Interviewed CNN This Friday (11) the governors of Maranana, Flavio Dino (PCdoB) and Espiritu Santo, Renato Casagrande (PSB) said they saw political reasons not explained by President Jair Bolsonaro (no party) when he spoke. so the use of masks in the country has become more flexible.

However, two governors from the opposition parties to the president gave different interpretations of the speech. For Flavio Dino, Bolsonaro’s proposal was “retaliation” for Health Minister Marcelo Keiroge, who on Tuesday (8) approached the CPI on the pandemic and defended the use of masks, in addition to stating that he had done so. I do not believe in the use of a wide range of so-called “early treatment” drugs.

Renato Casagrande, however, does not see pressure on Keirogu in Bolsonaro’s behavior. For Governor Espirito Santo, the minister has “good flexibility” and fulfills the role expected of him in the president’s strategy. “He feeds this base, then the minister comes and repairs it,” he said.

On Thursday (10), the president said that masks should only be used by people known to be infected with the new coronavirus, and spoke about a study requested by Health Minister Marcelo Keiroge that could free people vaccinated and cured of Covid-19 using the protection …

Bolsonaro takes revenge on Keiroge, says Dino

For Governor Maranhão, Bolsonaro’s speech was in response to Keyrogo, who in his statements to the Parliamentary Pandemic Investigation Commission (CPI) advocated the use of masks and social exclusion, initiatives often criticized by Bolsonaro, in addition to a statement that does not believe in the so-called “early treatment “Using drugs that have not been proven effective against Covid-19 is a strategy that the president advocates and advertises.

“Bolsonaro cannot get along with anyone who disagrees with him at least minimally. The minister approached the CPI and was obviously unable to defend certain absurdities, ”said Flavio Dino, for whom the president condemned the minister when he publicly called him“ this ”. The guy from Keiroga, “as he did on Thursday.

According to Dino, Bolsonaro’s demand to authorize the use of masks is “impossible to satisfy” and will not be signed by any doctor in Brazil at this time. “I believe that, unfortunately, it was revenge on the part of the president of the republic against his minister, and this is very negative at this very delicate moment that Brazil is going through.”

After the speech, Bolsonaro Queiroga said that the study would be conducted, but conditioned the flexibility of the use of masks to promote vaccination against Covid-19, without specifying, however, what vaccination coverage would be necessary for such a measure to be implemented. Currently, just over 11% of the adult population in Brazil is fully immunized, meaning it has already received two doses of the vaccine.

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President nods to his voters again, evaluates Casagrande

Gov. Espirito Santo, however, said he saw Bolsonaro as a tribute to his political base, formed by people who “neglect science” and who “have an identity with this institutional gap,” allegedly supported by the president.

“He feeds this base, then the minister comes and repairs it,” said Casagrande, who also disagrees with the president’s proposal. According to the politician, masks can be abandoned only when “the population is effectively immunized and unable to transmit infections.”

Casagrande said the health minister had shown “flexibility” with the president, but he did not rule out possible disagreements between the minister and Bolsonaro in the future. However, this conflict would not have happened yet.

“Minister Keiroga has good flexibility, but this [desentendimento com o presidente] it cannot be abandoned in the future. ”

Photo: CNN Brazil (04/16/2021)