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- During this morning's stop to talk to supporters, President #Bolsonaro said, “LOOK, BRAZIL IS AT ITS LIMIT. PEOPLE SAY I SHOULD DO SOMETHING. I AM WAITING FOR THE PEOPLE TO GIVE ME A SIGN, BECAUSE HUNGER, MISERY, JOBLESSNESS; IT'S THERE FOR ANYONE TO SEE.”
- Business people, employees, and some of the population of the City of #Muriae, #MinasGerais, joined forces and drove away police officers and health inspectors that were checking if businesses were complying with the city's and state's lockdown measures.
- The export of some commodities to #China has shown continued increase since #Bolsonaro took office, and the number of businesses opened in 2020 is 6% higher compared to the same period of 2019.
- At least two of the biggest old mainstream news media reported the news that #China recognizes their vaccine has low efficacy as, “CHINA CONSIDERS MIXING VACCINES (or STUDIES WAYS) TO IMPROVE EFFICACY.” #COVID
- New photos and videos shared online are going viral for showing buses and trains in #SaoPaulo continuing to operate at lower capacity, resulting in large agglomerations and the impossibility of social distancing.
- A law bill proposing that remote meetings by congresspeople be permanent was presented. The argument is that it will help the government save a lot of money with facilities, services, food, supplies, and with commuting.
- A law bill proposing a “passport” that identifies who has #COVID and who took the vaccination shot has been presented. Just as what has been proposed in other countries, the passport can be used as a requirement to buy products and to use services.
- The ex-interim president of #Brazil, #MichelTemer, will work as a lobbyist for the Chinese company #Huawei during the 5G bidding.
- As of two days ago, the government delivered 47 million vaccine shots and 26 million of them were given.
- The Senate already have enough signatures to add mayors, governors, and #SupremeCourt judge-ministers into a nationwide investigation on the use of money to fight #COVID. Some governors want to restrict the investigation at the federal level; want it to investigate how federal money was used, but not state and city money.
- During #Bolsonaro's morning stop to talk to supporters he said the rest of the audio of the phone call recorded by Senator #Kajuru should be released. “I SAID MORE THINGS IN THAT CONVERSATION. EVERYTHING I SAID CAN BE RELEASED.” Kajuru said on #CNN that the president of #Pfizer went to the Palácio do Planalto (the president's office) to offer their vaccine, got there at 8am and waited until 6pm when he was told the president would receive him. Kajuru said that an ex-minister of the Ministry [Department] of Health witnessed this event. Bolsonaro tweeted it's a lie and asked Kajuru to name said minister. CNN asked Pfizer for comments and they were told this situation didn't happen. Kajuru's party announced it wants him out. Not because Kajuru seems to be lying about the president and the government, but because his plan doesn't seem to be working. One of the president's son, #FlavioBolsonaro, who's also a senator, sent a request to the Senate Ethics Council accusing Kajuru of unconstitutional behavior for recording and releasing a phone call with the president while both were in office without Bolsonaro's permission.
- The #SupremeCourt (#STF) judge-minister that was appointed by President #Bolsonaro last year, #KassioNunes, was chosen to be the one to decide whether the request for the impeachment of Judge-minister #AlexandredeMoraes will be taken to a vote in the Senate, but the president of the Senate, #RodrigoPacheco, doesn't seem willing to allow the vote to happen. He argued, “WE WON'T ALLOW THAT THE SENATE ACT AS AN AVENGER AGAINST THE #SUPREMECOURT [#STF].”
- An 88-year-old Brazilian actor called #StenioGarcia took the two shots of the Chinese vaccine #Sinovac (under the research name #Coronavac) and tested positive for #COVID, calling the attention again to the long-reported low efficacy of this one vaccine. The test result said he didn't even develop any antibody. The Brazilian organization behind the import of Sinovac, #Butanta (Butantã), is pushing for a third vaccination.
- #Niteroi's mayor imposed restrictions on what can be bought at supermarkets and grocery stores. According to him, only “essential” items can be sold from this Monday on. #RiodeJaneiro
- A senator called #JorgeKajuru leaked a six-minute phone conversation he recorded between him and President #Bolsonaro discussing the request to open an investigation on the government's actions in relation to the #pandemic. In the audio, Bolsonaro tells #Kajuru, the main author of the investigation request, that, as is, the investigation will leave mayors and governors and #SupremeCourt (#STF) judges out of it, rendering an unfair and incomplete investigation. Kajuru asks the president to be more considerate of him because he is on his side. Bolsonaro says he believes in his good intention, but reinforces that he signed an investigation that aimed at questioning the government only and that no good intention could make up for this fact. He asks Kajuru to show his good intention by adding mayors and governors and Supreme Court judges into the request, since all of them took decisions of their own regarding the #pandemic, to which Kajuru fails to give a positive and confident answer. The request clearly asks “TO INVESTIGATE THE ACTIONS AND OMISSIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOV'T.” In a part where it says “JUSTIFICATION [FOR THE RESQUEST],” it starts with, “THE FEDERAL GOV'T HAS, SYSTEMICALLY, VIOLATED BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION WHEN IT COMES TO LIFE AND HEALTH.” The reason he gave for the leak is that people was bothering him by saying he was having private conversations with the president, so he wanted to show he had nothing to hide. Problem is, #Globo, the biggest public television in #Brazil and also an openly antiBolsonaro organization, covered the leak in their Sunday night's show #Fantastico e Kajuru showed approval and reposted it on Twitter account. The fuel for animosity towards Bolsonaro had been low recently, and this leak was the fuel the opposition needed to raise hell again and boost their call for Bolsonaro's impeachment, alleging he was trying to interfere with the powers, trying to collude with a senator to go after the opposition. Further evidence Kajuru recorded and leaked the call with bad intention is a tweet where he says, “KASSIO, WE KNOW YOUR PRICE!!!” #KassioNunes is a conservative judge-minister appointed by Bolsonaro. Nunes signaled he would vote against the investigation if mayors and governors and judge-ministers weren't added to it. #COVID
- The #Bolsonaro administration got a much higher value in investment from the ports' and airports' concessions bidding than they expected, making the left go nuts after months insinuating the government was a disaster and the world was afraid of investing in #Brazil. This also shows that many foreign investors are not that naive to rely only on what the mainstream media reports.