A study reveals that Bolsonaro led an "institutional strategy to spread the virus"

The most macabre timeline in the history of public health in Brazil emerges from the study of the regulations created by the Government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro in relation to the covid-19 pandemic.

Since March 2020, the Center for Research and Studies on Health Law of the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (USP) and Conectas Human Rights, one of the most respected justice organizations in Latin America, have compiled and broken down the federal and state regulations regarding the coronavirus and have produced a newsletter called

Rights in the pandemic: mapping and analysis of the legal regulations that respond to covid-19 in Brazil

.

This week, they launch a special edition in which they affirm: "our study has revealed the existence of an institutional strategy for the spread of the virus, promoted by the Brazilian Government led by the President of the Republic."

THE COUNTRY has had exclusive access to the analysis of ordinances, provisional measures, resolutions, normative instructions, laws, decisions and decrees of the Federal Government, which, together with the compilation of the president's public statements, draw the map that has converted Brazil is one of the countries most affected by covid-19 and, unlike other nations in the world, still does not have a vaccination campaign with a reliable schedule.

It is not possible to measure how many of the more than 212,000 Brazilian deaths could have been avoided if, led by Bolsonaro, the government had not carried out a project to spread the virus.

But it is reasonable to say that many people would have their mothers, fathers, brothers and children alive today if there were no institutional project of the Brazilian Government to spread covid-19.

There is intention, there is a plan and there is systematic action in government regulations and in Bolsonaro's statements, according to the study.

“The results dispel the persistent interpretation that part of the federal government is incompetent and negligent when it comes to managing the pandemic.

On the contrary, the systematization of the data, although incomplete due to the lack of space in the publication for so many events, reveals the commitment and effectiveness of the federal government's action to widely spread the virus in the national territory, declared with the objective to resume economic activity as soon as possible and at any price, ”says the publication's editorial.

"We hope that this timeline offers a global vision of a process that we live in a fragmented and often confused way."

The study is coordinated by Deisy Ventura, one of the most respected jurists in Brazil, who investigates the relationship between pandemics and international law and is coordinator of the doctorate in Global Health and Sustainability at USP;

Fernando Aith, professor of the Department and Policy, Management and Health of the Faculty of Public Health of USP and director of CEPEDISA / USP, a pioneering center in research on health law in Brazil;

Camila Lissa Asano, program coordinator for Conectas Human Rights;

and Rossana Rocha Reis, professor in the Department of Political Sciences and the Institute of International Relations of USP.

The timeline is made up of three axes presented in chronological order, from March 2020 to the first 16 days of January 2021: 1) normative acts of the federal government, which include the edition of norms by federal authorities and bodies and the presidential vetoes;

2) acts of obstruction to the responses of state and municipal governments to the pandemic;

and 3) propaganda against public health, defined as “the political discourse that mobilizes economic, ideological and moral arguments, in addition to false news and technical information not scientifically proven, with the purpose of discrediting the health authorities, weakening popular adherence to health recommendations based on scientific evidence and promote political activism against the public health measures necessary to contain the advance of covid-19 ”.

The authors point out that the publication does not present all the norms and statements collected and stored in the research database, but rather a selection that seeks to avoid repetition and present the most relevant for the analysis.

The data was collected from the database of the Rights in the pandemic project, from the jurisprudence of the Federal Supreme Court and the Union Court of Accounts, as well as other official documents and speeches.

In the axis that they define as propaganda, the Google search engine was also used to collect videos, publications on social networks and news.

The analysis shows that "most deaths would be preventable through a disease containment strategy, which constitutes an unprecedented violation of the right to life and the right to health of Brazilians."

And this has occurred “without the managers involved being held responsible, despite the fact that institutions such as the Federal Supreme Court and the Union Court of Accounts have pointed out, countless times, the disagreement with the Brazilian legal system of conscious conduct and omissions and volunteers from federal managers ”.

They also highlight "the urgency of discussing in depth that they represent crimes against public health, crimes of responsibility and crimes against humanity during the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil."

Bolsonaro's acts and speeches are known, but they end up being diluted on a day-to-day basis, fueled by the production of factoids and fake news, in which the hate war is also a strategy to cover up the consistency and persistence of the project, which is advancing while the temperature remains high on social media.

The publication causes shock and discomfort by systematizing the explicit production of evils that Bolsonaro and his Government have put into practice during almost a year of pandemic.

One of the main merits of the study is precisely to articulate the different official measures and the president's public speeches on the timeline.

From this meticulous analysis the plan arises, with all its phases duly documented.

It is also made explicit against which populations the attacks are concentrated.

In addition to the indigenous peoples, whom Bolsonaro denies even drinking water, there are a series of measures adopted to prevent workers from being able to protect themselves from COVID-19 and isolate themselves.

The Government extends the concept of essential activities even to beauty salons and seeks that several unions have their right to emergency aid of 600 reais ($ 110) determined by Congress canceled.

At the same time, it seeks to implement double standards for health professionals: Bolsonaro vetoes the entire project that provides financial compensation for those workers who are disabled as a result of their actions to contain the pandemic and tries to exempt officials from any responsibility for acts and omissions in the fight against covid-19.

In short: hard and risky work to prevent and fight a pandemic is discouraged and omission is encouraged.

By withholding resources earmarked for covid-19, the Government impairs care for the sick in state and municipal public health systems.

The war against governors and mayors trying to implement measures to prevent the spread of the virus is constant.

The list is long.

Through vetoes, Bolsonaro cancels even the most basic measures, such as the obligation to wear a mask in establishments that are authorized to operate.

Many of his measures and vetoes are later annulled by the Federal Supreme Court or the Legislative itself.

This is another important point: the analysis of the data also shows to what extent the situation in Brazil could be even more tragic if the Supreme Federal Court and other instances had not stopped several of the measures to spread the virus that the Government created.

Despite the fragility that institutions and society have shown, the effort on the part of the protagonists to try to annul or neutralize Bolsonaro's actions is visible.

It is possible to do the exercise of projecting how much all these efforts, combined and associated with a government willing to prevent the disease and fight against the virus, could have made to avoid deaths in a country that has a large public health system.

Instead, Bolsonaro produced a war in which most of the energy of institutions and organized society was dissipated to reduce the damage his actions produced, instead of focusing on the fight against the biggest health crisis in a century. .

Almost a year after the first case of covid-19 emerged in Brazil, it remains to be seen whether society and institutions that are not accomplices of Bolsonaro will be strong enough to, in the face of the map of institutional actions for the spread of the virus, stop finally to the agents of dissemination of the disease.

The use of the State machine to promote destruction has been decisive in producing the current reality, in which more than a thousand graves are dug a day to house people who could be alive.

In the drawer of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia, there are more than 60 petitions for

impeachment

.

In the International Criminal Court, at least three communications link genocide and other crimes against humanity with actions by Bolsonaro and members of the Government related to the pandemic.

The next few weeks will be decisive for Brazilians to say who they are and what they will answer to future generations when asked where they were when so many died of covid-19.

These are the main points on the timeline of the actions of Jair Bolsonaro and his Government:

March, epidemiological week 10: 1-7 / 03/2020

Accumulated cases: 19 |

Deaths: 0

"Little crisis"

An ordinance of the National Indigenous Foundation (Funai) tries to open a loophole for non-indigenous people to enter, "exceptionally" and with the aim of carrying out "essential activities", in the territories of isolated peoples.

The measure seeks to use the covid-19 to create a gateway to communities that have never had contact with non-indigenous people (or with their viruses and bacteria) or who have decided to live without contact.

What Bolsonaro said:

Obviously we have a crisis right now, a little crisis.

In my opinion, much more fantasy.

The issue of the coronavirus, which is not all that the mainstream media spread or propagate around the world.

Phrase of March 7, said during a trip to Miami, Florida, one of the states hardest hit by the pandemic in the US At least 23 people from the Brazilian president's entourage were infected during the trip.

What's wrong is hysteria, like it's the end of the world.

A nation like Brazil will only be free when a certain number of people become infected and create antibodies.

Phrase of March 17, said during an interview on a radio station in Rio de Janeiro.

Soon, people will know that these governors and much of the media have misled them with this coronavirus issue.

Quote from March 22, during another radio interview with a station in São Paulo.

In my particular case, due to my career as an athlete, if I caught the virus I wouldn't have to worry, I wouldn't feel anything or, at most, it would be like having a cold or the flu.

Phrase of March 24, said during an official message broadcast live on television.

The Brazilian has to be studied, he doesn't catch anything.

The guy jumps into a sewer, goes out, dives and nothing happens to him.

March 25th

Phrase of March 25, delivered during an improvised rally in front of the Alvorada Palace, the presidential residence in Brasilia.

The virus is there.

We're going to have to face it, but we're going to face it like men, fuck.

Not like children.

Let's face the virus with reality.

Life is so.

We will all die one day.

Phrase of March 29, said during a walk through the Brazilian capital.

April, epidemiological week 15: 5-10 / 04/2020

Accumulated cases: 20,818 |

Deaths: 699

Change of minister

Bolsonaro dismisses the Minister of Health during the pandemic.

Luiz Henrique Mandetta, in addition to being a politician, is a doctor.

The main reason for the dismissal are the discrepancies on the use of chloroquine and on the actions of the Ministry, guided by the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO).

At the end of March, according to Mandetta, the president began seeking advice to counter the data and the strategy of the Ministry of Health: “The Planalto Palace is now frequented by Bolsonaristas doctors.

(...) He [Bolsonaro] wanted people around him to say what he wanted to hear.

(...) It never crossed his mind to propose chloroquine as a path to health.

His concern was always: 'We are going to give this medicine because, with this box of chloroquine in hand, the workers will go back to work, they will produce again.'

(...) His project to fight the pandemic is to say that the Government has the remedy and that whoever takes it will be fine.

Only those who were going to die anyway will die. "

Congress passes an emergency aid of 600 reais ($ 110), a parliamentary measure that most beneficiaries mistakenly associate with Bolsonaro, translating into an increase in the popularity of the president.

What Bolsonaro said:

Are you afraid of catching the virus?

Just kidding.

And the virus is something that will have 60%, or 70% [of the population].

(...) I don't know of any hospital that is crowded.

Phrase of April 2, said to his followers gathered in front of the Planalto Palace, the headquarters of the Executive Power in Brasilia.

I have been talking about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19 for 40 days.

Chloroquine is increasingly being presented as effective

A

tweet

from April 8.

No one is going to take away my right to come and go.

Phrase from April 10, during a walk that turned into a crowd in Brasilia.

Bolsonaro took to the streets to challenge the decision of some state governors who had imposed isolation measures and restriction of movement.

It seems that this virus issue is starting to disappear.

Phrase of April 12, said during a video conference with religious leaders to celebrate Easter.

I am not a gravedigger.

Phrase of April 20, delivered during a press conference at the Palacio de la Alvorada.

Bolsonaro answered with these words a question about the deaths caused by covid-19.

And that?

I'm sorry, what do you want me to do?

My name is Messias, but I don't do miracles.

Phrase of April 28, said during an interview.

Bolsonaro refers to his middle name when answering a question about the death toll.

May, epidemiological week 19: 2-9 / 05/2020

Accumulated cases: 155,939 |

Deaths: 3,877

War with the States

Bolsonaro uses decrees to boycott the determinations that the states and mayors have taken to prevent the spread of covid-19.

To do this, it broadens the understanding of what is an essential activity during a pandemic and that, therefore, it can continue to function despite the severity of the health emergency.

Thus, the construction sector, beauty salons and barber shops, gyms and industrial services in general become "essential activities".

The president also tries to exempt public agents from being civilly and administratively responsible for acts and omissions in the fight against the pandemic.

Bolsonaro also vetoes emergency aid of 600 reais a month instituted by Congress for artisanal fishermen, taxi drivers, app drivers, school bus drivers, app deliverers, self-employed physical education professionals, street vendors, fairies, waiters, babysitters, Manicurists, hairdressers, and hired teachers who are not getting paid.

Under the law passed by parliament, these unions would receive emergency aid, so that they could isolate themselves and protect themselves from the virus.

The Minister of Health, the doctor Nelson Teich, resigns: "I am not going to tarnish my record with chloroquine."

Who assumes the position, on an interim basis, is the active general Eduardo Pazuello.

In an official act, the military man stated that before taking office "he did not even know what the SUS was," the Brazilian public health system.

The militarization of the ministry increases even more.

A protocol of the Ministry of Health determines that chloroquine is used in all cases of covid-19, a drug that has been shown to be ineffective against the coronavirus.

Bolsonaro starts a war against the governors.

The National Health Council denounces that more than 8,000 million reais (almost 1,500 million dollars) allocated to the fight against the pandemic have stopped reaching the states and municipalities, which suffer from the lack of basic material, respirators and beds.

The Council launches the “Distribute Ya!” Campaign.

What Bolsonaro said:

I would like everyone to go back to work, but it is not me who decides, but the governors and mayors.

Phrase of May 1, said during a message broadcast live for Labor Day.

It is a neurosis.

70% [of the population] will contract the virus.

Nothing can be done.

It's crazy.

Quote of May 9, said during a

jet-sky

ride on

Lake Paranoá, in Brasilia.

If so, it is war.

If they want to go to São Paulo, they have to fight the governor.

Phrase of May 14, said during a videoconference promoted by the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo.

Bolsonaro incited businessmen to fight against the confinement decreed by Governor João Doria.

Those on the right take chloroquine, those on the left take Tubaína [a popular soft drink associated with the poorest].

Phrase of May 19, rescued in an interview with a blog.

I'm sorry for the deaths, but the reality is that.

everyone will die.

There will be no one left.

(...) And if you die in the middle of the field, the vultures will eat you up.

(...) Why bring terror to the people?

Everyone will die.

Those who are old and weak, if they contract the virus, they will have difficulties.

Those who have diseases, comorbidities, will also have difficulties.

These people have to be isolated by their families, the State has no way of taking care of all of them.

Phrase of May 22, delivered during a speech in front of the Planalto Palace.

It can not go on like this.

We know that we have to worry about the virus, especially the elderly, they have diseases, those who are weak, but [without] shutting down the economy.

70 days with the economy closed.

How long is this going to last?

Phrase of May 26, said during an interview.

June, epidemiological week 24: 7-13 / 06/2020

Accumulated cases: 850,514 |

Deaths: 42,720

Data blackout

Bolsonaro incites his followers to invade hospitals and film, with the justification that the figures for patients and bed occupancy are inflated.

On June 3, the Government publishes the COVID-19 data with a delay, after 10 at night.

On June 5, the website of the Ministry of Health is out of service and returns to work the next day with information only from the last 24 hours.

The press denounces the attempt to cover up the numbers of people infected and killed by covid-19.

The company loses confidence in official data and six of the main newspapers and digital media outlets -

G1

,

O Globo

,

Extra

,

O Estado de S. Paulo

,

Folha de S. Paulo

and

UOL -

form a consortium to record the figures of the pandemic.

What Bolsonaro said:

Find a way to get in and film.

There are many people who already do it, but more people have to do it to show if the beds are occupied or not, if the expenses are compatible or not.

Phrase of June 10, pronounced during a live broadcast on Facebook.

July, epidemiological week 28: 5-11 / 07/2020

Accumulated cases: 1,839,850 |

Deaths: 71,469

Vets of evil

Bolsonaro vetoes the obligation to wear masks in commercial and industrial establishments, religious temples, schools and other closed places where people gather.

It also vetoes the fine for establishments that do not put 70% hydroalcoholic gel near the entrance, elevators and escalators.

Bolsonaro vetoes the obligation for establishments operating during the pandemic to provide free individual protection masks to their employees and collaborators.

It also vetoes the obligation to post information posters on the correct use of the mask and personal protective equipment in prisons and socio-educational establishments.

Bolsonaro vetoes protection measures for indigenous communities during the covid-19 pandemic.

Among them: access to drinking water, hygiene and cleaning material, hospital and ICU beds, ventilators and blood oxygenation machines, information material on covid-19 and internet connection in the villages.

It also vetoes the federal government's obligation to distribute food to indigenous peoples during the pandemic in the form of basic baskets, seeds, and tools.

The Army pays 167% more for the main component of chloroquine, with the following justification: "to produce hope for anguished hearts."

The Supreme Court magistrate Gilmar Mendes, criticizing the militarization of the Ministry of Health, defines the response of the federal government to the pandemic as a “genocide”: “We can no longer tolerate what happens in the Ministry of Health.

(...) It must be made very clear: the Army is associating itself with this genocide, it is not reasonable.

This must be stopped. "

What Bolsonaro said:

I'm sorry for the deaths.

People die every day, from various causes.

That's life.

Phrase of July 30, said in the middle of an agglomeration in Bagé, city of the State of Rio Grande do Sul.

Bolsonaro, who a few days before had announced that he no longer had the coronavirus, questioned the congregation: “What are you afraid of?

Face it ”.

August, epidemiological week 32: 2-8 / 08/2020

Accumulated cases: 3,012,412 |

Deaths: 100,477

Vaccine attack

Bolsonaro vetoes in its entirety the bill that determines the financial compensation that the federal government will pay to health professionals who are incapacitated for having fought against covid-19.

The Bolsonaro government ignores Pfizer's proposal, which guarantees the delivery of the first batch of vaccines on December 20, 2020.

The Ministry of Health rejects the donation of at least 20,000 PCR test kits to detect covid-19 from LG International, two months after the offer.

What Bolsonaro said:

I am living proof that [chloroquine] works.

Many doctors advocate this treatment.

We know that more than 100,000 people have died in Brazil.

If they had been treated earlier with this drug, those lives [sic] could have been saved.

Phrase of August 13, pronounced during the inauguration of a work in the State of Pará, in the northeast of the country.

In my opinion, keeping the proper proportions, I have not seen that anyone in the world has dealt with this matter better than our Government.

Phrase of August 19, said during the signing of the provisional measures of access to credit for small entrepreneurs.

If [chloroquine] had not been politicized, many of the 115,000 lives the country has lost so far could have been saved.

(...) Some change doctors, I changed minister.

[Nelson] Teich came in and stayed 30 days, then, in order not to have another change, I left an intern, Eduardo Pazuello.

(...) Pazuello decided to change the orientation and stated that 'in any situation, chloroquine is prescribed', so that the doctor would have his freedom.

Phrase of August 24, pronounced during an official event that the Government called "Brazil defeating covid-19."

When an asshole like you catches the virus, the chances of survival are much lower than mine.

Phrase of August 24, said to journalists during the same event as the previous statement.

No one can force anyone to get vaccinated.

Phrase of August 31, said during a conversation with his followers in the garden of the presidential residence.

September, epidemiological week 37: 6-12 / 09/2020.

Accumulated cases: 4,315,687 |

Deaths: 131,210

A soldier in Health

A resolution of the Collegiate Board of Directors of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) makes the prescription of ivermectin and nitazoxanide even more flexible, dispensing with having a prescription to buy them at the pharmacy.

The Government advertises these drugs, advertising them as effective for COVID-19, but scientific studies show that they do not reduce the severity of the disease or prevent the death of patients.

Active General Eduardo Pazuello is officially appointed Minister of Health.

What Bolsonaro said:

We are practically defeating the pandemic.

The Government has done everything possible to minimize its negative effects, helping mayors and governors with health needs (...) [Brazil] is one of the countries that has suffered the least from the pandemic.

Phrase of September 11, said during an agglomeration in Bahia.

October, epidemiological week 41: 4-10 / 10/2020

Accumulated cases: 5,082,637 |

Deaths: 150,198

Chinese vaccine

Bolsonaro affirms that the pandemic has been oversized, he lies when saying that chloroquine guarantees a 100% cure if used at the beginning of symptoms and cancels the purchase of 46 million doses of the Chinese Coronavac vaccine by the Ministry of Health: "The Brazilian people will not be anyone's guinea pig."

What Bolsonaro said:

We entered [into] 2020, and we had the problem of the pandemic that, in my opinion, has been oversized.

Phrase of October 14, delivered during an official ceremony.

In Brazil, taking chloroquine at the beginning of symptoms, 100% cured.

Phrase of October 24, said to some French visitors at the Palacio de la Alvorada.

Everyone says that the vaccine that took the least time came out in four years.

I don't know why rush for this ...

Phrase of October 26, said during a conversation with his followers at the door of the presidential residence.

The pandemic is over.

I think [João Doria, governor of São Paulo] wants to forcibly vaccinate the staff because [the pandemic] is going to end and then he is going to say: "It's over thanks to my vaccine."

What is ending is his government, that's for sure (...) What do I see on the issue of the pandemic?

It is leaving, that has already happened, we see it in the history books.

A written statement released on October 30 by a page related to the president.

November, epidemiological week 45: 1-7 / 11/2020

Accumulated cases: 5,653,561 |

Deaths: 162,269

Production of lies

Despite all the facts and figures refuting him, Bolsonaro affirms that Brazil is one of the countries that has suffered the least from the pandemic.

Keep attacking the vaccine.

What Bolsonaro said:

Is this story from the second wave true or not?

Or is it to definitely destroy the economy? "

(...) "I take the opportunity, the municipal elections ... People do not give much importance to councilors and mayors, but it is important to be concerned and vote well.

The mayor who closed everything, if you think he did it right, vote for him.

If not, change.

(...) The tourism sector was windy, right?

Who ordered that everything be closed, that people stay at home?

It wasn't me, was it?

To be clear, the job destruction in Brazil, who has done it?

A phrase from November 9, said in a statement posted on the president's YouTube channel.

Everything is now a pandemic.

We have to end this, ho.

I'm sorry for the dead, I'm sorry.

We will all die one day.

There is no use running away from that, fleeing from reality.

We have to stop being a country of queers, ho.

Phrase of November 10, said during an official ceremony.

Death, disability, anomaly.

This is the vaccine that Doria wanted to force everyone in São Paulo to take.

The president said the vaccine could never be mandatory.

One more that Jair Bolsonaro wins

November 10

A statement released on Facebook the same November 10.

With these words, Bolsonaro celebrated the suspension of the coronavac vaccine tests in São Paulo.

The question of the mask, one day there will be a serious study that talks about the effectiveness of the mask ... It will be the last taboo to fall.

On November 26, Bolsonaro said this phrase during a live broadcast.

December, epidemiological week 50: 6-12 / 12/2020

Accumulated cases: 6,880,127 |

Deaths: 181,123

What's the plan?

Bolsonaro announces that he will not be vaccinated and acts to create panic in the population, alluding to terrible side effects.

In response to the Supreme Court's questioning, the Ministry of Health presents the National Plan to Operationalize Vaccination.

However, the government does not yet have a vaccine to offer or a reliable vaccination schedule.

Eleven former Ministers of Health from different parties published an article in which they denounced the "disastrous and ineffective conduct of the Ministry in relation to the Brazilian strategy of vaccination of the population against covid-19."

There is still no emergency plan for the indigenous people.

Judge Luís Roberto Barroso, of the Supreme Court, affirms: “It is impressive that, after almost 10 months of a pandemic, the federal government has not achieved the minimum: to present a plan with its essential elements, a situation that continues to put life at risk and the health of indigenous peoples ”.

What Bolsonaro said:

We are living the end of the pandemic.

A statement from December 10, during the inauguration of a work in Porto Alegre.

I'm not going to get vaccinated and period.

Is my life at risk?

It's my problem.

December 15

Quote from December 15, during a "technical visit" organized by the São Paulo General Warehouse and Depot Company, which brought together hundreds of Bolsonaro followers without security measures.

There, in the middle of the leaflet, it is written that the company is not responsible for any side effects.

That causes an alarm to go off.

We started asking people: "Are you going to get vaccinated?"

Phrase said on December 16 in an interview.

In the Pfizer contract, it is very clear ... We [Pfizer] are not responsible for any side effects.

If you transform into an alligator, it is your problem (...).

If you transform into Superman, if a woman grows a beard or if a man starts talking in a fine voice, they [Pfizer] have nothing to do with it.

A statement from December 18.

The pandemic is really coming to an end.

Now we have a small rise, what is called a small reputation, which can occur, but the rush of the vaccine is not justified.

(...) They are going to inoculate you with something.

Your immune system can react, even unexpectedly

Phrase from December 19, during an interview with one of his children transmitted by YouTube.

January 2021, until the 16th

Accumulated cases: 8,455,059 |

Deaths: 209,296

Dead by suffocation

The Foreign Office claims to have purchased 2 million doses of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine from India.

In the following days, the federal government organizes a large propaganda operation, which includes mass dissemination in the media and the placing of a huge sticker on an Airbus belonging to the Azul airline, which would carry out a "historic trip" with the slogan: “Vaccination.

Immunized Brazil.

We are a nation ”.

Bolsonaro even sends a letter to the Prime Minister of India in which he requests the urgent shipment of the doses, but India suspends the operation.

Faced with the health collapse in Manaus, where patients die asphyxiated by lack of oxygen in hospitals, the Minister of Health, the active General Eduardo Pazuello, declared: “What are you going to do?

Nothing.

You and everyone will wait for the oxygen to arrive and be distributed ”.

Bolsonaro vetoes part of Complementary Law No. 177 of January 12, 2020, approved by a large majority in the Senate (71 votes to 1) and in the Chamber of Deputies (385 votes to 18).

According to the São Paulo State Research Amparo Foundation Agency (FAPESP), the presidential vetoes will subtract 1.7 billion dollars from investments in science, technology and innovation this year, preventing Brazil from developing a vaccine against covid -19, despite having sufficient infrastructure and human resources.

The academic and business communities are mobilizing to break down the vetoes.

What Bolsonaro said:

Brazil is bankrupt, boss.

I can't do anything.

I wanted to modify the income tax table and this virus arrived, powered by the media that we have, these rogue media.

A statement on January 5, during a speech at the door of the Planalto Palace.

President Bolsonaro falsely maintains that the Supreme Court has prohibited the Federal Government from intervening in the management of the pandemic and that this responsibility would remain in the hands of the States and municipalities.

However, the court made an unusual public statement to deny the president and stated that the decision did not relieve him of his responsibilities.

Bolsonaro has also reiterated that social isolation measures cannot prevail over the functioning of the economy to avoid worsening the general panorama of the country.

The Government emphasizes that during the pandemic it promoted one of the largest financial assistance programs in the world for the most vulnerable, which ended in December.

The Ministry of Health, for its part, says that it has supported states and municipalities with the transfer of resources and supplies and maintains the discourse that early treatment of covid-19, with drugs without proven efficacy, is capable of avoiding the disease worsens.

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Translation from Portuguese by

Meritxell Almarza