Damascus-Sana
At a time when the countries of the world are trying to unite efforts to confront the new Corona virus and limit its spread, the United States is floundering in methods of dealing with the outbreak of this virus after harvesting an increasing number of American lives, exceeding three thousand people amid deepening divisions between the Republican and Democratic parties and the efforts of President Donald Trump to politicize This pandemic serves his interests.
The major inconsistencies in the way politicians and state governors in particular deal with the outbreak of the Corona virus, according to the Associated Press, have revealed the depth of divisions between Republicans and Democrats each according to their political orientations and stressed that a global pandemic with the gravity of Corona is also unable to bridge the gap and political divisions in the Trump era.
The differences that have arisen among American politicians have increased since Corona arrived in Europe and his proven threat to the United States, where Trump adopted a stalling method by taking measures to prevent the virus from spreading and insisted on reducing his risk to the Americans, and his supporters from the Republican Party followed suit, while critical voices and demanding the move of the American administration increased. To confront the virus among the ranks of politicians in the Democratic Party, this time new and more serious differences appear between the two parties, as it directly affects the lives of Americans. The Washington Post newspaper said in an opinion article that when some officials formulate their response to a public health emergency based on facts, data and science, and another group of officials reduces the seriousness of the matter according to Trump's orders and explicit political goals, words like "tribalism and polarization" do not clarify What is really going on.
The newspaper pointed out that the great damage that Trump caused in his dealings with the Corona virus lies in a large number of American officials following his orders and reducing their gravity, including the governor of Oklahoma and West Virginia, who encouraged people to continue their lives and activities naturally.
Trump, who has faced widespread criticism for his dealings with Corona and his apparent disregard for the lives of Americans, especially in his recent statements in which he considered that counting the number of deaths due to the virus between 100 and 200 thousand deaths is a good business that finally surrendered to reality and retreated from his view of ending the health embargo and agreed under pressure of numbers and data Increased numbers of injuries and deaths are likely to extend social divergence measures to the end of April.
Trump's realization of the seriousness of the Corona virus came mostly late, but it certainly revealed that the gap between the Republican and Democratic parties and their insistence on politicizing any problem facing the United States will not be reclaimed any time soon, even if that was to tackle a serious pandemic such as Corona.
Basem Kanoon