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He looked like another president.
In his speech this morning in which he announced what the government called a “vaccination plan against covid-19”, Jair Bolsonaro used beautiful words and magnanimous expressions, all absent from his traditional repertoire.
He defended “the union” to fight “something that has afflicted us for months” (the “fluzinha”), he tried a mea culpa saying that some may have “extrapolated or even exaggerated in their desire” to combat the pandemic and were included in the chain of those, “brothers”, who fight for the “calm that will come after the storm.”
By citing “the 27 governors with a single purpose”, Bolsonaro did not leave out even the enemy João Doria, the Toucan governor who he mentioned as “the one with the tight pants” in a speech delivered yesterday to Ceagesp merchants in São Paulo.
Bolsonaro had already indicated that he would double the inclusion in the National Immunization Plan of Coronavac, the bet of the government of São Paulo and an alternative immunization more at hand for Brazilians.
The president pointed out the tactical change when his Minister of Health and also the Executive Secretary of the Ministry began to call the “vaccine” – as Bolsonaristas refer to the Chinese patent immunizer on social media – the “Butantan vaccine.”
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The Secretary Elcio Franco, number 2 of Health, also recalled in a video recorded and broadcast on YouTube the day before yesterday that the institute linked to the São Paulo government provides more than 70% of the vaccines distributed to the population by the federal government.
Bolsonaro’s turn comes on the eve of the imminent approval of Coronavac by China’s health surveillance agency. The “China Anvisa” is one of the four global references for the evaluation of new drugs, which, according to Brazilian law, makes it capable of validating the use of a vaccine in the national territory even without the Anvisa examination here in Brazil.
If he stood firm in refusing to buy the “Doria vaccine,” Bolsonaro would risk his popularity unraveling as soon as images of people from São Paulo being vaccinated began to circulate across the country.
Bolsonaro did not give in to reason, he gave in to politics.
The president who spoke this morning looked like another, but remains the same.
