 To store his outside Africa, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to use the armed forces against local governments that announce new lockdowns as the South American country battles a new brutal COVID-19 wave. Speaking to military personnel serving in the northern Amazonas state, Bolsonaro did not directly talk about the measures and actions of state governments. Still, he demanded a return to normality, ignoring the COVID-19 pandemic, and the more than 450,000 deaths in the country. Bolsonaro also repeated that freedom in the country is in the hands of the military.