:strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_59edd422c0c84a879bd37670ae4f538a/internal_photos/bs/2020/Q/0/R4aDVCQWOt8AoDCa8F2g/49894251126-b9e549f879-k.jpg)
[ad_1]
President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday (14) that, for him, Brazil would adopt vertical isolation. He cited Sweden as an example, but did not mention that the Scandinavian country has more Covid-19 deaths than its neighbors, which have adopted the strictest isolation.
The president gave the statement during a meeting with businessmen from the industry.
“The federal government, if it depends on us, everything is open with vertical isolation and an end point. Each of the governors assumed their responsibility, there was competition among many to see what closed the most,” Bolsonaro said.
“Whoever defended the life of their voter the most, the citizen of their state in relation to others. The federal government was never an obstacle. If it were up to me, almost nothing would have been closed, like Sweden.”
Without isolation, Sweden registers a jump in the number of cases
Sweden, with 10 million inhabitants, passed the house of 3 thousand dead. A week ago, on May 7. Brazil, with a population 21 times higher, registered at that time three times the number of deaths on the same date.
In other words, in mathematical terms, the mortality rate of the total population in Sweden is approximately seven times higher than in Brazil. The comparison does not take into account underreporting in the countries.
The numbers continue to rise and, until this Thursday, Sweden has already registered 28,582 confirmed cases and 3,529 deaths. For every million inhabitants, the Nordic country has 2,830 cases and 349 deaths.
If the same account is done for Brazil, the numbers are much lower: 923 cases and 64 deaths per million inhabitants.
Despite loosening its policy of social detachment, Sweden guaranteed heavy investments in measures aimed at the peak of the pandemic. The government has announced, for example, that it will subsidize 90% of the wages of workers who are temporarily removed from their jobs.
In late April, the British BBC network reported that, even without a government-imposed quarantine, many Swedish citizens had opted for “voluntary social detachment”.
“The use of public transport has decreased significantly. Large numbers of people work from home. And the majority of the population refrained from traveling over the Easter weekend. The government also banned gatherings of more than 50 people and visits to nursing homes for the elderly, “the report states.
Bolsonaro talks about ‘war’
In the videoconference, Bolsonaro also said that the businessmen must “play hard” with the São Paulo governor, João Doria, to avoid a possible state closure. According to Bolsonaro, it is a “war”.
“And this measure now, that Fabio Wajngarten spoke here about São Paulo, the threat of a total blackout, is unimaginable. A man is deciding the future of São Paulo. He is deciding the future of the Brazilian economy. You, with due respect”. They have to call the governor and play hard, play hard, because the problem is serious. It is war, “said the president.
The government’s communication secretary, Fábio Wajngarten, delivered a speech to the same effect during the videoconference.
He stated that the federal government wants the “opposite” of what the São Paulo government says and asked businessmen to put pressure on the governors. According to Wajngarten, the Presidency of the Republic is with businessmen.
“Then put pressure on the governors, put pressure on the governments to whom you have the right. The Presidency of the Republic is with you. President Bolsonaro works for you. The government works for you, the Presidency, here in Brasilia. We have a lone voice here Paulo [Skaf], take this please, “Wajngarten said.
When businessmen asked him about the changes made by Congress in provisional measure 936, which eased employment contracts in the pandemic, Bolsonaro criticized the mayor, Rodrigo Maia.
“Look, if I can, one thing: it is not an explosion, it is a reality. Delivering the flexibilization contract to PC do B is not solving it. So there are people who are not from the government, it is inside another House, which does not want to settle the matter. It looks like he made a deal with the left. And we can’t make a deal with the left, we already know which line is on the left. focused on development, “he said.
Bolsonaro also included criticism of the MP 910’s processing, which will lose validity due to lack of agreement in the vote. The text is in plenary in the House, but the leaders have already reached an agreement to send a bill with a similar content, instead of advancing the MP sent by the government.
“It is absurd, absurd. Now, according to whom the commander of the House of the rapporteur, already indicates that he does not want to solve anything. It seems that he wants to sink the economy, screw the government, perhaps take political advantage out there. Bolsonaro says.
