(It's been a while.) Meantime, in the badly-written, poor-taste soap-opera named Brazil...
Posted by
Marlowe
Oct 21 '20, 10:33
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We are in our third Health Minister since the pandemic started. The previous two were reasonable, science-believers, MD's. They defended social distancing and were not hydroxychloroquine peddlers. The third is a general with no previous experience in Health whatsoever, which many feared would just be a yes-man to Bozonaro I, the Idiot.
Fast-forward a few months: the governor of São Paulo, also an idiot, but one that at least has tried to contain the spread of the disease, signed a deal with the Chinese lab Sinovac, which has a research agreement with a respected academic institute here. If the vaccine works, the state intends to buy some quantity so it can be used here.
Yesterday, the Health Minister announced that, if the vaccine works and is safe, if it is approved by the sanitary and health (federal) authorities etc etc, the federal government would buy doses as well. Most would be in fact produced locally, by that institute mentioned previously.
But it's Chinese, so this morning, Idiot Bozonaro the First said he would cancel it, because, well, it's Chinese. He claims he would not buy something that is not working as intended. (They wouldn't, it's conditional.) Which is rich, since he already signed the same agreement with AstraZeneca / Oxford. Which is double rich, since he is a zero-hour proponent of hydroxychloroquine.
Personally, I think it is a great idea to piss off one of your largest commercial partners, just because Drumpf hates them too (not enough to not get in bed with them, but enough Pootin tells him to).
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