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Re:Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising dea... by tarsiswt on Sunday June 07, 2020 @09:55AM (#23447348)
Things are looking pretty grim. The president insists on downplaying the disease and keep making appearances on anti-democratic rallies -- against recommendations from his own health ministry, mind you. Many brazillians have somewhat nostalgic feelings towards the military dictatorship and I feel like that has gotten worse. Everything is just highly polarized and the pandemic is discussed mostly in terms of politics. Maybe that's just the bubble I'm in but I can't help the feeling that the worst is yet to come.
Re:Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising dea... by ufo on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:00AM (#23447387)
> against recommendations from his own health ministry,

Not anymore, now that Bolsonaro has fired two (!) health ministers and put a worthless yes-man in charge.

And we thought it was bad enough when he fired the first health minister to put a yes-man in his place. It turned out that the first yes-man wasn't spineless enough for Bolsonaro so he also got fired.

Re:Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising dea... by marcosdumay on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:21PM (#23449941)
> and put a worthless yes-man in charge

Wait, when did he put somebody in charge? I though the position was empty.

Re:Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising dea... by ufo on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:33PM (#23450548)
Gen. Pazuello, who has been in charge since Teich resigned, has now been officially elevated to "interim minister". It isn't supposed to be a permanent position though so it would also be valid to say that the position is still vacant.

https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/06/03/ha-quase-vi...