“…The first 20 months of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil were marked by many deaths, lack of hospital beds, lack of basic supplies, and collapse of the healthcare system, severe economic crisis, an increase of political polarization in the country, and spread of fake news and conspiracy theories (Barberia & Gómez, 2020;Ferrante et al, 2021;Silva, 2021;Zhu et al, 2020). From the federal government, there has been encouragement of the use of medications without scientific proof of efficacy, discouragement of social distancing, mask use, and vaccination, and resistance to adhering to large-scale vaccination programs (Burni & Tamaki, 2021;Ferrante et al, 2021;Guerin, 2021;Monari et al, 2021). With a term that started in 2019, Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, a conservative, right-wing career politician that flirts with authoritarian attitudes, has committed himself to turning the pandemic into a political dispute with a select few opponents: science, health authorities, political rivals, governors and mayors, the press, and even China (Boschiero et al, 2021;Burni & Tamaki, 2021;Fonseca et al, 2021;Militão, 2021;Monari et al, 2021;Ricard & Medeiros, 2020), all these as part of an ideological agenda to increase the loyalty of voters and worsen the country's political situation (Barberia & Gómez, 2020;Ferrante et al, 2021;.…”