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Judi Lynn

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Mon Oct 11, 2021, 03:37 AM Oct 2021

Brazil's unvaccinated president angry at missed soccer game

BY MAURICIO SAVARESE AP SPORTS WRITER
OCTOBER 10, 2021 9:40 PM

SAO PAULO

Brazil's president claimed Sunday that COVID-19 protocols at soccer matches had prevented him from attending a game.

Jair Bolsonaro said he had wanted to go to a Brazilian championship match in the city of Santos, but did not because he is not vaccinated.

“Why a vaccine passport? I wanted to watch Santos now and they said I needed to be vaccinated. Why should that be?” Bolsonaro told journalists near Santos.

Bolsonaro is currently under a Senate investigation for his handling of the pandemic. Brazil has surpassed 600,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, according to health ministry data.

Read more at: https://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/world/article254912137.html#storylink=cpy

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Brazil's unvaccinated president angry at missed soccer game (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2021 OP
"Why should that be?" Grokenstein Oct 2021 #1
Remember him standing outside a pizza joint in NYC with his men, all eating out in the street? secondwind Oct 2021 #2

Grokenstein

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1. "Why should that be?"
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 03:49 AM
Oct 2021

Because they don't want you spreading disease, Mister Plague Rat.
GET VACCINATED.
It isn't all about you.

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