Facebook Pulls Bolsonaro Video Saying Vaccines Give People AIDS - Gizmodo
A bizarre video message from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posted to Facebook on Friday was finally deleted early Monday morning because it was spreading misinformation about covid-19.
Bolsonaro claimed in the video that covid-19 vaccines were giving people AIDS.
“People who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 are developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome much faster than expected,” Bolsonaro said, according to an English translation by France 24.But Bolsonaro, who contracted covid-19 but survived, has been a major impediment to getting Brazilians vaccinated against covid-19, the only thing that will stop the coronavirus pandemic in the long term.
“Even before the pandemic, President Jair Bolsonaro commanded an anti-indigenous policy that deliberately exposed native peoples to a lack of assistance, harassment, land invasions and violence, with these acts of outright hostility intensifying … after the arrival of the virus,” the draft report says, according to a copy reviewed by the Guardian.