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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro again caused controversy on Tuesday when he stated that Brazil “must stop being a country of ‘ladybugs'”, referring to the fear around the pandemic of Covid-19.
Everything is now a pandemic. You have to end this business. I’m sorry for the dead, I’m sorry. We will all die one day. There is no use running away from it, fleeing from reality. [O Brasil] It has to stop being a country of ‘ladybugs’, ”Bolsonaro said at a tourism event organized by the federal government.
“Look what a full plate for the press, for the ‘vulture’ [expressão usada para adjetivar pessoas que desejam o mal de outros] what’s back there [jornalistas]. We have to fight. Open chest, fight ”, added the head of state, in another criticism of the media, which he accuses of denigrating his image.
In the event called “Resumption of tourism”, Bolsonaro defended again that the current pandemic was “oversized” and criticized those who mentioned the possibility of a second wave of the disease in the South American country.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Jair Bolsonaro has been quite skeptical about the severity of the disease and has opposed social isolation, having even declared that Brazil is among the countries that suffered the least from Covid-19.
However, Brazil, with 212 million inhabitants, is the The Portuguese-speaking country most affected by the pandemic and one of the most affected in the world, when counting the second number of deaths (more than 5.6 million cases and 162,628 deaths), after the United States.
Addressing businessmen in the tourism sector in Brazil, the President deplored the losses that the pandemic generated in the sector and blamed taxes and environmental decrees for damaging business in the country.
You were on canvas [estado de rotura] in this pandemic. That was oversized. Tomorrow’s headline: ‘Ah, Bolsonaro has no affection, he has no feelings for those who died.’ I have feelings for everyone who died. But [foi] oversized ”, stressed the representative.
“Tourism stopped and went to the canvas. I am concerned about the businessmen of the sector, but there is much that does not depend on me, but on the parliament and state governments, “he said, also criticizing the” excess of rules and fees “that are applied in the sector.
Tourism revenue in Brazil, one of the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, decreased by 33.6% between January and August this year, compared to the same period in 2019, according to a survey published last month. .
The survey, carried out by the Federation of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism of the State of São Paulo (FecomercioSP), based on data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), shows that the negative result was mainly due to a 68.8% drop in air travel and a 43.2% decrease in accommodation and restaurants.
