbecue is a macabre landmark

At this point, it doesn’t matter if Jair Bolsonaro is really going to light the grill and put meat on the grill. Nor does it change the fact that there are no alcoholic beverages on the barbecue, animatedly announced for two days by the President of the Republic of Brazil at the end of the worst week of the new coronavirus pandemic.

Alvorada’s barbecue is already inscribed on the timeline of Bolsonaro’s regrettable statements amid the national emergency. And look, this macabre timeline includes incredible speeches and acts. Namely:

1. the first in a series of trips to the Planalto Palace over the weekend, even on March 15, to fraternize with gathered protesters and shout slogans against other branches of government and in favor of coup theses, such as military intervention ;
2. pronouncement on the national radio and television network calling the pandemic covid-19 cold and cold;
3. attempt to smuggle in a provisional measure the permission to revoke the decisions of the states and municipalities in the same pandemic;
4. he rides without concern for distance, wearing a mask or concern for people, only to mark the point that he is against social distance and that the economy must reopen;
5. march with business lobbyists to the STF to press for another Power to reopen the economy by force while it is still at the peak of the pandemic;
6. resignation of the Minister of Health amid a pandemic due to jealousy and the Minister of Justice a week later for failing to fulfill his determination to change the command of the Federal Police and give him access to consultations and reports.

The list does not end there. Only incredible sentences would make an anthology. That is why making a barbecue or not is not the only serious thing about this chapter written by the work and grace of Bolsonaro, without the opposition having to move a straw. Just to consider the possibility, or to play with it, the president already offends the families who lost their loved ones to the virus, the memory of more than 10,000 deaths and those who must lead in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. , but that prefers to face daily.

And there is no point in canceling the irrigation and then saying that the press misrepresents what it says, which of course I was joking. This joke embodies intolerable cynicism on the part of a head of state in any civilized and democratic country.