Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reiterated his carefreeness about the Covid-19 epidemic on Tuesday and speculated, “they must stop being a country of fags.”
“Everything now is pandemic, you have to put an end to that. I’m sorry about the dead, I’m sorry. We’re all going to die one day, everybody’s going to die here. It’s no use running away from it, running away from reality. They have to stop being a country of fags. We have to face open-chested, fight,” said the far right-winger at planalto Palace, home of the federal government.
‘Tem you deixar from being a country of fags’, diz Bolsonaro about #Covid19 https://t.co/mNwMl5QrQG pic.twitter.com/eLSCsD1xcb
— Jeff Nascimento (em ?) (@jnascim) November 10, 2020
The statements were given during an official discourse on tourism. “You went to the ground in that pandemic, which was oversized,” he told those present.
The covid-19 pandemic has left more than 160,000 dead and 5.6 million contaminated in Brazil, where analysts and researchers have insisted that there are a high number of un notified cases.
On Tuesday, Bolsonaro had already caught the eye by commemorating as a personal victory the interruption in Brazil of the study phase of the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac.
“Death, invalidity, anomaly… this is the vaccine that (the governor of Sao Paulo Joao) Doria wanted to force the Paulists to take. The president said the vaccine could never be mandatory. Another won by Jair Bolsonaro,” said the representative on Facebook
Bolsonaro attached a link on the suspension of the vaccine in response to an internet user asking if the government would buy and produce the vaccine in case the trials – currently in phase 3 – show that it is effective and safe.
The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) announced monday that it “decided to discontinue the CoronaVac vaccine clinical trial following a serious incident” on October 29, although the institute responsible for trials and the government of Sao Paulo, whose governor Joao Doria is Bolsonaro’s main political adversary, claim that death has no connection to the vaccine.
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