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A few hours after confirming that he had been infected with Covid-19, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recorded a video in which he appeared smiling and taking medication : "We know that today there are other medications that can help fight the coronavirus. None have its proven scientific efficacy, but ... Another person who is working for it! I trust chloroquine, and you? "he said with an air of advertisement.

The blind trust of Bolsonaro in this medicine will usually be worth much criticism, and he, a friend of the controversy, he knows perfectly. On his first day of confinement, he returned to the networks: "To those who bet against hydroxychloroquine but do not present alternatives, I regret to inform you that I am very good with its use and that, with the grace of God, I will live a long time," he warned.

In his first officially ill hours, Bolsonaro already shows that he is ready to use the contagion in his favor. From now on, he himself will be the example of what he has been preaching all these months: the virus is a flu, it should not be exaggerated, chloroquine works . Having a solution in pharmacies, there would be no need for those confinements that the governors have implemented and that, as he often repeats, have "destroyed the economy."

If everything goes well, in a few days, when he recovers, Bolsonaro will appear before Brazil as living proof that the rest of the authorities were exaggerating. It wasn't that bad. A little rest and a few chloroquine tablets were enough. If things go wrong and he ends up in a hospital, the vice president, Army General Antônio Hamilton Mourão, could temporarily take power.

Bolsonaro confessed that on Sunday he already felt "more or less" , but did not cancel his schedule until Tuesday. In all this time, he could have infected dozens of people, including the journalists he summoned to say he was infected. After explaining to the microphones, he took a few steps back and took off his mask so that his face could be seen clearly. The Brazilian Press Association sued him for a possible crime of attack on public health.

A CURIOUS DATE

The president has also had daily contact with advisers, butlers, security personnel ... The Prime Minister, however, will not preventively isolate anyone . "There is no medical protocol, either from the Ministry of Health or from the WHO, that recommends isolation for the simple contact with positive cases," argued the Government, despite the fact that the WHO does make that recommendation .

Against all odds, and despite his contact with a multitude of people, at the moment no one around him has tested positive. It was also striking that Bolsonaro announced that he had Covid-19 the same day that one of his sons, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro , was questioned for the first time in the case that investigates him for money laundering.

In the next few days, the president himself was also going to be questioned, to explain the alleged attempts to interfere with the Federal Police to protect his family from investigations . For now, he will continue to be confined in the Alvorada Palace, taking charge of his particular narrative from social networks.

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