In Brazil, the Ministry of Labor decides that any worker who refuses to take the vaccine can be fired

The Brazilian Labor Prosecutor's Office determined that workers who refuse to receive the vaccine against Covid-19 without presenting documented medical reasons may be dismissed for cause.

Although the new norm indicates that the best path is the orientation of workers, that is, that companies invest in raising awareness and negotiating with their employees, the understanding is that the individual and unjustified refusal to vaccination may put the health of workers at risk. other employees. Thus, the employee who does not accept to take the vaccine can be dismissed.

The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil had already decided in 2020 that, although it cannot force anyone to get vaccinated, the State can impose restrictive measures on citizens who refuse to take the vaccine against Covid-19.

After spending months criticizing the coronavirus vaccines, Bolsonaro says he never criticized the vaccines, which is a blatant lie

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.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is angered of being called "Captain Chloroquine" on Twitter

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, showed yesterday his anger by being called Captain Chloroquine on the social media. After aggressively pushing chloroquine for covid onto the Brazilian population, now the Brazilian president complains about his earned nickname of "Capitão Cloroquina".

The above art, made by illustrator @crisvector has been seen by thousands of people. Thousands of messages calling Bolsonaro Captain Cloroquina also won the Brazilian digital platforms.

Among the absurdities committed by Bolsonaro in his government, one of the most serious is the very public defense of the use of chloroquine and its derivative, hydroxychloroquine, in the fight against coronavirus. 

Now, fearing to suffer lawsuits in court, Bolsonaro said he considered Chloroquine a placebo and that he, in ordering the purchase of the drug and recommending its use did not kill anyone. However, that is not what the experts say. If the Brazilian government, instead of spending public funds buying Chloroquine, had prepared better for the lack of oxygen in hospitals in the city of Manaus, dozens of lives could have been saved.

 

For example, for researcher and professor Sabine Boettger Righetti, if the Brazilian government, instead of spending "public money on medicine that does not work for Covid instead of investing in oxygen, in ICU, in vaccine insums, then, yes, they killed a lot of people."

But now, there's nowhere to hide since he pushed this awful and false idea of using a medication with side effects like anxiety, trouble breathing, tightness in the chest etc.

Brazilian GDP plummets 9.7%, the biggest drop recorded by IBGE in the last 25 years #PIB

 The IBGE announced today that the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) amounted to R$ 1.653 trillion from April to June 2020, shrinking 9.7% in relation to the first quarter of the same year. This is the lowest result since the beginning of the historical series, in 1996. The accumulated drop in the first half was 5.9%.

This drop in Brazilian GDP has made the country economically regress in more than a decade, returning to the level of 2009. An unprecedented tragedy. According to IBGE, household consumption, which represents 65% of GDP, had a record decrease of 12.5% in the period.

It is important to remember that at the beginning of the year, Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said that the country would grow by around 1% in 2020 and that only 5 billion would be needed to deal with the pandemic. Both predictions are gigantic errors, so far the government has spent more than half a trillion Reais on aid to the poorest Brazilians and even so the country has not managed to escape from a technical recession. As for the 1% growth, even before the pandemic, the country, according to the IBGE, was already finding itself downhill economically. After correcting the figures for the first quarter, the IBGE indicated that even before the pandemic, Brazil's economy had already fallen by 2.5%.

President @jairbolsonaro, why did your wife Michelle receive R$89 thousand from Fabrício Queiroz?

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, when asked today by a reporter for the newspaper O Globo, why the first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, received R $ 89,000 from Fabrício Queiroz, a former police officer who worked as an advisor to Jair Bolsonaro and his son Flávio Bolsonaro, the president said: "I'd like to give you a good battering".

The Brazilian president, when asked about his wife's alleged involvement in wide-ranging corruption scheme, again showed his complete lack of control in dealing with the press and democracy. Thus, Bolsonaro continues to owe Brazilian society the answer to the simple question: "Why did your wife receive 89 thousand reais from Fabrício Queiroz?

After this threat, Brazilian social networks were taken by the question asked by the journalist from O Globo. Thousands of people are asking the exact same question: President @jairbolsonaro, why did your wife Michelle receive R$89 thousand from Fabrício Queiroz?

A sales representative died while working at a Carrefour supermarket in the city of Recife, Brazil. The body was covered with umbrellas, surrounded by crates of beer and the supermarket continued to function for the public

 A man who works as a sales representative for a supplier at the Carrefour supermarket had a heart attack inside the supermarket while working in the unit of the Carrefour supermarket chain in Torre, a Recife district, in Pernambuco. The supermarket, which continued to operate with the body hidden by umbrellas and crates of beer, was the target of much criticism on social networks in Brazil.

According to the Hypeness website, the body of Moses stayed at the site between 8 am and 12 pm, until it was removed by the Legal Medical Institute (IML).

In an official note posted on Twitter, the supermarket chain Carrefour apologized for what happened.

IBGE: In 3 months, the number of unemployed in Brazil grows 3 million

According to data from Pnad Covid, released by the IBGE, between the first week of May and the last week of July, more than three million Brazilians were unemployed, that is, they sought employment and did not find it - thus, the unemployment rate went up from 10.5% to 13.7% in the period.

Therefore, it is possible to say that during the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), at least 3 million people lost their jobs in Brazil.

The numbers are scary, just in the last week of July of 2020, the unemployment rate in Brazil jumped from 13.1% to 13.7%, a growth of 0.6% in just seven days, according to data from the Covid Household Sample Survey (Pnad Covid-19 ), released by IBGE. The unemployed population in Brazil was estimated at 12.9 million people in the fourth week of July.

Meanwhile, the drastic fiscal austerity policy advocated by Economy Minister Paulo Guedes is losing ground within the government of Jair Bolsonaro, who has seen his popularity soar due to the 600 reais (little git more than US$100) emergency aid given to the poorest population. It is important to note that Bolsonaro was initially against the aid of 600 reais, which was only approved due to the efforts of federal deputies, mainly from the left parties. Paradoxically, the policy that Bolsonaro opposed ended up benefiting some of the voters, who linked aid to the federal government.

Burnings and the destructions of the environment in the Pantanal reach the worst rate in the last 20 years, according to Inpe

The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), when comparing its historical series, found that between January and July 2020, the Pantanal was destroyed by more than 4,200 fires. In total, more than 840 thousand hectares are consumed by fire, which is equivalent to about 1.1 million soccer fields.

The situation is so worrying that even figures like the actor Leonardo DiCaprio continue to speak out against burning in the Amazon and criticize the current Brazilian government. Today, the actor shared a text from The Guardian newspaper on his Instagram, which cites the management of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) in a critical tone.

Brazilian Central Bank projects a drop of more than 10% in the country's GDP in the second half of 2020

During a virtual event promoted by Abrainc (Brazilian Association of Real Estate Developers), the president of the Central Bank of Brazil, Roberto Campos Neto, said that the institution believes that there will be a fall of almost 11% of GDP in the second half of 2020. If the forecast is confirmed, the country will enter a technical recession, which is the drop in GDP for two consecutive semesters. Economists point out that the economic crisis in Brazil is more intense than in other countries and estimate that the recovery will be slow.

The June summary was: industry and commerce showed better results than expected, agribusiness was strong, but the services sector showed a slow recovery.

The fall in the level of Brazilian economic activity comes amid the pandemic of the new coronavirus, which has been killing about 1000 people in Brazil every day for several weeks. The pandemic has brought down the world economy and put the world on the road to a recession.

So far, Bolsonaro's government, in addition to the president's denialism, which in the face of thousands of deaths continues to defend things like the use of hydroxocloquine and openly criticizing the mayors and governors who defended social isolation, has done little to face this tragedy that will reverberate in the greatest recession in our history, as everything indicates that Brazil will face an economic fall twice the world average.

Brazilian services sector closed the second quarter of 2020 with a fall of 15.4%, according to IBGE

 The services sector, the most important in the Brazilian economy, ended the second quarter of 2020 with a decrease of 15.4%, according to the Brazilian Institute of Statistical Geography (IBGE).

The sector was hit hard by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, since some of its main activities had to close its doors due to social isolation measures, such as bars and restaurants, gyms and beauty salons.

In June, the services sector recovered. The sector grew 5% in June, influenced by the easing of social isolation, but even so, the accumulated result is still at a level 24% below the peak of the historical series, recorded in November 2014.

First lady Michelle Bolsonaro's grandmother dies of Covid-19; Brazilian Ministry of Economy suffers from stampede of team members; and São Paulo Governor João Doria announces that he is with Covid-19

First lady Michelle Bolsonaro's grandmother, Maria Aparecida Firmo Ferreira, who was 80, died of complications from Covid-19 in the Federal District, Brazil. Michelle who has also been diagnosed Covid-19 has yet to comment on her grandmother's death.

The minister of Economy of Brazi, Paulo Guedes, said yesterday (11/08) that there is a "stampede" of his team members. The reason is that government wings that defend more public investments, such as the Minister of Regional Development, Rogério Marinho, and President Jair Bolsonaro himself, who was never a neoliberal but a defender of the privileges of the military in Brazil, are abandoning the neoliberal agenda defended by Guedes and his followers.

For this reason, there is great speculation that Guedes may leave the government, despite of him saying that he will not leave.

João Doria, the governor of São Paulo, the state with the largest economy in Brazil, said today that he tested positive for Covid-19, that he has no symptoms and will work from home. At 62, he is the 11th Brazilian governor to test positive for the disease.