LEADERS
In times of crisis, nations turn to their political leaders for strength and guidance. The pandemic has been marked by wildly differing political responses from the world’s leaders, which include some of the most recognizable faces in the world, now concealed behind protective masks. Some leaders have garnered widespread praise for their tough but necessary actions by shutting down most of society to slow the spread of the disease. Others have been derided for their relative lack of action or denial of the severity of the disease.
BOLSONARO PROTESTS
As Covid-19 accelerated across the world and most governments imposed strict lockdown measures to contain the pandemic, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro continued to downplay the disease’s severity and refused to order a nationwide shutdown. Ignoring pleas from his regional governors and health officials while thousands of people were dying of coronavirus and case numbers in Brazil were surging, he continued holding public rallies for thousands of his loyal supporters, who turned out en masse to pledge their support and accuse the country’s Congress and Supreme Court of conspiring against Bolsonaro. Eventually, the president himself would catch the disease, which he once dismissed as a “little flu”. With over 2.7 million confirmed cases and nearly 100,000 deaths, Brazil is now the second worst affected nation in the world after the US. Bolsonaro’s response to Covid-19 has appalled millions of Brazilians, who have also taken to the streets in their thousands to demand his impeachment and condemn what they see as his racist and fascist regime
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