Bolsonarism cannot be contained even with social isolation.
"The more than fatal encounter between the new coronavirus and Bolsonaro's ignorance is perhaps the most dramatic civilizational clash in the world today," writes Leandro Fortes of Journalists for Democracy.
By Leandro Fortes, for o Journalists for Democracy The more than fatal encounter between the new coronavirus and Bolsonaro's ignorance is perhaps the most dramatic civilizational clash in the world today. This is because, unlike the virus, Bolsonarism cannot be contained even with social isolation, since it is a highly infectious mental illness transmitted, above all, through digital networks. It is impossible to stop, through social isolation, a disease whose contagion occurs through the absence of rationality.
Furthermore, this epidemic of ignorance and stupidity has gone beyond the ideological issue itself. The "Bolsominions," that almost affectionate term we give to wild beasts, form a contingent of highly frustrated, unhappy, and hate-filled people who were activated on social media by the narrative of a demented man surrounded by far-right adventurers.
Only this can explain a family tearing off a doctor's mask in a fit of rage, outraged by a diagnosis of suspected Covid-19. cause of death From a relative, in a public hospital. Shouting, ready to beat the doctor, the mob demanded the removal of the record simply because he decided to ignore a scientific protocol. A people motivated by the imbecile they venerate. This one, who spits on his arm and then greets the elderly – the group most vulnerable to the pandemic – in criminal gatherings.
We also witnessed the macabre dance of feeble-minded individuals on Paulista Avenue, mocking the deaths caused by Covid-19, with coffins on their shoulders.
And the deranged woman from Araraquara, in the interior of São Paulo, arrested and handcuffed in a public square for refusing to comply with the municipal order of social isolation. For her, as for all Bolsonaro supporters, there is a communist conspiracy behind the coronavirus pandemic.
Which brings us to another question, perhaps our most important mission for the future, in the short and medium term.
What are we going to do with these people when all this madness is over? How do you cure idiots? Will there be a chloroquine for that?
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.