Bolsonaro boasts of being “the only head of state” not to abide by restrictions against covid-19 | International

Bolsonaro has also minimized the seriousness that the Brazilian Amazon is facing due to its environmental measures and has celebrated, already in the current situation in the United States, the recent decision of the Supreme Court to revoke the constitutional right to abortion.

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has used the cameras of the American chain Fox News to question the covid-19 vaccine in an interview.

The president also boasted of having been the “sole head of state” that has not complied with restrictive measures to curb the pandemic.

“A person who has already been infected is already immune and does not need to take the vaccine and that has been my case. Now, I bought vaccines for all Brazilians. I didn’t force anyone to take it, I respected individual freedom.” has defended.

Bolsonaro has questioned not only the efficacy of the vaccine –because despite the booster dose people continue to contract the disease and die–, but has insisted once again on one of the slogans that he repeated over and over again during the pandemic, the use of “early treatments” to prevent infections and deaths.

Thus, without giving further details, he has mentioned a series of “studies outside of Brazil” that would support their arguments.

“Many deaths could have been avoided if there were not so much pressure from the media against early treatment. (…) people take the third, the fourth dose of the vaccine and continue to contract the virus and die”, he stressed.

Sayings of Jair Bolsonaro for the pandemic and covid-19

Once again, Bolsonaro’s words about the pandemic lack any medical endorsement, colliding head-on with scientific studies.

An example of this is the prestigious magazine ‘Lancet’, which estimates that some 20 million lives have been saved thanks to the vaccine.

In turn, specialists have never stated that the vaccine prevents contracting the disease again, but it does reduce the risk that it may develop seriously.

Bolsonaro has said that the Supreme Court ruling “the left did not like it”, unlike him, who defends life “since conception”.

Some statements in tune with those that a few days ago questioned the fact that an eleven-year-old girl raped could finally terminate the pregnancy.

Regarding the Amazon, he has pointed out that there are external “interests” in magnifying a supposed problem in an attempt to question Brazilian sovereignty over that extensive and vast territory.

It is an argument that he shares with him, according to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who expressed his solidarity with him during the meeting they both held recently, with the war in Ukraine already in full swing.

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