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On the eve of completing a month in the position of Minister of Health, Nelson Teich performs the same ballet of the no-go-out that marked the epilogue of the predecessor Henrique Mandetta in government. Teich and Mandetta have something else in common: they are both doctors. They faced the pandemic playing the science violin for a boss who prefers to kick the bass in crowds.
Privately, Teich says he regrets becoming a minister. In fact, he was never a minister. Since taking office, the doctor has been on stage, somewhat uncomfortable, like another staging that Bolsonaro chose to camouflage his aversion to the Enlightenment. Teich’s vocation as a former minister has been revealed since his inauguration.
At the transfer of office ceremony, he stated that he had a “complete alignment” with Bolsonaro. He denied himself in the same speech when he clarified that the scientific management of the coronavirus crisis, adopted worldwide, would not suffer a “wooden horse” in its hypothetical management.
Teich became a puppet when he gave up the inalienable task of composing his own team. He accepted Eduardo Pazuello as number two, a general chosen by Bolsonaro to monitor him. Ironically, the doctor is pushed towards the exit door when he is ready to bring an action plan to the table.
Bolsonaro’s apologists are already defending the replacement of Teich by the deputy Osmar Terra, the doctor who is closest to the presidential thesis that the Brazilian needs to face the virus “as a man, not as a child.” Despite the unity of thought, the choice of Earth would be a mistake. There is a better option on the Esplanade: Abram Weintraub, current Minister of Education.
Bolsonaro does not need a health doctor, he prefers a classroom. The Weintraub transfer would unify the government around the error, exempting Brazil from continuing to pay attention to the Health portfolio. Hopefully, the country would get a less precarious Minister of Education. Even if he tries hard, Bolsonaro will have a hard time making the MEC worse.
