
The Covid-19 pandemic arrived in Brazil at the beginning of 2020. While world leaders, researchers and organizations searched for answers and solutions, the Brazilian President at the time used spaces to disseminate unscientific information about the disease, contrary to the health guidelines established for prevention. to the virus. Therefore, this article aims to analyze the official statements of the Brazilian federal government, made by Bolsonaro in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. For this critical analysis, we propose the theoretical framework of Intervention Bioethics (BI). This is a documentary research, with a qualitative approach, whose main source of data was the videos and texts of official statements in the first year of the pandemic in Brazil. From the content analysis of the data, three thematic categories emerged: (1) The (ir)responsibility of the Brazilian Government, where Bolsonaro had a speech that exempted the Brazilian State from social and ethical responsibility in the face of the pandemic, defense of vertical isolation, interruption of dissemination of data on Covid-19 and the absence of a national pact with governors and mayors to work together on solutions to the pandemic; (2) Return to normality at any cost: resumption of the economy and lack of protection of life, which expresses speeches that defend the primacy of the reestablishment of economic activities to the detriment of the protection of life and health, launching the campaign "Brazil cannot stop" and pointing out that the working class and the most vulnerable, in fact, were not protected by the Brazilian State; and (3) Minimizing the disease and defending scientifically ineffective measures, which demonstrates exactly that. The ethical parameters of BI used in this analysis (responsibility, prudence, precaution, protection, prevention, vulnerability, solidarity and corporeality) were not considered by Bolsonaro at any point in the speeches given. Neglect of ethics in health care was seen in the excerpts analyzed, revealing an omissive and incoherent stance by the Former President, in the face of a health emergency that was emerging and leading to the death of thousands of Brazilians.
Speech, Federal Government, Bioethics, Covid-19, Brazil
Speech, Federal Government, Bioethics, Covid-19, Brazil
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