Valdemar says Bolsonaro would have been re-elected if he supported vaccination

• – “For my government, any vaccine, before being made available to the population, must be scientifically proven by the Ministry of Health and certified by Anvisa. The Brazilian people will not be anyone’s guinea pig.”
• – “As always, I never ran away from the truth, I tell you: I will not take the vaccine. And that’s final. If someone thinks my life is at risk, that’s my problem. And that’s final.”
• – “If you turn into an alligator, that’s your problem.. If you become a superman, if a woman grows a beard or a man starts talking nice, they won’t have anything to do with it. What’s worse: messing with people’s immune systems. How can you force someone to take a vaccine that has not completed the 3rd phase yet, that is in the experimental stage?”
• – “The rush for the vaccine is not justified because you are messing with people’s lives, you are going to inoculate something into yourself.”
• – “I had the best vaccine: the virus.”
• – “Do you know how many percent of the population will get vaccinated? From what I know, less than half will take it.”
• – “When I said medicine back there, I got hit. Nego beat me until I didn’t want to anymore. He got into the vaccine pile. The guy who gets into the vaccine pile, just the vaccine, is a useful idiot. We must have several options.”
• – “And I ask: does the vaccine have scientific proof or is it still in an experimental stage? This [em estado] experimental. I have never seen anyone die from taking hydroxychloroquine, especially in the Amazon region.”
• – “I am vaccinated in quotation marks. Everyone who contracted the virus is vaccinated, even more effectively than the vaccine itself, because you really caught the virus. Whoever caught the virus is immunized, there is no debate.”
• – “For my part, I didn’t take a vaccine and I won’t take a vaccine. It’s my right and that of anyone who doesn’t want to take it. Especially because the side and adverse effects are enormous.”

CoronaVac

• – “We joined that Oxford consortium, and by all indications [a vacina] I will get it right. One hundred million units will arrive for us. It’s not from that other country, no”the president mocked in relation to vaccines produced by China.
• – “I warn you that we will not buy vaccines from China. Just as my government does not maintain a dialogue with João Doria about covid-19.”
• – “We won’t buy it. I don’t believe it provides enough security for the population”.
• – “Death, disability and anomaly… This is the vaccine that Doria wanted to force all São Paulo residents to take. The president said that the vaccine could never be mandatory. Another one that Jair Bolsonaro wins.”
• – “It could be the side effect of the vaccine too. Everything could be. I don’t know if they’ve already reached the conclusion, but clarify and go back to researching the vaccine, CoronaVac, from China”, said the president about the suicide of 1 volunteer in Chinese vaccine trials.
• – “The effectiveness of that vaccine in São Paulo seems to be low, right?”
• – “Is the 50% good or not?”said the president about CoronaVac.
• – “You are seeing that this vaccine, CoronaVac, is having problems in some countries around the world, such as Chile, among others. In Brazil, it is no different”.
• – “Now I ask you: which country in the world monitors those who have received the vaccine? Are there people suffering side effects and what is happening? CoronaVac is still experimental and there are people who want to make it mandatory”.
• – “I’m going to take a vaccine that can be used all over the world, I can’t take the vaccine from São Paulo, which is not accepted in Europe or the United States. I have to take the specific one accepted worldwide”.
• – “No one can force anyone to take a vaccine”.
• – “I don’t know if I was infected [de novo] or not in the past. I said my IgG is 991. I’m doing very well, better than the people who took CoronaVac. Best not. Much better. What happened to me? I don’t know”.
• – “What happens, what do you get the vaccine for? To have antibodies. It’s not that? My antibody rate is up there. […] I’m fine, am I going to take the vaccine, CoronaVac, for example, which won’t be as effective? What am I going to take it for? Has everyone already had the vaccine in Brazil? After everyone takes it, I will decide my future there.”

Vaccination mandatory

• – “Nno one can force anyone to take the vaccine.”
• – “Despite art. 3rd, item III, letter “d”, of Law 13,979/20 provides that public authorities may determine compulsory vaccination, the Government of Brazil does not see the need to adopt such measures nor will it recommend their adoption by local managers”.
• – “The Ministry of Health will offer vaccination, safely, without haste, at the appropriate time, after scientific evidence and validated by Anvisa, however, without imposing or making vaccination mandatory”.
• – “Mandatory vaccine only here in Faísca”said Bolsonaro about his dog.
• – “Why force a child to take a vaccine? What is the chance of a child, for example, contracting the virus and dying? […] It seems, I don’t want to say, that it’s the vaccine lobby. […] The interests of the pharmaceutical industries that are making billions from the vaccine. It will be? It doesn’t make sense. According to what I see in studies, I’m saying this here, studies that show that those who have already contracted the virus and recovered, obviously. [Para essas pessoas] The vaccine is worthless, but the pressure continues.”
• – “For me, the vaccine is optional. I could, as I can nowadays, go for a mandatory vaccination, but I would never do that because, even though you don’t believe it, I defend truth and democracy.”
• – “We ask: why the vaccine passport? This collar they want to put on the Brazilian people. Where is our freedom? I would rather die than lose my freedom.”
• – “The Supreme [Tribunal Federal] gave powers to governors and mayors, right? I talk about my line: I didn’t close any bars. And I will never demand your vaccine passport”.
• – “Vaccines for children: first, only authorized by the father. If any mayor, governor, dictator wants to impose it, that’s another story. But from the federal government, it must have parental authorization. It must have a medical prescription.”
• – “The vaccine will be non-mandatory. So, no one is obliged to vaccinate your child. If it is not mandatory, no mayor or governor – there are some out there with this idea – will be able to prevent the boy or girl from enrolling in schools due to lack of vaccination.”.

Purchase of vaccines

• – “We signed this protocol in the past and became part of this select group [para compra da vacina de Oxford/AstraZeneca]. Our counterpart is basically financial at the moment, almost R$2 billion. Maybe in December or January there will be the possibility of a vaccine and then this problem will be overcome a few weeks later”.
• – “A newspaper abroad published very promising news about the Oxford vaccine. Several companies and universities are looking for a vaccine against Covid. What we have to do here is not to rush, not to run over, not to buy this or that without any proven one. We are waiting, logically, to be able to better talk about this subject, for it to be published in the scientific journal.”
• – “Brazil will make vaccines available free of charge and voluntarily after proven efficacy and registration with Anvisa. We will protect the population by respecting their freedom, and not use it for political purposes, putting their health at risk due to personal power projects”.
• – “There are idiots that we see on social media, in the press, [dizendo] ‘go buy vaccine’. Only if it’s at your mother’s house. It does not have [vacina] pto sell the world.”
• – “Brazil is doing its part. The federal government has shown its work. By the end of the year, we will have more than 400 million doses available to Brazilians.”

Immunization of children

• – “Anvisa is not subordinate to me. Make that very clear. I do not interfere there. I asked, unofficially, for the names of the people who approved the vaccine for children aged 5 and over. We want to publicize the names of these people, so that everyone is aware and, obviously, forms their own judgment.”
• – “If it’s up to us, yours isn’t even mandatory, it’s freedom. Children are very serious. Possible future adverse effects are not known. It’s unbelievable, sorry, what Anvisa did. Unbelievable”.
• – “The issue of vaccines for children is very incipient, the world still has doubts, and no children are dying to justify an emergency vaccine.”
• – “300 or so children, I regret every death, especially children who we feel much more. But it does not justify vaccination due to the adverse side effects that these people have”.