Comment: He's definitely "Mexico's Trump"!
The President said that he is guided by the recommendations of the Mexican Health authorities, who advise him to follow other measures such as healthy distance.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the use of a mask is not an essential preventive measure in the face of the coronavirus pandemic after the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Mexican authorities to be an example in the use of the mask.
In his morning press conference, the President explained that he is guided by the recommendations issued by the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, and the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, who further advises healthy distance, among others.
"Dr. Hugo López Gatell and Dr. Alcocer tell me that it is not essential, that there are other measures and I think that the best thing is a healthy distance and taking care of ourselves.
"I am guided by what those in charge of carrying out the entire strategy to face the pandemic recommend me, from the beginning, what they have recommended is that I keep a healthy distance that is the most important thing and wash my hands and be very careful, take care of ourselves, that is the fundamental thing.
"That is also what I would remind everyone again, that we take care of ourselves, more than the impositions that you do not go out, stay at home, act in this way or another, those recommendations above all that have to do with a curfew or coercive measures all that is on the surface of the authorities who want to be very rude, want to show their strong hand, dictatorships.
"All this is not the most important thing, the fundamental thing is that by guaranteeing freedom, awareness is made that we must take care of ourselves, that we are already of legal age, there has been a lot of information about what should be done, what should not be done."
















Comment: It is quite revealing who has kept a modicum of reason and rationale during this health 'crisis'. AMLO has navigated the concerns of his people as well as weighed truths and fallacies concerning the virus. Not every politician has achieved a cogent understanding, nor a plausible and humane way forward. And, those who managed to do this remain under attack.
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