Let the truth be told: most world leaders did not take the coronavirus pandemic seriously, and because they have this anti-science stance, many countries that are dominated by these leaders are today suffering from escalating deaths.
The World Health Organization in the USA had already declared a pandemic on the morning of March 11, but its current president Donald Trump did not give credibility or attention to this.
Only when the NBA, which is the American basketball league, announced the suspension of the season did the alarm sound that the next few months would not follow the normality that Donald Trump was trying to achieve.
Trump will suffer a strong impact from the coronavirus in his re-election campaign and, in the last hundred days, since Covid-19 officially arrived in the USA, 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 New York Times, 26 million Americans have already requested access to unemployment insurance since March, and the country's economy fell 4.8% in the first quarter, the biggest drop since the Great Recession.
The great strategy adopted by Trum to get through this period is through navigation between the speech to his voters and the necessary government measures. In the meantime, he sees his approval follow the way he handles the crisis, the target of much criticism.
We all know that in January and February, the president completely ignored American intelligence warnings, 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 research shows that his science-denying speech, propagating miraculous solutions without any scientific basis, has profoundly damaged his image in the USA. Everything indicates that he will not win re-election.
Source: O Globo Newspaper
