The madmen are running rampant throughout the country.

Brazil continues adrift, sailing aimlessly at the mercy of its leader's madness. Where are we going? Nobody knows. Who's in charge? That's also unknown. Everyone's in charge, and the chaos is total. In truth, Brazil has become a giant madhouse. The lunatics are running rampant, and there are lunatics everywhere, for every taste. It's clear that there are a lot of insane people working in the country, including in public office and in the media. For example: Education Minister Weintraub decided to gratuitously attack China, Brazil's largest trading partner, without caring about the damage this could cause to trade between the two countries. In the media, a Nazi known as Marcão do Povo, host of an SBT program, suggested to the President the creation of a concentration camp to house all those infected with the coronavirus, in addition to putting the Army on the streets to arrest governors. Another well-known presenter, Datena, suggested that Bolsonaro "kick out" Mandetta, the minister leading the fight against the coronavirus. The captain, expelled from the Army for his madness, had the power to bring out of the shadows, with his election to the Presidency of the Republic, all the lunatics who until then lived in darkness, confirming the physics principle that "like attracts like". 

If Brazil were truly a serious country today, all these people, including the fanatics who use social media to spread lies and threaten anyone who opposes the captain, would be committed to psychiatric clinics, just as the Germans did with the lawyer who denied the pandemic and campaigned against the government's measures to protect the people. Instead of field hospitals to house those infected with COVID-19, emergency asylums would be built throughout the country to attend to the enormous number of lunatics scattered across the national territory, including that doctor from Imperatriz, in Maranhão, who said that this panic about the coronavirus is the work of "leftists." Surprisingly, there are still many people who are haunted by old communism, like Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, attributing the pandemic to communist maneuvers to dominate the world. That's just madness. 

Another one who needs a psychiatric evaluation is Congressman Osmar Terra, who dreams of the Ministry of Health after being ousted from the Ministry of Citizenship, and continues to flatter Bolsonaro by defending the end of social isolation. In the same camp is Governor Zema of Minas Gerais, who recently defended relaxing isolation measures, believing that "it's necessary to let the virus circulate." Meanwhile, the president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, in a lecture to investors, according to journalist Amanda Audi of The Intercept Brazil, also defended ending the quarantine. According to her report, "in Campos Neto's cold logic, the faster new cases and deaths from COVID-19 occur, the better for the economy. More important is that industry continues producing and selling. Even if this causes the collapse of hospitals and the public health system, forcing doctors to choose who to treat and who to let die, it's a reasonable price to pay in the name of profit," she wrote. A person in full possession of their mental health would never think that way: profit is more important than life. 

The military within the government, previously seen as the balancing point of the Executive branch, seems, contrary to expectations, to endorse the president's insane behavior, including the dismissal of Mandetta from the Ministry of Health. Even Vice President Mourão, who acts as the head of state, shares Bolsonaro's position, criticizing the minister for his interview on Fantástico. Only Justice Minister Sergio Moro prefers to remain distant from the president, avoiding expressing opinions for or against him so as not to alienate the president or society. "I can't arrest the virus," he quipped, justifying his detachment, but he can take measures to protect prisoners and indigenous people from contagion, which he hasn't done so far. Moro, in fact, focused on popularity, seems more concerned with staying away from Bolsonaro than from the coronavirus, which could put him in line, right behind Mandetta, to be ousted from the government. If he is dismissed, he will not be missed, because in more than a year at the Ministry of Justice he has done absolutely nothing to justify his appointment to the position, not even locating and arresting Queiroz and the criminals who use the Internet to spread fake news.

The example, in fact, comes from the top. Bolsonaro has long done nothing but fraternize with his followers at the gates of the Alvorada Palace, contributing to the spread of the virus by promoting gatherings in the streets to test his popularity, and promoting the drug manufactured by one of Donald Trump's companies, Chloroquine. He left the task of governing the country to General Braga Neto. And the general has already used his power to dismiss special advisor Felipe Cruz, who attacked governors and mayors over social isolation. How long this situation will last, nobody knows, especially since the powers that, constitutionally, could put an end to this madness – the Legislative and the Judiciary – are not showing any willingness to do anything to remove the captain, which makes them complicit in his follies. To remove Dilma from office, alleged "fiscal maneuvers" were enough—a mere pretext for the coup—while in Bolsonaro's case, there are plenty of real grounds for impeachment, but the head of Congress, Rodrigo Maia, refuses to accept any requests because "it brings bad luck." The most idiotic excuse for someone who doesn't want to become incompatible with the Bolsonaro supporters. And Brazil continues adrift.