MEXICO CITY - As the coronavirus swept the globe early last year, Mexican officials made an unusual decision: They wouldn't impose "coercive" measures to force citizens to obey pandemic restrictions.
No curfews. No arrests. No fines.
Other countries would enforce their lockdowns with police checkpoints and $10,000 penalties. But Mexico had lived through 70 years of authoritarian rule. The country had "a sad, unfortunate, shameful history" of abuse by security forces, said Hugo López-Gatell, the coronavirus czar. And half the population lived in poverty. Clashes between the police and poor laborers could spread the virus - and tarnish a government built on leftist credentials.
Nearly a year later, Mexico is battling a severe epidemic. Hospitals are at the breaking point. Residents flouting stay-at-home messages fueled a new explosion of cases during the Christmas holidays. Deaths have soared past 150,000 - the fourth-highest total in the world, and 19th-highest based on population, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University. On Sunday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he, too, had tested positive for the coronavirus.
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WNU Editor: All my friends in Mexico tell me that these numbers are a fraction of what the real numbers are .... Mexico reports 17,165 new coronavirus cases, 1,743 more deaths (Reuters).
As poor as Mexico is, it is double stupid for it to pull the shit Democrats governors have pulled.
ReplyDeleteIn Californication Newsom has called for an end to lockdown when cases are higher than when he started the lockdown in December. Newsom and everyone else in California can no longer put up with his BS.