02:06President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro said that Brazil has to "quit being a country of sissies" and face the pandemic 'head-on,' in a press conference in Brasilia, on Tuesday.
"Everything now is about the pandemic, this thing has to stop. I'm sorry for the dead, I'm sorry. We're all gonna die one day, everybody in here is going to die," Bolsonaro told the press in a ceremony to launch a tourism programme.
The president said the pandemic was 'overrated' and claimed, "everything I was saying about the virus back there, and I was beaten like a mangy dog outside the church, it proves to be true."
Bolsonaro also said that complaining about hate speech is a 'sissy thing,' adding that at his time in school, "bullying was beating. Now if you call a guy fat, it's bullying."
In his tourism programme launch speech, Bolsonaro also took an indirect swipe at US President-Elect Joe Biden's recent remarks on possible sanctions against Brazil if the country doesn't fight deforestation in the Amazon.
"We have just seen a great candidate for state leader say that if I do not put out the fire in the Amazon, he will raise trade barriers against Brazil. And how can we stand up to all this? Diplomacy alone does not work," Bolsonaro told the press, adding that "when the saliva runs out, you got to have gunpowder."
Brazil: We have to 'quit being a country of sissies' - Bolsonaro on COVID-19
President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro said that Brazil has to "quit being a country of sissies" and face the pandemic 'head-on,' in a press conference in Brasilia, on Tuesday.
"Everything now is about the pandemic, this thing has to stop. I'm sorry for the dead, I'm sorry. We're all gonna die one day, everybody in here is going to die," Bolsonaro told the press in a ceremony to launch a tourism programme.
The president said the pandemic was 'overrated' and claimed, "everything I was saying about the virus back there, and I was beaten like a mangy dog outside the church, it proves to be true."
Bolsonaro also said that complaining about hate speech is a 'sissy thing,' adding that at his time in school, "bullying was beating. Now if you call a guy fat, it's bullying."
In his tourism programme launch speech, Bolsonaro also took an indirect swipe at US President-Elect Joe Biden's recent remarks on possible sanctions against Brazil if the country doesn't fight deforestation in the Amazon.
"We have just seen a great candidate for state leader say that if I do not put out the fire in the Amazon, he will raise trade barriers against Brazil. And how can we stand up to all this? Diplomacy alone does not work," Bolsonaro told the press, adding that "when the saliva runs out, you got to have gunpowder."
President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro said that Brazil has to "quit being a country of sissies" and face the pandemic 'head-on,' in a press conference in Brasilia, on Tuesday.
"Everything now is about the pandemic, this thing has to stop. I'm sorry for the dead, I'm sorry. We're all gonna die one day, everybody in here is going to die," Bolsonaro told the press in a ceremony to launch a tourism programme.
The president said the pandemic was 'overrated' and claimed, "everything I was saying about the virus back there, and I was beaten like a mangy dog outside the church, it proves to be true."
Bolsonaro also said that complaining about hate speech is a 'sissy thing,' adding that at his time in school, "bullying was beating. Now if you call a guy fat, it's bullying."
In his tourism programme launch speech, Bolsonaro also took an indirect swipe at US President-Elect Joe Biden's recent remarks on possible sanctions against Brazil if the country doesn't fight deforestation in the Amazon.
"We have just seen a great candidate for state leader say that if I do not put out the fire in the Amazon, he will raise trade barriers against Brazil. And how can we stand up to all this? Diplomacy alone does not work," Bolsonaro told the press, adding that "when the saliva runs out, you got to have gunpowder."