Thread by @mariliacout

1. Bolsonaro and COVID19

We think this may be a dangerous and extremely effective propaganda stunt: bolsonaro publicly declared that he assumed he already had the virus long ago and "AS IN MOST CASES" (sic.) didn't even feel it.

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2. Also, not only is he still a chloroquine proponent, but he claims to be taking it for over 2 months (I don't believe that). We also think this is part of the eugenics agenda:

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3. they are forcing the poor (predominantly non-white) back to work, no catastrophe-money, no masks, and are close to approving widespread preventive use of chloroquine.

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4. Now, chloroquine can easily kill part of the vulnerable population. Everything you read about it is true. In 1984-5 my masters research (which I changed later to chemical ecology) was on primaquine, a chloroquine "cousin".

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5. This whole class of anti-malarials is extremely toxic and possibly lethal, mefloquine being the extreme case. I know one single person who survived either cerebral malaria or mefloquine.

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6. We'll never know. His sequelae are consistent with both. Bolsonaro's mob is genocidal and this may be the smartest marketing stunt up to now.

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7. My research then was about the chemical interaction of the antimalarial with chelating agents at the electron orbital level. The practical objective was to understand how chelating agents can reduce these drugs' high toxicity by decreasing their erythrocyte killing ability.

8. Our mentor in zooogy and biodiversity, Paulo Vanzolini, had 14 falciparum strains living inside him (for him, a low price to pay to help to solve one of the biggest scientific puzzles).

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9. He lived up to 90 years of age, clear minded, productive and as far as I know he never made chronic use of antimalarials. I was in Amazonia frequently and never touched antimalarials, nor did my colleagues.

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10. It should be a crime of negligence for a public figure to promote such a dangerous drug and life-risk behaviors but then again, the American and Brazilian fascist occupants of executive power were put there to promote exactly that:

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11. the "resistance" to "tyrannical" laws that protect the vulnerable and regulate corporations while passing laws to promote genocide.

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