The president of the Palmares Foundation, who has previously denied racism, says that isolation is the greatest "imbecility in history."
The president of the Palmares Foundation, Sérgio Nascimento de Camargo, who has previously denied the existence of racism in Brazil, used social media to say that the isolation measures imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are "imbecilic" and "need to be suspended immediately."
247 - Following Jair Bolsonaro's lead, the president of the Palmares Foundation, Sérgio Nascimento de Camargo, who has already denied the existence of racism in Brazil, used social media to downplay the risk of the coronavirus, which has already infected and killed thousands of people worldwide. According to him, isolation – a measure indicated by health authorities as the most effective way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 – is "imbecilic" and "needs to be suspended immediately."
"They confined 99% of the population to their homes to defeat a virus that kills around 1% of those infected. Isolation, except for those in the at-risk group, needs to be immediately suspended. It's the biggest stupidity in the history of humanity! Back to work, Brazilians!", he wrote on Twitter. According to Camargo, "the left is using the coronavirus as a shortcut to turn Brazil into a Venezuela. We will not allow it!".