US President finally wears mask

American President Donald Trump  wore a face mask in public for the first time . Finally yielding to intense pressure to set a public health example as the covid 19 virus rampages across United States .

Given his intransigence for so many months, it was a small but significant gesture at a time when coronavirus cases are surging in the US and the President has failed to grasp the depth of the crisis or offer any coherent strategy to control the spread of the virus.

While he was willing to wear the mask to protect US service members, Trump made it clear this week that he viewed the hospital setting as a unique one -- clinging to his insistence that there is a "time and place" for masks amid a raging pandemic that has claimed that lives  of at least 134,815 Americans.