Brazil's death toll has surpassed 22,000 and any semblance of President Jair Bolsonaro’s personal responsibility has evaporated
These days, the simple act of wearing a mask -- or not -- has devolved into partisan debate not just in the U.S. but in other countries as well.
When governors defied Bolsonaro’s subsequent decree that gyms, barbershops and beauty salons be allowed to operate as essential services, he accused them of undermining the rule of law and suggested the move would invite “undesirable authoritarianism to emerge in Brazil.” Supporters of Bolsonaro scream at journalists Monday outside the president’s official residence in Brasilia.
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