Bolsonaro once again mocks Covid victims: 'Do you know anyone who died who had a child? No one does.'
Ignoring the nearly 700 deaths caused by the disease, including children and young people, Jair Bolsonaro said that "kids don't suffer from the virus, damn it."
247 - Jair Bolsonaro (PL) once again cast doubt on the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic and accused mayors of falsifying documents regarding the number of deaths and illnesses. He also claimed that children and young people "do not suffer from the virus."
“The kids don’t suffer from the virus, damn it…so much so that you saw a kid die from the virus somewhere…does anyone know of any child of someone who died from the virus? There isn’t one,” Bolsonaro said in an interview on a podcast on Friday (14).
“What happened, in large part, was that the kid had a head injury, they took him to the hospital and put him in the Covid ICU bed because he was receiving R$ 2 a day while the normal ICU was R$ 1,” he said. In the interview, he also stressed that he advised people to “take care of those who have illnesses, those with comorbidities” and told the rest of the population to “get to work, man.”
Despite the denials and attacks on municipal leaders made by the current occupant of the Palácio do Planalto (Presidential Palace), data from the Ministry of Health indicates that 687.120 people have lost their lives in Brazil due to problems related to Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, including children and young people.
On the 6th of October, Bolsonaro even apologized. for “talking too much” and unintentionally offending some people, even during the pandemic.
"We never shied away from it, even with the strain. I've spoken too much many times, I admit, I've unintentionally offended some people, I apologize, but it's the heat of a life-against-death struggle, in the case of the pandemic," Bolsonaro emphasized in another part of his speech.
During the health crisis, the current occupant of the Palácio do Planalto (Presidential Palace) defended the use of medications without proven scientific efficacy against Covid-19 and opposed the use of vaccines to prevent the spread of the disease. He also mocked Covid victims by imitating a person suffering from shortness of breath, one of the symptoms of the illness.
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