The reason why Trump now wears a mask 1:43
Editor's Note: Camilo Egaña is Camilo's driver. The opinions expressed in this article are exclusive to the author. See more opinion articles on cnne.com/opinion.
(CNN Spanish) - Give the arm to twist is one of those phrases that accompany us all life, like our shadow.
Grandmother and teacher say it; the priest and the politician on duty, if he remembers the grandmother, the priest or the teacher.
The phrase refers to the one who does not want to give in his position and does not accept another idea different from his.
The origin would have to be found in ancient civilizations such as the Roman, the Greek or the Egyptian, whose people played to keep a pulse or pulse: you know, two boring and boring subjects, who placed opposite each other holding hands and , supported only on the elbow, one tries to knock down the other's hand.
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President Donald Trump has given his arm to twist and people should thank him.
Trump now claims that wearing face masks is "patriotic." There is no one more patriotic than me, your favorite president! ”He assures on Twitter.
Beyond the nationalist and talkative whiff, what counts is that, for the first time since the pandemic broke out, Trump seems to have understood that the mask saves lives.
He has done so after having laughed at his opponent, Joe Biden, for appearing in an act wearing a mask, and also for several journalists for attending his appearances with a set.
I do not know who is responsible for the fact that the president - apparently - has finally given up his arm and put aside his initial skepticism: himself or his advisers.
I am inclined to think that it has been the reality, pure and simple, that of the dead and that of the polls, that has forced Trump to accept the mask.
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Trump "does not stitch without thread" (there is another phrase) and I suppose he is able to intuit that people are fed up with his delusions, such as his disinfectant injections or the assertion that it was "a flu" just when in April more out of a hundred nations reported infections.
Or that ridiculous forecast made in February that the coronavirus "in April, supposedly, will die in the heat."
Neither Trump nor his seasoned supporters can deny that the United States is currently the country most affected by the pandemic: more than 3.8 million confirmed cases and more than 141,000 deaths.
And with several states in which the coronavirus is wary of its respects, almost out of control, while local politicians confront each other from their respective trenches.
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What does it mean that the president has decided to bet on the mask? Could it be that the White House has finally given its arm to twist and will present for the first time in almost seven months a clear and coherent strategy in the face of the pandemic?
"Everything happens for good in this, the best of all possible worlds." Candido believed that, that poor devil who starred in a book by Voltaire in the eighteenth century. The prelude to that which today is called "positive thinking". You see that "there is nothing new under the sun." Another phrase and no more, I leave it there.
Camilo begins, that speaking people understand each other.
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