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Collapsed hospitals from north to south of the country and seriously ill with covid-19 flown thousands of kilometers away in search of a bed in an ICU ... it is the image of Brazil these days.

But President Jair Bolsonaro continues his usual agenda, traveling around the country inaugurating roads or sports centers.

On those trips, in which of course he almost never wears a mask,

crowds with his sympathizers

are common

, which he usually harangues shooting from all sides.

On Thursday, in the state of Minas Gerais to inaugurate a train track, he criticized those who ask him to buy more vaccines:

"There are idiots on social networks, in the press (saying) buy vaccines!

You go and buy them to your mother! There are no vaccines for sale in the world, "he snapped, being loudly applauded.

Shortly after, in the state of Goiás, he charged against the restrictions that the state governors are implementing to try to stop the spread of the virus.

"Essential activity is all that necessary for the head of the family to bring the bread home, damn it.

Why that nonsense of closing the shop?"

In the last 24 hours, Brazil beat its record of deaths (1,699) and infections (75,102) and already exceeds 261,000 deaths, but for Bolsonaro the feeling of alarm is not justified: "You did not stay at home, you did not cower. We have to face our problems. Enough of the delicacies, of being a complainer,

are we going to cry until when? Obviously, we have to respect the elderly, those with illnesses

, but where is Brazil going to end up? If we stop? The Bible itself says it, in 365 citations it says: 'Do not fear' ".

In addition to the collapse in hospitals, in recent days, several Brazilian capitals had to stop vaccinating due to

lack of doses

.

Most of those that are being used at the moment in Brazil are those of the Chinese laboratory Sinovac that the governor of São Paulo, João Doria, Bolsonaro's main political rival, obtained months ago.

The Brazilian president spent months criticizing vaccines, questioning their efficacy and safety and even saying that he did not want problems if someone "turned into an alligator" after being immunized.

Bolsonaro says there are no vaccines on the market, but seven months ago,

Pfizer offered Brazil 70 million doses and the government looked the other way.

Now, the Health Ministry is hastily announcing that it has a pre-agreement to buy 100 million doses from Pfizer and 38 million from Janssen, just after Congress approved a mechanism that allows states and municipalities to buy their own vaccines, to bypass the paralysis of the federal government.

Brazil

will have more vaccines, but late and bad.

A parallel narrative

In his inflamed street speeches, Bolsonaro has no qualms about blatantly misinforming: yesterday, in a few minutes, he said that the WHO does not recommend social isolation, that he could not buy vaccines because he depended on the endorsement of the regulatory body, that Brazil is one of the countries that more vaccine in the world and

that Justice withdrew its powers to act in the pandemic.

Of all these lies, the last one is the most important in creating its parallel narrative.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the Federal Supreme Court determined that states and municipalities could also apply policies to fight the pandemic, something that Bolsonaro frequently distorts to

present himself as a bound president, with

no room for maneuver: "I was elected to lead Brazil, I hope may that power be restored to me, "he complained.

The message is clear: if the country is going badly, it is because the governors sank the country with their unnecessary restrictions or because they did not know how to properly use the resources sent from Brasilia to reinforce the hospitals.

By projecting the image of a president without powers and blaming everything on the governors, Bolsonaro externalises all his responsibilities and returns to the 'outsider' discourse that led him to win the elections two years ago,

that of the common man against the 'establishment'.

All the denial and provocative speech is meticulously calculated to keep his most radical fan base active, which he cannot do without.

In recent months, Bolsonaro's popularity has eroded, but he did not drop dramatically: he still maintains a very loyal support of around 30% of the electorate.

The key is to

keep them mobilized until the 2022 elections

and keep our fingers crossed to make the extreme polarization formula work again.

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