Thread by @leticiakawano

1/ A 🧵 on the #pandemicide in 🇧🇷

* Pandemicide: The willful act of ignoring pandemic spread to selectively eliminate those who it will affect most..low and middle-income folks and racialized persons @DrBarbKing

Bolsonaro: "Only the weak dye of Covid19"
euronews.com/2020/04/06/a-l…

2/ The word pandemicide seems to have been used for the first time by @Laurie_Garrett to describe the 🇺🇸 Covid19 situation under the Trump administration
#pandemicide

I do like the term, but let's not forget that pandemicide, at least in 🇧🇷, refers to...

https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1362546800503246852

3/ ...An eugenic genocide as an attempt to get rid of the most vulnerable and poorer. It has been disguised under the herd immunity debate, at least by some here in Brazil.

This is not a figure of speech. Please follow me in this thread:

Osmar Terra, 12h ago tweeted:

4/ First, by now (2 years as President) we all had enough in Brazil of all the references to nazism that Bolsonaro, his sons, and his closest men (Ernesto Araujo) use in official speeches of propaganda 😱 like nazi slogans, nazi songs etc

jpost.com/diaspora/antis…

5/ Second, his apology to physical violence as a solution (a mind that operates in great physicality - lack of abstract solution or refined thinking).

Use of dehumanizing language (and we know where it ends = violence)
...

https://twitter.com/CluselAndres/status/1368181622424633351

6/ Plus a complete lack of respect (concern) for what he defines as "the others", as opposed to "me myself and mine"

That is the perfect mindset to consent killings.

And so came Covid19, a disease that strikes harder at older people, those w comorbidities, and the poor

7/ Since the beginning of the pandemic, Bolsonaro speaks against masks, vaccines, and social distancing.

Even now, when the whole country is close to a healthcare system collapse, he insists people should go out and work ("bringing home food")...

nytimes.com/2021/03/06/wor…

8/ Bolsonaro explains there is no need for social distancing, because "we have IVERMECTIN, HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE to protect Brazilians, so hello, everyone: "Normal life, here we go!"

Not to mention his fixation on unproven treatments.

Why?

...

9/ Think w me: you could be worried about the economic impacts of lockdowns, but that does not justify being against masks and vaccines...or to go after ineffective treatments

Unless you celebrate Covid19 deaths...

economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral…

10/ Letting people dye, especially "the others" (those that you don't care about) is not only desirable but much cheaper than buying vaccines, no?

Why would someone w the mindset of Bolsonaro consider protecting the whole population?

g1.globo.com/politica/notic…

11/ Indigenous people are terribly suffering:
Bolsonaro is trying what he can to allow Covid19 to kill them.
Reason: he wants their influence on Forest conservation to be finished and Covid19 is here "to help" #Ecocide

reuters.com/article/us-hea…

12/ This is what is going on in Brazil. Please #standwithBrazil, a beautiful country of cheerful people undergoing an eugenic genocide.

I am super sad, and I am not silence.
Speak up, those who can!

13/ Apologies, there's a typo in this thread:
where you read dye, you should read die

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