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While Palmeiras and Santos played the final of the Copa Libertadores de América, this Saturday (30), about 2,500 guests from both teams and the organizers of the event gathered in a sector of the Maracanã stadium. Among them, Bruno Covas, mayor of São Paulo, who is on sick leave for medical treatment.
On the same Saturday, Brazil registered, for the tenth consecutive day, a moving average of deaths from COVID-19 of over a thousand, totaling 223,971 murdered Brazilians.
And while the toucan saw his team, Santos lose by 1 to 0, the city he governs spent the weekend in the red phase of reopening economic activities by order of his counterpart and political godfather, João Doria. At this stage, only essential sectors are allowed to operate, which excludes the public from soccer matches.
According to Conmebol, all guests had to show negative tests for covid-19 carried out up to 96 hours before. However, infectologists say that this is not a guarantee of an “immunological passport for agglomeration”, since, in the first 72 hours, the test is less sensitive. There is a possibility of being negative even if you are sick and passing it on to others in the stands.
Covas was wearing a mask, but most fans were not. It didn’t make much sense for the stadium sound service to ask to keep their distance and use protection.
The mayor was harshly criticized on social networks for his bad example (after all, he is the administrator of a closed city), for the lack of solidarity with thousands of residents of the capital of São Paulo (who cannot do the same for the pandemic). ), due to an inconsistent act when the population is asked to sacrifice itself and because it has been sold as a rational counterpoint to the biological earthiness of the President of the Republic and the Minister of Health.
This is reminiscent of when João Doria himself tightened the rules of social isolation in São Paulo and left for Miami in December, claiming that he had worked hard in 2020 and sacrificed family life. As if the Brazilians, especially the front-line players, didn’t deserve a break either. Many have even sacrificed their own lives while protecting that of others.
Even if he ran back when the case broke down on social media (using his assistant’s positive covid test as justification) and apologized, it was too late. He had made one of the worst mistakes of politicians, passing the image of hypocrisy.
It should be remembered that, ignoring the recommendations of the experts, that it was necessary to tighten the quarantine rules throughout November due to the jump in the occupation of the ICU by patients with covid-19 in public and private hospitals, the governor waited to do this alone. on November 30, the day after the re-election of his ally, Bruno Covas. He installed a time bomb, which ended up exploding.
The problem here is not moralism or demagoguery. The population has the right to prefer a politician who feels empathy and understands that leadership is by example, not by command. And solidarity is not just sending messages of apologies for the pandemic, but showing that we are all on the boat together. And that when it sinks, we all sink.
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