A Brazilian TV host who played down the gang …

A famous Brazilian TV host, who criticized health restrictions and spoke out against the use of masks, has died after contracting coronavirus. Stanley Gusman, 49, who worked as a presenter on Alterosa TV, died on Sunday.

Less than a month ago had severely criticized the mayor of Belo Horizonte, Alexandre Kalil, for discouraging family reunions during the Christmas and New Years holidays. “I will visit my father and I will visit my mother. I’m not going to kill them. What you are saying strikes me as a lack of respect. Leave my family alone. I will defend my parents and my country, ”the driver said.

A few days after this comment, the driver started with symptoms. Although everything indicated that the man was going to recover, because the disease passed in the house, On January 4, he had a relapse and had to be admitted to intensive care at a hospital in Belo Horizonte. There he died a few days later. From the hospital, they reported that the driver’s death was caused by a secondary infection derived from the coronavirus.

The driver was a staunch supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro and, in the same vein as the ultra-conservative president, he minimized the risk of illness and the importance of taking steps to stop infections.

According to the newspaper El País, months ago he had declared in the Alterosa Alert program that he would not agree to have his temperature taken at the door of supermarkets and commercial establishments, saying that a study had determined that “Infrared thermometers would damage the brain”.

Shortly after, it was confirmed that the study Gusman was talking about was fakenews that circulated on WhatsApp, and was even denounced by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).