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This jab you won’t skip, Jair

The list of possible crimes committed by former President Jair Bolsonaro during his 4-year term, that had a pandemic in the middle, is huge.

From recommending antimalarial drugs to treat Covid (without solid evidence backing it) to scandals regarding to purchase of coronavirus vaccines during the health crisis, the far-right leader became known for being a ‘misleading acts collector,’ and now many people want him to be held accountable for his acts.

Not surprisingly, the one issue that led Mr. Bolsonaro to be once again in the news this week was… coronavirus-related.

Not specifically about the national health administration he failed to conduct, but about himself: the ex-president, who always voiced against vaccines, is believed to have fraudulently gotten its Covid vaccination records in order to enter the U.S. And if he really did that, he basically violated the U.S. law and committed a federal crime.

The North American nation demands that noncitizens must be vaccinated before entering the country, something that would be required to Mr. Bolsonaro since he went to Florida for a three-month sabbatical period in recent times, simultaneously to President Lula’s first weeks in office.

The police is now taking a deeper look at a possible scheme that allowed Bolsonaro, as well as his teenage daughter, to be given falsified vaccine information. The irregularity, if proven, would only enlarge an already-long list of things that marked the former administration for the worst of reasons.

Supporters of Jair used to randomly say “tic-tac” when they claimed their conspiracy theories were close to becoming true. But now, the one who has to fear the clock ticking is their leader…