Brazil’s Former President Now in Hot Water Over Vaccination Status

Jair Bolsonaro was indicted for falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, but the vaccine itself is neither safe nor effective.
Brazil’s Former President Now in Hot Water Over Vaccination Status
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (R) speaks to supporters next to his wife Michelle Bolsonaro during a rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 25, 2024. Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images
Augusto Zimmermann
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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was one of the few world leaders who railed against the mRNA vaccines. His administration declined several offers from pharmaceutical company Pfizer to sell Brazil tens of millions of such vaccines in 2020.

And yet, Mr. Bolsonaro has now been formally accused of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status.

The federal police indictment, released by the Supreme Court on March 19, alleges that the former president and 16 others inserted false information in a public health database to make it appear as though he, his 12-year-old daughter, and several others in his circle had received the vaccine.

Police detective Fabio Alvarez Shor, who signed the indictment, argues in his report that Mr. Bolsonaro and his aides changed their vaccination status to “issue their respective [vaccination] certificates and use them to cheat health restrictions.”

If convicted, the 68-year-old politician could spend up to 12 years behind bars.

Mr. Bolsonaro’s lawyer, Fabio Wajngarten, has called his client’s indictment “absurd.”

“When he was president, he was completely exempted from showing any kind of certificate on his trips. This is political persecution and an attempt to void the enormous political capital that has now grown,” Mr. Wajngarten said.

Mr. Bolsonaro has always stated that he did not take the COVID-19 vaccine because it is neither safe nor effective.

“It’s a selective investigation. I’m calm, I don’t owe anything,” he told Reuters. “The world knows that I didn’t take the vaccine.”

Of course, Mr. Bolsonaro was right to choose not to receive the mRNA vaccination.

As evidence of this, the National Police in Spain charged a Big Pharma boss with falsifying his own vaccination status!

As reported in 2022, the president of European pharmaceutical giant PharmaMar, José María Fernandez Sousa-Faro, was caught in a scandal involving people being added to the National Immunization Registry in exchange for large sums of money.

He is among more than 2,220 celebrities and European elites on the list drawn up by national police of those falsely disclosing they were vaccinated against COVID-19.

Dr. Roland Salmon, a retired medical epidemiologist and former director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Center, and David Bell, a public health physician, together penned a joint article for the British Medical Journal, commenting:

“The argument that [the mRNA vaccine] protects others is weak or contrary to evidence.”

“From a public health standpoint, it makes poor sense to impose vaccine side-effects on people at minimal risk of severe COVID-19. The argument that it protects others is weak or contrary to evidence.”

However, Justice Luis Robert Barroso went ahead with vaccine mandates and accused the former president of being a “denialist.”

As can be seen, unelected top federal judges in Brazil have misled the population about the efficacy of mRNA vaccines, since the evidence of their lack of efficacy and safety is now compelling.

In fact, even Pfizer scientists now acknowledge that there have been increased cases of myocarditis after such vaccinations.

To add insult to injury, there is now such an attempt to criminalise a president who merely attempted to protect his people, including his own daughter, from the now demonstrable side effects of a notorious pharmaceutical experiment.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Augusto Zimmermann
Augusto Zimmermann
Ph.D.
Augusto Zimmermann, PhD, LLD, is a professor and head of law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth. He is also president of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association and served as a commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia from 2012 to 2017. Mr. Zimmermann has authored numerous books, including “Western Legal Theory: History, Concepts and Perspectives" and “Foundations of the Australian Legal System: History, Theory, and Practice.”
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