According to reports, Brazilians ridiculed President Jair Bolsonaro’s absurd statement that the COVID-19 vaccine can turn humans into crocodiles by vaccinating people while dressed as a crocodile.
Brazilians were angry at Bolsonaro’s bizarre comments last December and other anti-vaccination remarks he made. They wore crocodile and other reptile clothing lined up for vaccination. protector.
Some people who want to be reptiles say that Bolsonaro’s populist style and conservative remarks are often compared with the former president of the United States. Donald Trump, Is directly responsible for the death of a loved one.
“My clothing is a way of expressing my fears,” Laila Fernandez, a 60-year-old teacher in a crocodile costume, told the newspaper. “I have lost my mother-in-law, my niece’s husband and a few close friends. You will have a hard time finding a family without a loved one.”
“We must not forget what this presidential colleague did,” Fernandez added. “So many Brazilians were buried, they could have escaped death, but they died because of the president’s imposing.”
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According to data from Johns Hopkins University, since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 548,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil, which is the second highest number of deaths in the world after the United States.
The country has received approximately 124 million doses of vaccine, many of which require two doses to complete a full course of treatment. At the same time, Brazil has slightly less than 214 million residents.
Although Bolsonaro reportedly stated in December last year that “everyone who wants” the vaccine will get the vaccine for free, he insists that he will personally refuse the injection, and Pfizer In particular, the jab can cause a large number of strange side effects.
“It is very clear in Pfizer’s contract:’We are not responsible for any side effects.’ If you become a crocodile, it is your problem,” Bolsonaro said, according to AFP. “If you become a superman, if a woman starts to grow a beard, or if a man starts to speak in a soft voice, they will have nothing to do with it.”
Critics say Bolsonaro continues to issue problematic statements about vaccines, viruses and the use of masks to reduce their spread. On Wednesday, YouTube deleted 15 videos uploaded to the official account of the President of Brazil on the grounds that it violated the platform’s policy on COVID-19 misinformation.
Although some of Bolsonaro’s videos have been blocked, at least one video of Brazilians wearing fancy clothes to mock the president and vaccinate them remains online after they have quickly become popular.
As of Friday, 29-year-old Klinger Duarte Rodrigues (Klinger Duarte Rodrigues) dressed up as a python and vaccinated TikTok video has been watched more than 6.5 million times. Rodriguez was wearing this costume and holding a placard calling for the impeachment of Bolsonaro. His 37-year-old brother-in-law died of the virus.
“If the government can get the vaccine faster, many people will still be with us,” Rodriguez said protector“The best way to get rid of this pandemic is a vaccine.”
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