More than a year after the outbreak of the Corona epidemic and the number of deaths due to infection exceeded two million and 784 thousand people around the world, many questions arise about the responsibility of the leaders of some countries for the fall of this large number of deaths due to the deadly epidemic and the tax that some people pay for the recklessness of their leaders.

Former US President Donald Trump's disastrous administration and the outbreak of the Corona pandemic formed two factors that combined to make the United States the worst country in terms of the number of deaths from the epidemic in the world, according to an article in the Washington Post about world leaders with the worst record of abuse. With the Corona pandemic crisis.

This was confirmed by Deborah Birx, coordinator of the task force tasked with combating the Corona virus in the Trump administration, in a statement she made to CNN, where she said that it was possible to prevent most of the deaths from the virus in the United States.

Despite this, the author of the article, Frida Gates - who is an international affairs analyst for the newspaper - believes that Trump may not be the worst leader in dealing with the outbreak of the epidemic, as some leaders' record during the crisis is much worse than his record.

"Love in the Time of Covid"

Regarding the worst response to the outbreak of the Corona epidemic, the author says that it is difficult to outpace the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega and his wife, who dealt with the news of the spread of the epidemic by inviting the people to take to the streets to attend a festive performance called "Love in the time of Covid-19," In reference to Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera.

The reckless move terrified human rights activists and scholars alike.

immunity!

There is also the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, where the health care system is on the verge of collapse, as the newspaper says, and where the absence of any efforts to curb the spread of the epidemic has caused new mutations of the virus to appear that now threaten other countries that are struggling to address it.

Bolsonaro claimed that Brazilians may have immunity to the virus he described as "little influenza" because they swim in sewage water without any discomfort from it.

Bolsonaro - who was infected with Corona - called on Brazilians to protest against the anti-epidemic measures, and joined the crowds of protesters against these measures on the streets of his country, and he used to shake hands with people cheerfully after coughing in his hands sometimes, although a few of those crowds were wearing masks.

With the spread of the epidemic throughout Brazil, and the death of thousands every day as a result of infection, Bolsonaro recently called on Brazilians to stop complaining about the epidemic.

Banning masks

In Turkmenistan - one of the former Soviet Central Asian republics - the government enacted a law prohibiting wearing masks, mentioning the word "corona" in the media and health-related information, and banning talking about the epidemic.

And the authorities there still claim that no cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in the country.

Healing with prayer

In Africa, the newspaper said that the President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, refused to talk about the global emergency due to the outbreak of the epidemic, and asked his people not to care about wearing masks or getting vaccinations against Corona, claiming that 3 days of prayer would eliminate the virus in his country.

Magufuli died this month, and the authorities announced that he had died of a heart attack, but informed sources in the Tanzanian opposition say that he died of infection with the Corona virus, which he had long underestimated, according to the Washington Post.