in the west they said mosques start really protect you then they said they do and you've got to wear them whatever the case if it means i'm less likely of passing on something i'll do it a lot of other men so willing there are lots of selfish people in this world but what about when the masculinity in question here is that of the most powerful president in the world he. has this report. on election day the u.s. is battling another surge in corona virus cases the number of new delhi recorded cases has been reaching record highs. some i.c.u. units in the us are already approaching 90 percent of a capacity. well things are very very bad in the united states right now we are having some of the largest outbreaks that we've had. 910

months into this pandemic we are still largely not quite prepared the u.s. doesn't top the list when it comes to fatalities among those who tested positive for the disease but it's much higher up when it comes to the deaths per $100000.00 residents. so can what went wrong the links to the trumpet ministrations crisis management. critics say the white house hasn't had a proper sense of emergency especially at the beginning of the pandemic. will disappear. and by referring to some of the china virus the u.s. president may have been trying to shift responsibility away from his government damage control instead of disease control and treatment ideas without any scientific evidence. supposing we hit somebody with

a tremendous whether it's. just very powerful like. and i think you said. supposing it. can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way. i think you said you. think president trump also ignored medical advice to wear face masks for a long time instead he made fun of his democratic rival joe biden who wears mosques in public we will speak but you've got to be prepared to deal with future biden is soft and weak and too scared to be proud to be president let's face it. but many trump supporters admire the president's aggressive style and see him as a model of my old dominance. he is here this is why we're going to fight for this is why i have another 4 more

years because he is not as brainy. critics have pointed to trump's response to the pandemic like downplaying its dangers as an example of stereotypical masculine behavior. but that may have come at a high price for the u.s. with his approach potentially contributing to more than 230000 deaths in the country. as a professor of sociology at my state university why do you believe ma squaring has become such a gender issue especially in the u.s. . it's really interesting to see a bias become a political issue as well in every search we found and it's not just an gender issue it's all so partisan for example democrats and united states are more like you know republicans the where there is also if you the gender issue women are more likely to wear masks it's not just a desperate gender but it's about gender right when we asked matt how masculine and

they are the ones who say that they are very masculine are the most really refused to wear masks can you tell me what it's got to do with masculinity i mean not washing your hands after going to the bathroom is just disgusting and they're responsible. it is but we also know that matter less likely to wear where has it also wash your hands in a symbol of traditional best urine it is about softness it's about being. into the higher areas it's about health and he's especially and in most of the western world we do define traditional masculinity through good health in their reality so a virus can't really get you down where you need to get the higher. you want to even see it so are you the judicial masculine he really is very harmful. i guess it doesn't help either when the president compares manhood with invincibility

absolutely a traditional masculinity and i hear the masculine you are at play there as well so when we think about like that your president we've had presidents who were cowboys that wrote a horse is a clear book so this is actually one of these ideas of that go back to that and this is also something that really harms if you know candidates running for office so really it doesn't help that the president is a part of this as well but that if we just go back to the cowboys and the pioneers of the united states taking protective measures is a survival strategy yet mosque averse men prefer to risk what deaths from a virus that expose their vulnerability. absolutely private research actually shows that they are less likely to go to the doctor they're less likely to see got preventive medicine and even if they have. they're less likely to ask for help so their definition of health is not really

a very healthy but so soon to be need to fight it you know it is in their best interest an interest of their families and children to communities they're like let me see where and that's ok so we're very individualistic society and i think you know where you got that is really growing again is that i wear a mask to protect my community and other people in this case traditional mask it is a little bit more individualistic exactly all these men are invincible but they're also irresponsible i mean does this some have something to do with the fact that in many western nations the individual is more important in the community you get very different opinions in china absolutely i didn't even realize it was a big part of this and i'm not just wear the mask protect myself i am wearing protect you and in my community and this really goes against egos of individual this and that i could be a book. and this is a problem of our community that we sought to get everybody this is something i saw

myself ok we've been talking a lot about man what about the women who refuse to wear mosque i know if you are that. few of them are there going oh most of them research shows that are going to be more republican and then they also used the n signs a little is a menace trust us. among women so you know we do see that it's some of them are questioning science and they don't really believe the likelihood he will get the virus. yes but what about you on a personal level how does it annoy you when you walk down the street or i don't know where ever you are if you go and people are wearing moscow iran sticking to the rules i don't go to many places these days i'm. going to be you know going to these days but hash tag saying why do i need that might i do you i know. i've

enjoyed it because it lets me go out and be the new normal for me and my family and i'm like i like seeing people in my community wearing that mask and we hope to keep my resume. as my best because you know thank you very much for joining us today professor of sociology at montclair state university pleasure talking to you thank you so much you can get it. if you've got any questions on the coronavirus then feel free to write to us on how you treat channel science correspondent derrick williams will look into the. what impact on national health will reopening schools have at this stage of the pandemic . i've been sitting on this divisive question for a while to watch how things develop as kids in many countries in the northern hemisphere including my own returned to schools schools can act as super spreaders sites and with classrooms being closed areas where lots of kids

gather for extended periods of time you'd have expected to see spikes in cases within societies as a whole in the few weeks after they reopened a couple of months ago but a lot of current data indicates that didn't happen numbers of cases in both the u.s. and europe have of course risen dramatically since then but many experts believe that isn't down to reopen schools but to other factors a number of studies from different countries including ones that collect extensive contact tracing information they're painting the picture that although kids can of course catch the virus and of course they can give it to others they don't seem to be driving community transmission but instead of mostly reflected especially younger children who appear to be less likely to infect others than older kids but

all in all based on what we're seeing so far clusters seem to develop pretty rarely in schools that's at least one of the reasons why the german government for example has decided to leave them open even as spiraling numbers of infections across the country have now sent it back into a november lockdown that's closed many businesses how long schools will remain open here though is anyone's guess as a scientist. never tire of telling us we're in a dynamic situation. finally culture makers here in germany say the government is silencing the yacht's with its new coronavirus rules musicians around the country have posted silent protest videos against germany's you partial lockdown including the hamburg for the monic and conduct not at all this week germany shut down concert halls theaters museums and cinemas till

at least the end of the month while allowing retail stores and other businesses to stay open the culture sector was already looking at hundreds of millions of euros of losses after the last lock down. and been fizzling for any developments on the virus go to our website at www dot com slash code 19 it's just practice that mosque wearing see if it takes away my masculinity.

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