Pfrimer, Matheus Hoffmann  <br/><br/>
Brazil’s war on COVID-19:   Crisis, not conflict—Doctors, not generals/ 

 -  sage  2020 
 - vol 10, issue 2, 2020 : (137–140 p.,). 
<br/><br/> This commentary first documents the ways in which President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration has evoked securitized discursive strategies that frame Brazil’s national response to COVID-19 as a matter of defense instead of public health. We then ask: What does it mean to talk about the virus and the ways to address it through war-framings? We argue that the Bolsonaro administration has framed the COVID-19 pandemic as an extra-territorial threat in an effort to create internal stability while failing to handle the matter effectively. Such politically motivated spatial framings inhibit an effective response in Brazil and pose a severe threat to public health. Once COVID-19 becomes securitized, the response is framed by the military bureaucracy rather than public health authorities, resulting in dangerous consequences.