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It is not possible to be sure if one of the three covid-19 tests attributed to Jair Bolsonaro really belongs to him. The soap opera, therefore, is far from being an end, which confirms the contempt of the current management with transparency in dealing with society.
The government submitted three reports to the Federal Supreme Court with negative results for Jair Bolsonaro’s covid-19. In two of them, made by the Sabin laboratory, the president uses code names (Airton and Rafael), but they include the numbers of his documents and his date of birth. In the third, which was processed by Fiocruz, only the record “Patient 05” exists.
There is no document from an independent institution linking the result to him, only a letter from a government doctor stating this. It may even be true, but given this management’s disregard for the facts, the job is not a test.
The column found that the material arrives at Fiocruz in batches identified by codes and, therefore, are returned. But, at some point, there must have been some evidence linking the result of the analysis of that cotton swab with the secretion to Jair Messias. Hopefully the government clarifies this.
Why it is so important to be sure of the test results. As I said here, this would no longer be one of the lies the president tells him to rule. It is about deceiving the population about being a pollutant of a murderous pandemic transmitted by social contact. And this is a crime, since it puts people’s health at risk.
At the already legendary ministerial meeting on April 22, he reportedly said he would not reveal the “rubbish” from exams because that could lead to a recall process. This report, according to the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, is from people who followed the exhibition of the recording of the meeting, part of the investigation resulting from the charges of ex-minister Sergio Moro against the president. Why would he have said that?
Ignoring the medical recommendations to remain isolated for seven days after his international trip to the United States (bringing more than two dozen infected with the coronavirus in his luggage) and to avoid crowds, Bolsonaro fraternized with hundreds of fans in front of the Palace. Plateau on March 15. And not only that: it has systematically promoted crowds by campaigning against social isolation measures.
He fought a legal dispute not to show the test results. The process that ended up forcing him to present the reports was presented by the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo. Claiming to uphold his “intimacy, privacy, honor and image,” as well as security, the president wanted the population to only believe his word when he said he had not contracted coronavirus. Hard.
When interested, Bolsonaro bombards social media with posts about his health, such as in the elections, after the hateful stab he received in September 2018. However, if the information does not suit him, he appeals, opportunistically, intimacy on the right.
Unfortunately (for him), being President of the Republic differentiates the individual from other citizens, not only because of the powers that the office gives him, but mainly because of the duties that he is obliged to perform, including transparency about his actions and Your condition. The right of presidents to total privacy is reduced to the right to security and stability of the population.
Transparency is not a concession that government officials make to citizens, but an obligation. The health condition of a President of the Republic is not a matter of an intimate nature, but of public interest, since situations that permanently or momentarily disable them have an impact on people’s lives.
When David Uip, who coordinates the São Paulo State Coronavirus Contingency Center, recovered from Covid-19, Bolsonaro demanded that he show if he had used chloroquine in his treatment, a drug that the agent wants to see massively distributed, despite the fact that scientists called for caution. His digital hordes repeatedly attacked the doctor until he revealed that he did.
Why does the president himself refuse to give the total transparency that he demands of others? Bolsonaro believes that he can do and say what he wants, when he wants and how he wants. Any institution that says otherwise and imposes limits, as the Federal Supreme Court has been doing, is the target of the attacks.
The beauty of democracy is that we have a right to know and, it is a duty, to demonstrate that we are telling the truth. That has only been partially fulfilled so far.
