Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who in late March referred to COVID-19 as a 'little cold,' is enjoying his highest approval ratings and a tiny percentage of residents who blame him for the world's second highest toll death.
Pollsters who conducted the surveys of 2,065 Brazilian residents between August 11-12 said the president's popularity is potentially tied to emergency payments received throughout the country in recent weeks. Low-income workers have been collecting benefits that are set to expire in September, Reuters reported Saturday morning. The Brazilian federal government is currently deciding whether to extend the payments or not.
Thirty-seven percent of Brazilian residents in this most recent August poll rated Bolsonaro's term as great or good, a five percent increase from June numbers.Bolsonaro and several of his top aides met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in early March. A photograph taken at the time showed several officials holding a"Make Brazil Great Again" hat while standing alongside Vice President Mike Pence and the Brazilian president himself.
"The virus is here, we're going to have to confront it. Confront it like a man, not a boy!" Bolsonaro told supporters outside is residence in March."Most of the media has been countervailing. They spread the sensation of dread, with their flagship the high number of victims in Italy. The perfect scenario to be used by the media to spread hysteria.
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