Poetics

US President Donald Trump working in a conference room while receiving treatment after testing positive for coronavirus at the Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) JOYCE N. BOGHOSIA / THE WHITE HO / EFE

In these strange times, reality twists itself.

The contagion of President Trump cannot be considered the result of chance, but the result of a long and insistent disregard for science in general and public health in particular.

However, and although we know that it has never existed and will never exist, it seems a supreme act of poetic justice.

His team has been quick to claim that his symptoms are mild, but the severity of his situation is beyond dispute.

One month before the elections, at a disadvantage in the polls, his electoral campaign paralyzed for at least two weeks out of four ...

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