Let the truth be told: most world leaders did not take the coronavirus pandemic seriously, and because of this anti-science stance, many countries that are dominated by these rulers are suffering today from escalating deaths.
The US World Health Organization had already declared a pandemic on the morning of March 11, but its current president Donald Trump did not give credibility or pay attention to this.
Only when the NBA, which is the American basketball league, announced the suspension of the season for the alarm to sound that the next few months would not follow the normality that Donald Trump was trying to imprint.
Trump will suffer a strong impact from the coronavirus on his re-election campaign and, in the last hundred days, since Covid-19 officially arrived in the US, he has seen his behavior in handling the crisis become a central element in the race for the White House.
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So far, the US elections scheduled for November 3 will be a referendum on Trump's stance on the pandemic that, as of this Wednesday afternoon (29), has infected more than 1 million people and killed at least 60,000 in the US.
The terrible public health disaster has been accompanied by numbers that really worry the republican: according to information from the The New York Times, 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits since March, and the nation's economy fell 4.8% in the first quarter, the biggest drop since the Great Recession.
The great strategy adopted by Trum to go through this period is through navigation between the speech to his voters and the necessary government measures. In between, he sees his approval accompany the way he handles the crisis, the target of much criticism.
We all know that in the months of January and February, the president completely ignored the alerts of American intelligence, thus belittling the pandemic.
In March, convinced by his technical team, he gave seriousness to the situation in the country and established social distancing rules that were extended until this Thursday (30).
Trump's future
The most recent researches show that due to his science-denial speech, propagating miraculous solutions, without any scientific basis, it deeply damaged his image in the USA. Everything indicates that he will not get re-election.
Source: O Globo Newspaper
