Covid-19: Unity Is Strength, Mr. Trump – Not Your Sickening Nonsense

There are people who learn lessons not to make mistakes; there are people who learn lessons from their mistakes and there are people who won’t learn a lesson from their mistakes even if they are hit hard or their action almost caused their deaths. United States President Donald Trump is one such person who does not believe in learning lessons from mistakes.

- Ameen Izzadeen

He is reckless. He is not fit to lead because he does not seem to care about those whom he leads. Knowing well he was a walking time bomb or, more precisely, a bioterror bomb, he set a bad example by removing his masks and saying a few words to the journalists gathered in the White House lawn no sooner he arrived there from the state-run Walter Reed Medial Centre on Monday.

Imagine the amount of virus that came from his breath and latched on to various objects in the White House as he walked past without a mask. He came to the White House without being given a Covid-19 negative certificate by the medical team. He seems not to care about the fact that he could be a super spreader. It is not that he does not know what he was doing. In his book Rage, award-winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward says Trump knew the gravity of the pandemic but he lied to the people. “This is deadly stuff. You just breathe the air, and that’s how it’s passed,” Woodward quoted Trump as saying during an interview for the book.

By removing his masks in front of the camera this Monday despite the fact that more White House staff members were being afflicted with the virus, Trump was deliberately sending a wrong signal or showing a green light to the people for mass suicide, while shirking his responsibility to ensure public health. Even before he tested positive for Covid-19 last Thursday, White House public events and his campaign meetings, which get telecast worldwide, were not known to be strictly following the basic COVID guidelines such as physical distancing and wearing facemasks. What’s more, he even poked fun at his presidential race rival Joe Biden’s habit of wearing face masks, calling it an attempt to hide a plastic surgery scar.