President Lula's speech at CUT forced Bolsonaro to adopt a more civilized stance in the face of the covid-19 pandemic

After a speech made by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, today, at the Workers' Union Central (CUT), the political chessboard in Brazil completely changed. The Workers Party lider defended vaccines, social isolation, sympathized with the families of the more than 260 thousand victims. On the same day, goverment members — including the president Jair Bolsonaro, a world-renowned denialist —, appeared all masked, defending vaccines, and promising to tackle the pandemic.

Now, the strategy of denialism as a policy adopted by Bolsonaro during the pandemic, with the trivialization of deaths and the naturalization of the cleavage between the economy and combating the pandemic —  as if they were opposite things — changed drastically.

The former Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, criticized the government of President Bolsonaro for not wearing the mask, drinking and going to celebrations, fighting with scientists. For Lula,  Bolsonaro committed a number of impeachable acts.

Lula da Silva practically forced Bolsonaro to adopt a more civilized stance in the face of the covid-19 pandemic.

General Joaquim Silva and Luna should take over Petrobras (PETR4) under heavy depreciation in the stock price of the Brazilian state oil company

The investor that was still betting on some kind of reform in Brazil, after the decision of President Bolsonaro in relation to Petrobras, is now completely pessimistic. The dismiss of the president of the state-owned company by social media by the Brazilian president took the market by surprise. Roberto Castello Branco was doing a job praised by the market at the state-owned company, caused Brazilian assets to suffer a high and profound repricing.

According to the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, analysts believe that the accumulated losses in petrobras' market value can reach R$ 100 billion today, January 22, 2021, following the announcement of the government's change of command of the state.

In general, Bolsonaro's intervention is causing a huge loss of value in Brazilian state-owned companies today.

Jair Bolsonaro dismisses the president of Petrobras (PETR3; PETR4) with a post on Facebook

President Jair Bolsonaro announced today, February 19, 2021, in a Facebook post, the resignation of Petrobras President Roberto Castello Branco.

General Joaquim Silva and Luna will take over from Castello Branco, according to Bolsonaro's post.

According to the Website G1, the replacement will only be realized after the approval of the Board of Directors of Petrobras. The state reported that the board has ordinary meeting scheduled for next Tuesday (23) - the agenda of the meeting was not disclosed.

Cost of living in Brazil: population replaces meat by egg due to high food prices in the country

The increase in the price of food in Brazil is changing the diet of the country's population. Even the price of second-rate types of meat are going up a lot.

According to Alexandre Canatella, this change is one of the explanations for the increase in searches for recipes for ground beef, eggs and chicken on the @Cybercook site.

During 2020, the price of meat has changed and and remained very high by Brazilian standards. Now, meat became a luxury item.

According to Conab (Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento) estimates that animal protein consumption was 29.3 kilos per inhabitant in 2020, a 5% drop compared to 2019. It was the lowest level of consumption since the beginning of the historical series, which began in 1996.

New leak exposes more than 100 million brazilian cell phone accounts

PSafe, a leading cybersecurity company in Latin America, has warned of a new data leak, this time involving more than 100 million Brazilian mobile account information. The announcement comes 20 days after the leak, which exposed data from more than 223 million Brazilians, with full name, number of important personal documents, date of birth and other information. The case involves telephone operators: more than 102 million accounts were leaked on the deep web.

Marco DeMello, CEO and founder of PSafe, revealed that the company will send a detailed report with the investigation carried out to the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD), linked to the Brazilian Federal Government.

Thus, Brazil is again the scene of a gigantic data leak. These increasingly constant crimes damage the reputation of the country's telephone operators and increase the possibility of cybercrimes and scams against Brazilian citizens.

This time, numerous relevant information from thousands of Brazilians, including President Jair Bolsonaro and famous journalists such as Willian Bonner and Fatima Bernardes, were exposed.

 

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.