After a speech made by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, today, at the Workers' Union Central (CUT), the political chessboard in Brazil completely changed. The Workers Party lider defended vaccines, social isolation, sympathized with the families of the more than 260 thousand victims. On the same day, goverment members — including the president Jair Bolsonaro, a world-renowned denialist —, appeared all masked, defending vaccines, and promising to tackle the pandemic.
Now, the strategy of denialism as a policy adopted by Bolsonaro during the pandemic, with the trivialization of deaths and the naturalization of the cleavage between the economy and combating the pandemic — as if they were opposite things — changed drastically.
The former Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, criticized the government of President Bolsonaro for not wearing the mask, drinking and going to celebrations, fighting with scientists. For Lula, Bolsonaro committed a number of impeachable acts.
Lula da Silva practically forced Bolsonaro to adopt a more civilized stance in the face of the covid-19 pandemic.
