Read more about Bolsonaro’s disregard for face masks [1] [2] [3], remind past weeks when he discredited health recommendations [find out here] [find out here] and see all the present acts against the recommendations here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Bolsonaro has started changing his rhetoric regarding vaccines in March, 2021, bust still claims social isolation and restrictive measures disregard personal freedom and still promotes ‘early treatment’ [4]
Acts that employ tools of constant authoritarian reinvention. Authoritarian manifestations that coexist with the democratic regime and affect democracy as a system of choice of legitimate representatives or as institutional dynamics that protect rights and guarantee pluralism.
Acts justified by tackling the covid-19 pandemic or another emergency. Under the democratic constitutional regime, emergency acts must respect the Constitution and protect the rights to life and health. Even so, because they create exceptional restrictions related to the health crisis, they require constant control over their necessity, proportionality and temporal limitation. In the long run, they demand attention so as not to become an anti-democratic 'new normal' beyond the moment of emergency.