{"id":204532,"date":"2020-03-26T07:38:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T07:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204532"},"modified":"2020-03-28T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:22:19","slug":"coronavirus-advice-from-mexicos-president-live-life-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204532","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus advice from Mexico&#8217;s president: &#8216;Live life as usual&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>David Agren \u2013 The Guardian March 25, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gu-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f0a137deaa192051e16e905c93bf4088f4e879aa\/257_2_4706_2825\/master\/4706.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4d77c72736fcde0909fa8fa3e835f769\" alt=\"Amlo poses for photographs with supporters as he arrives at a banking convention in Acapulco on 13 March.\" \/> <span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">From a bountiful table filled with culinary delights from Oaxaca, Mexico\u2019s president offered unusual advice for a country facing the coronavirus crunch: keep dining out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to keep living life as usual,\u201d a relaxed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador<\/a> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=214737003208063\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">insisted<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in an online video shot during a weekend tour of the southern Mexican state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI\u2019ll tell you when not to go out any longer,\u201d the left-wing populist said, explaining that the pandemic was still only in its first phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIf you\u2019re able and have the means to do so, continue taking your family out to eat \u2026 because that strengthens the economy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">L\u00f3pez Obrador, who most know as Amlo, has responded to the coronavirus crisis with nonchalance \u2013 never missing an opportunity to contradict the advice of public health officials or paint the pandemic as a plot to derail his presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In recent weeks Amlo has routinely avoided social distancing and organised campaign-style rallies rife with gladhanding, hugs and baby-kissing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Amlo has also resisted ratcheting up measures to slow the virus \u2013 such as calling off mass events until recently or closing schools and businesses \u2013 arguing that doing so would unnecessarily harm the vast swaths of the population economically unable to isolate themselves for several weeks or months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Even his attempts at promoting social distancing seemed petulant. Last week <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lopezobrador_\/status\/1241204697014448129?s=20\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">he tweeted a video<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of a young girl with braided hair lauding his presidential agenda \u2013 \u201cwe\u2019re with you and your great national project\u201d, she said \u2013 to which Amlo replied: \u201cI wanted to smother her with kisses, but couldn\u2019t because of social distancing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/coronavirus-advice-from-mexicos-president-live-life-as-usual\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador get the memo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204534,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204532\/revisions\/204534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}