Jair Bolsonaro wants Brazil to 'fight' COVID-19, says stop being a 'country of fags'

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro received widespre backlash for a new set of ‘derogatory’ homophobic remarks as he urged people to t deal with COVID-19 pandemic like "a country of fags.” far-right leer, who has alrey deted vel coronavirus infection as a “little flu” before being diagsed with COVID-19 and downplayed its severity, said on vember 10 that se days everyone keeps talking about global health crisis. While COVID-19 death toll in Brazil is 162,802 as per Johns Hopkins University tally, Bolsonaro urged Brazilians to stop talking only about pandemic.

Ackwledging that he ‘regrets’ deaths that have been caused by vel virus, Bolsonaro goes on to say that everybody is eventually going to die and thus, Brazil has to stop being country of “fags”. He urged people to face health crisis and put up a fight and said, “I hate this faggot stuff.” se are latest controversial statements that Bolsonaro dressed public with after previously deuncing “hysteria” around pandemic. 

“All anyone talks about se days is pandemic. We need to stop that,” said Bolsonaro during speech, which was seemingly on tourism.

“I regret deaths. I really do. But we're all going to die someday. re's use fleeing reality. We have to stop being a country of fags...We have to face up to it and fight. I hate this faggot stuff.”

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Between ‘gunpowder’ and ‘fags’, people died

Amid thousands of people who condemned Brazilian President’s remarks was speaker of lower house of Congress, Rodrigo Maia who took to Twitter to say that between ‘gunpowder’ and ‘fags’ more than 160,000 people have lost ir lives. From crippling ecomy to or challenges budded from COVID-19 pandemic, Maia listed m and on behalf of Chamber of Deputies, offered condolences to people who died while reaffirming commitment to vaccine. 

Maia said, “Between gunpowder, sissies and risk of hyperinflation, we have more than 160 thousand de in country, a fragile ecomy and a state in dark. On behalf of Chamber of Deputies, I reaffirm our commitment to vaccine, independence of regulatory bodies and fiscal responsibility.”

“And to all relatives and friends of victims of covid-19 our solidarity,” he ded.

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