Bolsonaro attends floating barbecue as Brazil's Covid-19 toll tops 10,000

[Judi Lynn]

Outcry over president’s jet-ski outing in which he dismissed coronavirus fears as neurosis

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Sun 10 May 2020 10.53 EDT

Brazil’s provocateur president has continued to brush off the coronavirus, taking a spin on a jet-ski to a floating barbecue and attacking Covid-19 “neurosis” as his country’s death toll rose to more than 10,000.

Jair Bolsonaro has faced domestic and international condemnation for his dismissive attitude toward the pandemic. The rightwing populist continues to play down the disease despite the growing evidence of its deadly impact on Brazil.

On Saturday morning, the public outcry appeared, finally, to be having an effect, after Bolsonaro scrapped a barbecue and kick-about he had intended to hold at his presidential palace, in violation of his own health ministry’s recommendations.

Critics called it his “barbecue of death”, and one broadsheet used its front page to note that while Bolsonaro had bragged he would invite 1,300 people, he had visited no hospitals, met no frontline medical workers and held no meetings with the families of the thousands of Brazilians who have died.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/bolsonaro-attends-floating-barbeque-as-brazils-covid-19-toll-tops-10000

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Are they serving cake?

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2. sounds familiar