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"Earlier this year, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro mocked the claim that
his administration’s reckless handling of the coronavirus pandemic—which has
entailed everything from straight denialism to promoting a cocktail of miracle
drugs—was tantamount to genocide. Well, the Brazilian Senate has now concluded
he is guilty of both genocide and regular old mass murder.
According to the New York Times, legislators assigned to the congressional
investigation have determined in a draft report that Bolsonaro deliberately let
the novel coronavirus rip through the Brazilian population, killing hundreds of
thousands, as part of a plan to achieve “herd immunity”—the point where so many
people have contracted a pathogen that it struggles to find new hosts who
haven’t already fought it off. Herd immunity is a real thing, but throughout
the pandemic, right-wingers and quacks alike advocated that the way to get
there was sitting by and letting the virus wreak havoc in the meantime. Let
corona eat cake, if you will.
The Times writes that the nearly 1,200-page draft report, which could still be
modified before its official release, points the finger at Bolsonaro for the
death of more than 300,000 Brazilians. That amounts to around half of the
estimated death toll in the country. The report also states that Bolsonaro’s
administration committed genocide against the indigenous populations of the
Amazon rainforest. Hospitals there infamously faced months-long shortages of
oxygen for ventilators while Bolsonaro insisted he could do nothing (aside, of
course, from helping set the entire region on fire by gutting environmental
regulations and enabling criminal gangs to pillage and murder anyone standing
in the way of strip-mining its resources).
According to excerpts of the report obtained by the Times and its interviews
with two senators on the committee, the report strongly urges Brazilian
authorities to lock him and 69 other Bolsonaro administration officials up."
Via Lisa Stranger.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
