Swimming against the tide ... Mexico is the only country that has encouraged its citizens to leave their homes

Mexican President Lopez Obrador considered that paralyzing the economy by quarantine would have worse consequences for the poor than the Coruna epidemic, preferring to pursue a strategy that shocked many of his citizens who took the initiative.

The French Liberation newspaper writer Francois Xavier Gomez was quoted by President Obrador as saying last week in a televised address while addressing his people: "Do not stop going out, go to restaurants", in a policy that contradicts the restrictions imposed on travel and movement in the rest of the world. .

Rather, this president multiplied the signs of denial of the new Corona epidemic, when he stepped into popular crowds and kept accepting every child approaching him, refusing to use the sterile killers of bacteria, according to Gomez.

Obrador also commented on his participation in the videoconference summit devoted to Coruna, saying that he expressed to the leaders of other countries "the solidarity of the Mexican people with the peoples of the world who are suffering from the epidemic," as if it was unlikely that his country would be concerned with this.

However, Abrado - as his citizens call it - was subjected to a flood of criticism, because he underestimated the impact of the epidemic that has so far claimed the lives of a number of its citizens. About the injured.

Abrado justifies his confusing strategy by talking about his interest in keeping the economy in recession, exacerbated by the low oil price.

"For those who ask me to freeze everything, I remind you that some of us have a steady salary and that others earn their livelihood in the street," the president said last Thursday.

The author commented on this by saying that any comprehensive quarantine would effectively deprive many Mexicans who earn their living from working in the streets, pointing out that the informal sector in Mexico is very wide, as it represents about 56% of the working population and is deprived of any social protection, and these may lead them Despair to the explosion.

In the face of this presidential behavior, the writer explains that the population decided to take the initiative to confront Corona, the education sector did not wait for a political decision to close schools and universities, as the football championship suspended and most theaters stopped working, and the number of companies that closed their doors increased, and even those that I resisted that looked hugely empty.

In light of the pressure and criticism directed against him, the president eventually began urging people to stay in their homes and talking about his plan that includes the army's participation in containing the epidemic, but he stressed that he had not yet decided to take restrictive measures, saying "I will tell you when to stop leaving."