Wash your hands

Often, washing your hands can be a way of allowing a virus to spread.

That's how Pontius Pilate gave the signal for the hatred of a bloodthirsty mob to spread, washing his hands and freeing a confessed criminal while condemning a man who hadn't even been tried yet. 

Once the contagion had spread, the crowd went out spitting and cursing the comrade in the streets, cross on his shoulder, mocking him mercilessly until the fatal hour, hanging on the cross.

I say this to say something else.

The idiocy, cataloged by the venerable Master Cafuna as the evil of the century, went viral and spread like an epidemic in these parts when the media washed its hands of the truth and began to lie mercilessly.

Turning a blind eye to the truth is one of the first symptoms of the illness.

Taking advantage of the cognitive impairment of the idiotic herd and with their hands stained with hatred against a political enemy, the media began to spread fake news.

Who doesn't remember the Veja magazine cover, "They knew"? That was utter fake news, distributed like alfalfa to feed the idiotic masses.

Even before that, we had the fake news about the false urban yellow fever epidemic created in the newsrooms of Folha de S.Paulo, where the shameful false report about Dilma Rousseff was also produced.

Globo, for its part, played a role by exaggerating the blame for the Gol and TAM plane crashes; who could forget that?

When Judith Brito (president of the National Association of Newspapers and executive of the Folha Group) sounded the anti-PT (Workers' Party) horn, saying that the press had assumed the role of the opposition in Brazil, the herd mooed in unison, and everyone stopped caring about the truth.

What this woman did was bring a huge basin for the editors to wash their hands of factual truths in the name of a redeeming lie.

They also created half-truths, such as the "fiscal maneuvers," which is a lie disguised with peroba oil.

The Supreme Court, covered by a colorful tarp, washed its hands of the court jester's delinquencies, giving him the opportunity to commit crimes as if he were telling a joke.

The National Congress, which is a big mess, also got involved in Judith Brito's scheme, and we began to naturally coexist with post-truth, and the afflicted soon began to exhibit new symptoms: creationism, flat-earth theory, vaccine phobia, butt-ology, homophobia, hate phobia, etc.

The case was brought before the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), and, faced with the blatant lies spread via WhatsApp by the candidate who doesn't bleed, it feigned ignorance.

This inept man who leads us today is a product of this despicable method.

A liar to the bone, he was treated like a braggart, a buffoon who produced laughter while spewing hatred, as if he were a clown expelling talcum powder from that one part of his body where the sun doesn't shine.

Today he owns the circus and, whip in hand, manipulates the trained animals in this great ring that Brazil has become.

He gave the finger to Judith Brito's group and, like a crow plucking out its creator's eyes, created his own network of fake news, accusing the liars of yesteryear of continuing to lie now, this being the only truth he tells.

Without control of the narrative, Judith Brito's group began accusing the crow of being the liar, but now his lie is the truth, and the truths that the media tries to tell are seen as lies.

In their fits of rage, the sick emit confusing signals. They applauded Caiado yesterday and, immediately afterwards, began to boo him.

Things seem to be spiraling out of control, but there's still a way out: Cafunismo.

Frota, Lobão, and other individuals afflicted by idiocy, after receiving a few slaps on the behind at the Cafunagem Tent, were cured and today can cough and spit without causing fright in crowds.

But there is still much work to be done and much to be done, the illness is out of control, things have turned into a complete mess, and nobody knows anymore what is true and what is false.

In short, Brazil today is like Drauzio Varella embracing a transgender pedophile.

The word of salvation.