Bolsonaro's response to the coronavirus was a "disaster," says the mayor of Belo Horizonte.
The mayor of Belo Horizonte, Alexandre Kalil, criticized Jair Bolsonaro for underestimating the coronavirus. "The negativity was a disaster for Brazil," he stated. According to the mayor, "national leadership was sorely lacking."
247 - The mayor of Belo Horizonte, Alexandre Kalil (PSD), described Jair Bolsonaro's stance of denying the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic as a "disaster." "The negativism was a disaster for Brazil," stated the head of the municipal executive.
"Now, trillions have to be poured into spending on a 'little flu' that isn't really a 'little flu.' If it were, there wouldn't be all this expense," he added in an interview published by [source name]. newspaper Estado de Minas this Wednesday (1).
According to the mayor, "national leadership was sorely missed." "It's a stance, it seems to me, unique in the world. So much so that the Supreme Court's decision, of 'every man for himself and God for all,' came from this negativism," he stated.
On the 22nd, Bolsonaro stated that "perhaps there was a bit of exaggeration" in the way the pandemic was handled.
He even went so far as to classify Covid-19 as a "little flu", in March, and asked "So what?" when questioned about the five thousand deaths from the disease in April.