“I am not going to allow the little flu to knock me down.”

— Jair Bolsonaro

Said about the Covid-19 pandemic, as quoted in "Bolsonaro Denies that He Called Covid-19 A "Little Flu" https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2020/11/bolsonaro-denies-that-he-called-covid-19-a-little-flu.shtml, Folha de S.Paulo (March 2020)
2020

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Brazilian president elect 1955

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