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Although mass vaccination does not arrive, the only way to stop the massacre of Brazilians by Covid-19 is to adopt social isolation. But for the quarantines and lockdowns to work, the working poor need to know that if they stay home, their children will not sleep hungry.
Therefore, the National Congress must pay a dignified emergency aid and not that insult of R $ 150 to R $ 375, per household, proposed by Jair Bolsonaro and his economic team.
A grouper and a jaguar are enough to buy only 23% of a basic basket in São Paulo, 29% in Belém and 31% in Salvador, according to a monthly survey by Dieese (Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies).
For this reason, a letter signed by 16 governors and destined, this Wednesday (24), to the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate requests that the benefit be R $ 600, with the same rules as the previous one. year. That is, with the possibility of R $ 1200 per house.
They consider that the values proposed for the resumption of aid are insufficient to survive with dignity in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic and, therefore, do not help social isolation. The governors of Acre, Amazonas, Federal District, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, Goiás and Santa Catarina did not sign the document.
The solution to the pandemic is vaccination. But since Bolsonaro did not order enough doses last year, full immunization of the population, which could come in June, will only occur at the end of the year or in 2022. Until then, we need seasons of isolation and therefore help. .
Not to mention, the Bolsonaro government was quick to release weapons and ammunition and facilitate the purchase of pesticides, but was in no rush to return with the benefit. Which would have saved lives and averted an even bigger hit to the economy.
The National Congress can express indignation at will to try to dissociate itself from denialism and omission, as the mayor, Arthur Lira, did this Wednesday, when he said that the crisis could provoke a “bitter medicine.” Bitter against Bolsonaro.
But if they want to show that they are not made of the same material as the chief executive, they will have to prove who they really work for. And approve aid to help avoid that, in a few months, we are crying another 300,000 dead.
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