COVID-19: Scientific Arguments, Denialism, Eugenics, and the Construction of the Antisocial Distancing Discourse in Brazil

Malinverni, Cláudia; Brigagão, Jacqueline Isaac Machado

doi:10.3389/fcomm.2020.582963

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“…Of which, a range of critiques have been directed at the national and local governments about the lack of preparedness (Lindsey & Mann, 2020) and the extent of the impacts on health and social welfare system (Olivia et al, 2020;Suryahadi et al, 2020). The initial response of the Indonesian government, indeed, was fraught with denialism (c/f Malinverni & Brigagão, 2020;Moses, 2020), with some outlandish claims were made by national government leaders, for example, that COVID-19 would not affect the country because its tropical climate, faith, and even ethnic superiority, offered sufficient protection (Djalante et al, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy capacity, local autonomy, and human agency: tensions in the intergovernmental coordination in Indonesia’s social welfare response amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Asmorowati

Schubert

Ningrum

2020

Journal of Asian Public Policy

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Policy capacity, local autonomy, and human agency: tensions in the intergovernmental coordination in Indonesia’s social welfare response amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Asmorowati

Schubert

Ningrum

2020

Journal of Asian Public Policy

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“…However, the success of social distancing policy depends on the awareness of the population and coordinated action by public authorities has proved to be a decisive factor for the engagement of the population. Unfortunately, the Brazilian President has called into doubt the effectiveness of social distancing to mitigate the virus’ consequences (DA SILVA, 2021; Richard and Medeiros, 2020 ; Malinverni and Brigagão, 2020 ; Paes-Sousa, 2020). Therefore, this paper aimed to measure the impact of the President’s weak social distancing policy in contributing to the increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of social isolation on the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 (Da Silva, 2021; Richard and Medeiros, 2020 ; Malinverni and Brigagão, 2020 ; Paes-Sousa, 2020), considering the harmful effect of the President’s denialist approach (Gollwitzer et al, 2020; Ajzenman et al, 2020 ; Adolph et al, 2020; Allcott et al, 2020; Barrios and Hochberg, 2020). The underlying argument is that the behavior of the President of the Brazilian Republic, encouraging social agglomeration, reduced the rates of social isolation and therefore promoted the proliferation of the virus in the country.…”

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confidence: 99%

The effect of politician denialist approach on COVID-19 cases and deaths

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Concern over the high rate of contagion of COVID-19 has prompted world authorities to use the strategy of isolation and social confinement as the main non-pharmacological weapon against the disease that has rapidly killed millions of people worldwide. However, there is evidence that the denialist rhetoric of the Brazilian President has negatively influenced people's behavior in relation to obedience to confinement and social isolation measures. The aim of this study is to analyze the correlation between the Brazilian President’s denialist rhetoric and the low adherence to social distancing measures and the subsequent increase of new coronavirus cases and deaths. Daily data on the level of contamination by COVID-19, social distancing and information from Brazilian states between the months of February and May 2020 were used. Taking into consideration the differences between the federal government of Brazil and state governors about the severity of the pandemic and the importance of social distancing, the article uses the Instrumented Difference-in-Differences approach, suggested by Duflo (2001), to obtain the causal impact of reduced social distancing, resulting from Presidential denialist rhetoric, in mitigating COVID-19 cases and deaths, taking into account the relationship between the president of the republic and the states as an instrument. The results suggest that the Brazilian average Social Isolation Index increased from 39.77% to 51% between February 1 st and May 18 th , 2020, the country would have had approximately 318,850.03 fewer cases of COVID-19, and more than 10.000 lives would have been saved.

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“…One significant difficulty is that a lot of Brazilians can pay to implement social distancing measures, but instead are getting their example from the president and refusing to follow any public health recommendations (Malinverni & Brigagão, 2020). Even as the disease has become more prevalent, many of Bolsonaro's supporters have organized rallies in protest of the country's governors and the Supreme Court-the latter of which opposed Bolsonaro and has used its power to strengthen state and municipal power in Brazil's federalism.…”

Section: Brazil Casementioning

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Political Communication vs Cultural Approach to Society Related to the Handling of Covid-19

Kaseem

Zhain

Deen

2021

JAMRSSS

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This study discusses political communication and cultural approach in handling the Covid-19 pandemic. Existing cases are taken into account along in the discussion of this paper to illustrate how measures like communication by political figure influence the Covid-19 mitigation. The cultural relevance of the COVID-19 community engagement message is critical to its effectiveness. Culture-insensitive communication may be seen in the COVID-19 case study as well as in the Ebola information being communicated. It is nevertheless important to recognize that a culture's collection of signals regarding life experience may range from positive behaviours that should be promoted to negative practices that should be addressed

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COVID-19: Scientific Arguments, Denialism, Eugenics, and the Construction of the Antisocial Distancing Discourse in Brazil

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Policy capacity, local autonomy, and human agency: tensions in the intergovernmental coordination in Indonesia’s social welfare response amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Policy capacity, local autonomy, and human agency: tensions in the intergovernmental coordination in Indonesia’s social welfare response amid the COVID-19 pandemic

The effect of politician denialist approach on COVID-19 cases and deaths

Political Communication vs Cultural Approach to Society Related to the Handling of Covid-19

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