Citizenship sited | is there a dilemma between social isolation and negacionist mobilization?

Abstract

The Brazilian population has been caught in the crossfire of drastic binary alternatives between social isolation and denialist mobilisation, generating growing anxiety as no solution to the pandemic is seen in the medium term. On the one hand, we see the "stay at home" campaign and social confinement, which seeks to prevent the accelerated spread of the coronavirus, inviting individuals  to  assume  individual  and  collective  responsibility  for  public  health  and  following scientific  and  health  recommendations.  On  the  other  hand,  we  see  the  "Brazil  cannot  stop" campaign, which preaches the resumption of "normality" in life and work, minimizing the risks of the pandemic and following the denialist guidelines of bolsonarism. It is necessary to identify the different social groups that advocate the resumption of socio-economic activities -or that simply disobey the policy of social isolation -and to understand what their motivations and reasons are. Only  from  this  we  can  not  only  understand  why  the  Bolsonaro  Government  maintains  loyal followers in significant parts of the population, who understand that it acts well in the midst of the pandemic. Only on this basis can we also critically propose the conditions and ways in which an  instrumentally  effective and  morally  and  politically  legitimate  policy  to  combat  the  new coronavirus pandemic is possible.