The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, one of the few global liders who fully embraced an anti-vaccine stance, now says he never opposed vaccination.
In the same that Bolsonaro said that he never called covid-19 a "little flu", a claim that was disproven by the videos of him saying just that, now he is saying that he never criticized the vaccines developed by chinese labs.
According to the FGV professor Oliver Stunkel, "populists with authoritarian tendencies, systematic lying is an important strategy -- not only to anesthetize the population, but also to push the boundaries of what is acceptable little by little".
That's exactly what Bolsonaro is doing now.
Taking vaccines is the best way to protect yourself from a variety of serious diseases and their complications (including death). Bolsonaro's anti-vaccine discourse can cost Brazilian public health a lot, because, it only takes one person to ignore immunization to trigger this whole chain of contamination. So it's important that everyone does their part.
The Brazilian president should now that. And Bolsonaro should know that. And he knows, however, he preferred, for months, to speak out against vaccination, to the point of saying that people could become alligators after they took the vaccine. Yes, he said that.
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