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In his quest to turn back the clock of history and bring Brazil back to the beginning of the last century, Captain Jair Bolsonaro found a new enemy: the mandatory vaccine against Covid-19, defended by more than 70% of the population. , according to Datafolha.
With that, he decided to kill two birds with one stone: the governor of São Paulo, João Doria, a possible competitor in 2022, and the “communist vaccine” developed by China, in association with the Butantã Institute, in São Paulo.
With no other problems to worry about for the moment, it seems that he decided to reissue the “Vaccine Rise”, unleashed against Oswaldo Cruz, commissioned by President Rodrigue Alves to eradicate smallpox, bubonic plague and yellow fever, diseases that ravaged to Rio de Janeiro. January 1904.
By making vaccination against smallpox mandatory, the great Brazilian sanitarista provoked a popular uprising that, in four days of November of that year, turned the city upside down, leaving 30 dead, 110 injured, 945 prisoners and 461 deported. to Acre.
As often happens in Brazil in times of crisis, a group of military men, supported by civilians, annoyed with the urban reform promoted by Mayor Pereira Passos, tried to take advantage of the furdunço to carry out a coup d’état, which led the government to declare the Site status.
“My Minister of Health has already clearly said that this vaccine will not be mandatory, and that is the end,” Bolsonaro proclaimed on Monday, closing the matter.
In São Paulo, as the governor announced that vaccination will be mandatory in the state, according to article 268 of the Penal Code, we did not know who to obey, as happened in the social distancing of the quarantine decreed at the beginning of the pandemic.
“There must be scientific evidence. The country that is offering this vaccine must first massively vaccinate its own, then offer it to other countries,” the president justified.
Very curious. The same Bolsonaro who prescribed chloroquine to everyone as the best medicine to fight the coronavirus, even without scientific proof, now wants China to vaccinate 1.4 billion inhabitants, before authorizing its use in Brazil.
Willing to fight vaccination by all means, to defend “the lives of others”, in speeches at the Planalto Palace and messages on social networks, the president now recommends a dewormer to fight the virus and points to Governor Doria, not to mention his name:
“I don’t want to accuse anyone of anything, but that person is flying and bringing terror to the population. Nobody can, under any circumstances, force them to take this vaccine.”
More than a century ago, Oswaldo Cruz’s campaign required proof of vaccination and provided fines for those who refused to take them, sparking protests against public services and the police.
The difference is that, at that time, the federal government defended mandatory vaccination, which it is now against, and we no longer have any Oswaldo Cruz to defend it. .
This time, Bolsonaro is on the wrong side even of Donald Trump, who wants to approve a vaccine at the touch of a box, whatever, to stop the bleeding at the polls, which announce his defeat on November 3. Elections in the United States are only two weeks away. Here, there are still two years left.
Life that goes on.
