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“Good evening, Thursday, Brasilia, 7pm. Another live. Today will be quite short, I don’t have anyone on my side here. A very complicated week. A lot happened, but let’s go.”
In the midst of the worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil and the pressure from Congress to remove Minister Ernesto Araújo from the command of the Foreign Ministry, it was with these words that President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) opened his life on Thursday for the night (25). ).
This time, in the weekly broadcast, which usually lasts at least an hour and always has at least one guest to interact with the president, Bolsonaro was accompanied only by the Libra interpreter Elizângela Castelo Branco.
Neither man wore a mask, despite Bolsonaro coughing seven times during the 19 minutes and 18 seconds of transmission through social media. The president often says he has reflux to justify the cough.
The director also did not have questions from a radio program that sympathizes with the President and that also broadcasts the CEO’s presentation. Typically, presenters send audio inquiries to Bolsonaro’s partner, but the president ends up responding.
In the broadcast, Bolsonaro committed a faulty act and said that the government had worked against vaccination.
“We are concerned about lives and there they began to take measures against the vaccine. Many people deny it, they are deniers, so to speak,” he said.
A little later, an assistant alerted him to the error. “Did I mention anti-vaccine measures? So let’s correct it: it’s not anti-vaccine, [é] against Covid there “.
Despite the conciliation meeting on the confrontation of the Covid-19 pandemic with the other powers of the State and some governors on Wednesday (24), Bolsonaro insisted on criticizing the restrictive measures adopted to contain the spread of the virus and defended early treatment, although this time he did. Do not mention the name of any remedy.
“The economy, if it stops, the policy of radically closing everything, we don’t know where our Brazil will end up,” Bolsonaro said.
Despite the insistence on criticism, the tone adopted by Bolsonaro was much more diplomatic than on previous occasions.
As he had already done with supporters in the morning, the president again commented on the German government’s decision to cancel a rigid strike in the country during Easter.
The president, however, once again omitted the reason for the withdrawal of the German government: the summary notice did not leave time to cancel the plans of the population, so it was revised.
After criticizing Luiz Henrique Mandetta, the first of his four health ministers, Bolsonaro said that anyone who has symptoms of Covid should seek a basic health unit or hospital. It was there that he resumed his early treatment campaign, which has no scientific proof of effectiveness.
“Talk to the doctor to see what he is going to prescribe. There is no clear medicine for this yet. There is no medicine for that. But the doctor has alternatives and can save your life with these alternatives. Immediate assistance is welcome and necessary. If I get infected again, I already have my doctor, I already know what he is going to prescribe, what saved me back there, “said the president, who already had Covid-19 in July of last year.
Speaking of vaccines, Bolsonaro said that Brazil applies, on average, 500 thousand doses per day, but that “there is a lack of better dialogue between the end of the line, the states and municipalities with the Ministry of Health so that, more and more, correct, more quickly, the number of people who are vaccinated ”.
The president read news headlines showing the difficulties of some countries in obtaining immunizers.
“Problems, several countries have it. It is not exclusive to Brazil. It is not a delay, it is the quantity of vaccines. The whole world wants it,” he said.
Bolsonaro went through a turbulent week. In addition to the escalation in the number of Covid deaths, Congress pressured Bolsonaro to change his position on the pandemic and remove Ernesto Araújo.
The Chancellor’s situation was unsustainable after the formation of a broad coalition to loot him from the government, led by the highest legislatures and made up of the military, agro-industrial leaders, parliamentarians from the center and big businessmen.
