United States President Donald Trump walks with First Lady Melania Trump at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29, 2020. (REUTERS / Carlos Barria)
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US President Donald Trump, who tested positive for coronavirus, has just one lesson for everyone: wear a mask.
On Friday, Trump took to Twitter to announce that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for coronavirus and were now in quarantine. This comes after one of Trump’s closest aides, Hope Hicks, tested positive for coronavirus. Hicks was traveling with Trump on Air Force One on Tuesday to fly to Cleveland for the first presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden.
Hicks was not wearing a mask as he headed to Ohio for the debate. Here’s a tweet from an NBC reporter showing Hicks getting on Air Force One, without covering his face.
Not just Hicks, Trump himself has had a pretty strained relationship with masks. In the initial phases of the pandemic, when coronavirus cases in the United States were on a steep upward curve, Trump was repeatedly seen without a mask. In fact, he has been known to poke fun at those who wear masks, almost as if it were a sign of weakness.
In May 2020, Trump mocked a White House correspondent for wearing a mask at a press conference. Yes, that really happened.
During the press conference, Trump was answering questions from reporters when a Reuters correspondent, Jeff Mason, asked him about former Vice President Joe Biden’s decision to wear a mask publicly at an event a few days ago. To Mason’s questions, Trump mockingly asked and asked him to remove his mask because he couldn’t hear the questions. Mason replied that he would rather have it on. At this point, Trump accused Mason of being “politically correct”, referring to Biden with a mask.
In fact, the first time that Trump was seen masked in public was in July, when the pandemic was already at its peak and had infected more than 3.2 million people in the United States. He wore a mask while visiting a military hospital in the Washington suburbs.
No one knows exactly what Trump’s problem with face masks is. Earlier that month, he had said that he refused to wear a mask, despite warnings from the CDC, because it would send the “wrong message” and make him look ridiculous and weak.
In fact, in the US presidential debate, Trump mocked Biden for wearing a mask. Perhaps Trump needed a reminder that we are in the midst of a global pandemic, the same pandemic that has now affected his family as well.
Why Trump thinks it is something we do not understand, since the CDC (Center for Disease Control) has repeatedly recommended a mask in places where social distancing is difficult. As debates. Or inside Air Force One.
Both the World Health Organization and the CDC have repeatedly warned people around the world about the dangers of going out without a mask. There is still no vaccine for the coronavirus. There is also no magic medicine that can cure Covid-19 or keep you safe from the virus. The only thing that can really protect you from getting infected is washing your hands regularly, disinfecting them, and wearing a mask. It really is quite simple.
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