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Relembre: Drauzio Varella já chamou covid-19 de 'resfriadinho'
40 classified statements · 0 politicians · August 12, 2020 · 4 min
40 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Digital environment regulation, Public Health and Hospital Infrastructure, Education.
Classified statements
Excerpts classified by topic and stance. This is not the full transcript of the video.
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0:00
We continue here with the i's dotted and a little while before the break Guilherme Fiúza mentioned a video by the doctor Drauzio Varela talking about the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
0:09
About: regulate the digital environment
It's a video that's even difficult to find on the internet now because it has been removed from practically all the platforms where it had been available until then.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence reports removal of the video from the internet without advocating a specific measure.
Desconhecido
0:18
It's a statement from January 30 by Drauzio Varela regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.
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0:23
Let's follow what he said.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
0:26
About: implement public health measures to control the Covid-19 pandemic
The virus will arrive here and many Brazilians will be infected.
Why it was classified this way · 66% confidence states that the virus will arrive and many will be infected, without proposing action.
Desconhecido
0:30
And then you'll ask me, so, are you going to keep going out on the street?
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Desconhecido
0:34
About: maintain normal social activities during the pandemic
Of course, of course I will.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence declares explicitly 'claro que vou' to continue walking in the street.
- For
Desconhecido
0:36
About: maintain normal social activities during the pandemic
I don't think any change in habits is justified.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence states that a change of habits is not justified, advocating a normal routine.
Desconhecido
0:39
Think about it a little.
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0:40
You open the newspaper and there's 'Coronavirus' on the front page of every Brazilian newspaper and every newspaper in the world.
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0:46
What impression does that give?
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0:48
It gives the impression that a catastrophe is happening.
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0:51
Not even those images people talk about from the Spanish flu.
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0:55
My grandmother used to tell that in Brás, where we lived, people would put the corpses at the door, on the sidewalk, and then a cart would pass by taking them all to be buried in shallow graves.
Desconhecido
1:14
That will never happen.
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1:16
First, because this virus does not have that potential.
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1:19
Of every 100 people who catch the virus... 80, 90 people have a trivial little cold.
Desconhecido
1:29
So, the remarks by Drauzio Varela — I remember it's a video from January 30 and, subsequently, a few weeks later, he recorded another video in which he did admit Covid-19's destructive potential.
Desconhecido
1:42
Augusto.
Desconhecido
1:43
A lot of people were mistaken, right?
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1:45
I myself made mistakes, led by optimism.
Desconhecido
1:51
I expected the damage to be smaller, based on other types of coronaviruses that proved to be very different from this one.
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2:06
Drauzio Varela was one of them.
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2:09
Davi Uip himself also thought that... I remember that in an interview on Jornal da Manhã I asked, during the conversation, 'how do you see it?', he said, 'look... not much, not many people die,' and so on.
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2:25
Now, what astonishes me is the effort that the doctors who were wrong now make to exaggerate in the opposite direction and treat those who were wrong like them, as if they were 'umas mistas quadradas'.
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2:44
So how can that be?
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2:45
They were wrong too.
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2:47
And they start to pose as seers.
Desconhecido
2:51
That guy who is always writing things there, Vila Marino...
Desconhecido
2:57
Átila Yamarino, the biologist?
Desconhecido
2:58
Átila Yamarino, nobody says anything about his mistake.
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3:01
I repeat here, I'll repeat, the exhaustion.
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3:06
I thought about 15,000 would die; it's a reasonable mistake, 85.
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3:12
And he thought a million would die.
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3:14
To reach his million... the damage has to be much greater and he keeps making guesses.
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Desconhecido
3:21
About: postpone resumption of in-person classes
It's too early to return to classes.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence says clearly 'É cedo para voltar às aulas', asking to postpone reopening.
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Desconhecido
3:25
About: postpone resumption of in-person classes
The school year does not need to resume.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence states 'O ano letivo não precisa recomeçar', advocating postponement of classes.
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3:28
These people who do not even have the humility to recognize their mistake, they are connected to that... They based themselves on the data from that Imperial College there, which got everything wrong.
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3:39
And he continues to pose as a seer, giving numbers.
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3:44
These guys have no authority for anything.
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