{"id":137491,"date":"2020-03-25T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/25\/bolsonaro-says-he-wouldnt-feel-anything-if-infected-with-covid-19-and-attacks-state-lockdowns\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T02:55:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:55:44","slug":"bolsonaro-says-he-wouldnt-feel-anything-if-infected-with-covid-19-and-attacks-state-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=137491","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro says he &#039;wouldn&#039;t feel anything&#039; if infected with Covid-19 and attacks state lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s president uses national televised address to dismiss state-based health measures \u2018scorched earth\u2019 tactics Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBrazil\u2019s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has claimed he \u201cwouldn\u2019t feel anything\u201d if infected with coronavirus and rubbished efforts to contain the illness with large-scale quarantines as his country\u2019s two biggest cities went into shutdown in a desperate bid to save lives.In a televised address to the nation on Tuesday night, Bolsonaro slammed what he branded the economically damaging \u201cscorched earth\u201d tactics being used to slow the advance of an illness that has now claimed about 15,000 lives around the world. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/bolsonaro-brazil-wouldnt-feel-anything-covid-19-attack-state-lockdowns\" target=\"_blank\">Bolsonaro says he &#039;wouldn&#039;t feel anything&#039; if infected with Covid-19 and attacks state lockdowns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s president uses national televised address to dismiss state-based health measures \u2018scorched earth\u2019 tactics Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBrazil\u2019s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has claimed he \u201cwouldn\u2019t feel anything\u201d if infected with coronavirus and rubbished efforts to contain the illness with large-scale quarantines as his country\u2019s two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}