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Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday (18) that there will be no vaccine against covid-19 for all who seek it next year. He simply did not comment that one of the main responsible for this is himself.
The president criticized, in his weekly broadcast, the decision of the Supreme Federal Court that reaffirmed the mandatory nature of vaccination. To reinforce his argument that the decision was futile, he stated that not all Brazilians will be able to receive the vaccine.
“We have no way to get everyone a vaccine before the end of the year. So there is no restrictive measure. It may be an innocuous measure from the Supreme Court,” he said.
“There is no fiscal measure next year, zero. Because there is no vaccine for everyone,” he repeated.
“With due respect to the Federal Supreme Court, it took an early measure. It does not even have a vaccine. It will not have it for everyone,” he insisted.
Vaccinating a country of continental dimensions would already be difficult in a government whose priority is to save lives and jobs and, therefore, follows the recommendations of science, has its speeches guided by reason and shows that it can plan something. But Brazil under Bolsonaro daily reinvents concepts such as incompetence and irresponsibility.
Headed by a general who claims to be a logistics specialist, the Ministry of Health has a weak vaccination plan and, to this day, no vaccines are available.
The commitment to the immunizer developed by the University of Oxford together with the AstraZeneca laboratory made water when problems occurred in its testing phase.
The systematic attacks on the vaccine developed in China by the Sinovac laboratory, which closed a production agreement with the governor of São Paulo, João Doria, turned out to be a shot in the foot. After all, the Union now needs vaccines.
More so because Pfeizer, whose product is already being inoculated in the UK and the US, was approached late by the Brazilian government and informed that it cannot deliver the millions of doses in the time we need.
Every day that passes without people being vaccinated means more deaths. Bolsonaro understands this as much as his Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello. But they don’t care. So much so that the general, faced with the demands of the vaccination plan, said: “What is the anxiety for, this anguish?”
As well as showing a lack of empathy, Bolsonaro has a difficult time thinking in collective terms. It must be really difficult for a politician, whose priority during a pandemic that killed more than 184,000 people is to guarantee his re-election and avoid punishing his son accused of embezzlement of public resources, to think about the collective.
Ideally, we should reach the end of the year with at least 70% of people vaccinated, which would produce herd immunity and stop the circulation of the coronavirus. But, in the absence of vaccines, he has been promoting a real campaign against vaccination.
He suggests that the side effects are greater than the benefits, he proposed that each citizen sign a term of responsibility, he says that he will not be vaccinated because he already contracted it.
Earlier, during a ceremony, arguing that no one can force someone else to get the vaccine, the president made the following statement: “If the guy doesn’t want to be treated, so be it. If I don’t want chemotherapy and I’m going to die, the it’s my problem, man, “he said.
It is not that you do not know that cancer is not an infectious disease and that cancer is not “transmitted” by talking to your family as is the case with covid-19.
But you must create a narrative to avoid or outsource failure as the leader of a nation at war with a virus. What he has achieved, since half the population estimates that he is not to blame for the deaths of covid-19, according to Datafolha.
And if the strategy does not work, he already has an excuse prepared, tested and approved by millions of followers and fans: “I am sorry for all the dead, but it is the fate of all.”
