Populism brings them together … This is how 3 presidents contributed to spreading Corona

The Corona epidemic showed the true face of the right-wing populist rhetoric, and how it contributed to tragedies, which amounted to hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of injuries. This happened in the United States during the era of former US President Donald Trump, and it is happening now in Brazil with its populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, and finally in India and its prime minister, Narendra Modi, who also carries an extremist right-wing rhetoric.

The three countries top the list of countries in the world in terms of injuries and deaths, with the exception of the United States, which began to control the epidemic with the expansion of the vaccination process and the new policy of President Joe Biden’s administration. Brazil has recorded a daily death rate of 4 thousand, which is the highest recorded in the world, while India is heading in the same direction after the daily deaths reached more than 3 thousand deaths, and nearly 400 thousand injuries, noting that the magazine “TIME” The American government has questioned these numbers, and said that it is likely that they are more than those officially announced. Read also Governmental initiatives in Brazil to confront Corona and fight hunger together Tsunami of death … How did India turn into the largest global disaster of the Corona epidemic?Why have Corona injuries and deaths increased? Chest diseases consultant answers

The three leaders have met in the way to deal with the epidemic from the beginning, first by belittling it and minimizing its danger, and opposing lockdown measures and social distancing, then giving priority to narrow

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Elections first

The Indian case in dealing with the Corona epidemic – especially in its second wave – deserves a lot of reflection. Because of its manifestations of political populism and its ability to cause disasters, during the week that India was announcing the highest cases of HIV infection, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party published videos of one of its leader Modi’s political rallies, where 5 Indian states hold elections next month.

In addition to Modi, there is his interior minister, Amit Shah, who also held election rounds with thousands of his party’s supporters in eastern India, and these rallies continued until the situation reached an indefinite stage, and Modi announced the cancellation of his election tours starting at the end of the week.

The ruling party in India had hastened to announce victory over the epidemic “under the leadership and vision of Modi” and said, “We presented the world with a model in the face of the epidemic,” in an attempt to exploit this slogan in the electoral campaign that has continued since January of this year, as Modi does not stop organizing Electoral gatherings in various Indian cities.

Modi tried to turn the vaccine process into a public relations campaign, as billboards were published in Canada last March thanking Modi for exporting vaccines abroad, noting that 64% of Indians in the villages refuse to receive the vaccine, due to the spread of conspiracy theories and false news about Vaccines.

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The main reason for the outbreak of the epidemic in a way that made it out of control is to allow the religious festival “Kumbh Mela” in the city of Haridwar, where millions of Hindus perform diving rituals in the sacred “Ganges” river, and the festival began since March 11, despite the recording of 1600 injuries among the ranks. The participants.

Despite the many warnings, the leaders of the ruling “Bharatiya Janata Party” were spreading advertisements in the national media, confirming that attending the festival “is safe and clean,” and the Prime Minister of the state in which the rituals of worship are held announced that “no one will be prevented due to Corona because we are on He is certain that belief in God will overcome fear of the virus, “he says. The Prime Minister of India remained silent despite all indications about the spread of the virus among the ranks of visitors until the middle of this month, when he announced that participation should be “symbolic” to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

In addition to spreading many myths, as the head of the ruling party called for drinking cow urine in order to treat Corona and strengthen the immune system.

This situation India has reached has natural causes: This is given the recklessness with which the political leadership dealt with the epidemic. The world is holding its breath for fear of the double mutation of the virus that easily escapes from the immune system, and it may infect those who have previously been infected with the virus.

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Post or virus

Since the emergence of the Corona virus, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has taken a solitary path for himself in dealing with the epidemic, and although he was infected with it, he always denied its seriousness, and refused social distancing measures, wearing a muzzle, and general lockdown measures, and the result was Brazil recording the highest daily toll in the number The deaths amounted to more than 4 thousand cases. Advertising

And the Brazilian President entered into never-ending battles with his country’s officials, as he described the Brazilian city governors – who approved the closure measures to confront the virus – as “bossy and tyrannicals”, and while the deaths were still on the rise, Bolsonaro announced that “the government has done everything necessary and the time has come.” Open the country. “

The number of deaths in Brazil exceeded a quarter of a million people, and yet the Brazilian president directed harsh criticism to those who demanded the closure of the country, asking them to stop “whining and complaining” and said, “How long will you continue this crying? How long will we hide in homes?”

And the situation rolled to the point of the emergence of the “Brazilian boom”, which is considered more deadly, and spread in Latin American countries. Indeed, parliamentary investigations are looking into a genocide of the indigenous people in the Amazon affected by the virus, without government intervention to save them.

The seriousness of the president’s handling of the epidemic prompted Parliament to move and launch a parliamentary investigation into a list of charges for the Brazilian president, which, if approved, may be dismissed, and in the least case to ensure that he will not run again.

 Trump School

Former US President Donald Trump has been a role model for populists around the world, even in dealing with the epidemic, starting with refusing to wear a muzzle and procrastinating in announcing a general closure, and publishing a lot of false information about the virus, which made America the world leader in the number of deaths.

Like Modi, Trump was insistent on organizing election rallies despite high numbers of HIV infections, and publicly criticized state governors who announced the continuation of the closure, and downplayed Anthony Fuchi, chief infectious disease expert, as a “disaster”, and in a phone call with members of his election campaign. Trump said, “People are tired of Fauci and all these idiots.”

The situation in America is heading to stability after Trump’s departure, but he left behind him a country that leads the world in terms of deaths.