Brazilians must be proud to have elected a president dumber than Trump. Although Bolsonaro still has to prove that he is dumber than Mexico’s AMLO.
Sounds like he was leading his best life, as they say. 
As to the smell issue, it really is a problem for some dogs if the owner doesn’t catch on. That dog I posted about yesterday, Kössi, the COVID-19 sniffing Spanish Greyhound, was found as a puppy in a shoebox under a freeway overpass in Malaga, Spain. He had been with six owners in Spain, but always kept getting returned because he ran away and was nervous. The lady in Finland who ordered him had asked the Spanish dog rescue for a beige Labrador, but Kössi was what she got. He was a terrible dog, high strung and frightened. Then one day she noticed he kept licking the bottom of her other dog’s lip. It turned out that the dog he was licking had cancer of the lower jaw. She then thought maybe the dog could be trained as a cancer-sniffing dog, but she knew nothing about that. She went to the vet school at the university and they set up training. Suddenly, he was a different dog. He could smell and distinguish several kinds of cancer as well as other diseases. He had a job! More importantly, he had negotiating power. For example, the common deal was some sort of chicken treat for getting the sequence correct. He would get to smell the treat before starting, and then the reward afterward. However, he soon found that he could refuse the “pay” if it wasn’t interesting enough. He could withhold services until strips of ham or beef were offered. Then he would do a perfect job. He knows his value.
The university researcher’s father then died of COVID-19 and many members of her family also got sick. Being a scientist, she collected lots of COVID-19 urine samples and put them in the freezer. It took Kössi just an hour to learn the smell of COVID-19. Since then he rarely misses. In one test, they had 5 samples from her freezer and five from “healthy” volunteers. The expectation was that Kössi would find five positives and five negatives. In fact, he found seven positives. It turned out two of the volunteers had acquired the disease. One was completely asymptomatic and both had tested negative on the first PCR test.
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‘You can’t cancel the sunrise, druid Arthur Pendragon told the BBC.’
Seems certain.
““You can’t cancel the sunrise,” druid Arthur Pendragon told the BBC.”
Well, if the sun is covered by a Trump NDA, you sure can keep it from rising. And if Barr makes the claim in court of such coverage, well, that claim would not be reviewable, would it? So there.