South American Nations Adopt Different COVID-19 Stategies, With Different Results

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2. In Argentina's case, RW media WANTS this to become a crisis, in order to undermine the current gov't

Fernández enjoys 60% approval overall - and 80% approval on his handling of the Covid crisis.

He's made a lot of good calls - such as expanding ICU capacity (3,600 new beds in just 4 months - in a bankrupt country). But a reluctance to enforce social distancing has contributed to Covid's getting out of control since June.

And where? Mostly in the metro Buenos Aires area - where right-wing cable news has the widest reach.

Opponents see the spreading of the Covid as the best way to undermine him.

They've been doing nothing but egging people on to "defy this tyranny - this longest quarantine on earth" (not true) and to "go out and live your lives" - even after restrictions were eased.

And the egg'em and spread'em tactic is working. Guess what happened after this:

New daily cases are now nearly at U.S. levels (on a per capita basis).

As always, thanks for keeping up with so much, Judi. Have a restful Sunday.