Brazil’s Most Prominent Anti-Vaxxer Dies Of Something

The Guardian reports:

Olavo de Carvalho, the coronavirus-denying mentor of Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil’s radical right, has died in the United States, with one of his children citing Covid-19 as the cause.

“The family … asks for prayers for the professor’s soul,” relatives said on Twitter after announcing the death of the 74-year-old polemicist – a towering figure in contemporary Brazilian politics who was adored and abhorred in equal measure by millions of followers and foes.

The statement did not say how Carvalho – a former astrologer who repeatedly trivialized Covid as the “moronavirus” – had died. However, his estranged daughter, Heloísa de Carvalho, said coronavirus was the cause.

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“He has blood on his hands,” his daughter told the magazine Veja, blaming her father’s “denialist ideas” and dissemination of fake news for the Brazilian government’s delay in purchasing Covid vaccines. “But I do not celebrate his death.” https://t.co/ujpZukUxxk

— Tom Phillips (@tomphillipsin) January 25, 2022

Coronavírus diz que Olavo de Carvalho não existe pic.twitter.com/a11MvDDKPt

— Sensacionalista (@sensacionalista) January 25, 2022

Olavo de Carvalho, self-appointed “professor of philosophy”, conspiracy theorist and guru of Jair Bolsonaro has died aged 74, apparently of Covid whose seriousness he denied. A man of equal measures of arrogance and ignorance https://t.co/rED6p1VuxV

— Michael Reid (@michaelreid52) January 25, 2022

Olavo de Carvalho, a controversial far-right crusader who became an inspiration for Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, his sons and supporters, has died. He was 74 https://t.co/GCD7tTEzV9

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) January 25, 2022