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Living like there's no pandemic

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Living like there's no pandemic

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Just like the Tulsa rally, the RNC convention was another COVID 'super-spreader' event.

8/27/20
If the speakers at this week’s convention provided a portrait of Trump’s presidency that didn’t always align with reality, the images of mask-less crowds gathered without social distancing helped reinforce it. Combined with the repeated references to the coronavirus pandemic in the past tense — most notably by Trump’s chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow — the images protect a post-pandemic world, even as deaths mount. More than 3,600 Americans have died since the Republican National Convention started three days ago — more than died during the terror attacks on 9/11. Unlike most Americans, Trump has access to an extensive testing regime that his aides say renders him the “most tested man in America.” Anyone who comes into close proximity with him receives one; on Thursday, that includes a sizable number of the more than 1,000 invited guests on the South Lawn for his speech. The same was true, at least in part, for guests at the first lady’s speech in the Rose Garden and Vice President Mike Pence’s address at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. While neither the campaign nor the White House would provide specific details, at least some of the guests at those events were tested. Few wore masks.

The effect has been to provide Trump with the crowds he long desired for his convention. But it has also allowed him to project a reality that simply doesn’t exist for the rest of the country. Many states still ban large gatherings. Rapid testing is not available in many places, and wait times are long. The mask requirements that exist in many states would not permit the types of bare-faced events that Trump has convened. How effective that is in convincing Americans that Trump has handled the virus well isn’t clear. Even a number of Republican senators are opting not to attend Trump’s acceptance speech at the White House, despite most receiving invitations to join the audience on the South Lawn. Images of the President going about his life as normal can’t change that reality. "Here's what you have to understand about the nature of a pandemic: It's relentless. You can't stop it with a tweet. You can't create a distraction and hope it'll go away. It doesn't go away," Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said in a prebuttal to Trump’s speech earlier Thursday.

Despite the past three grueling months of 180,000+ dead, Trump is still hosting mask-less COVID super-spreader events.

He just doesn't care what happens to people. "I take no responsibility. None at all."
 
Living like there's no pandemic

GettyImages-1228231893.jpg

Just like the Tulsa rally, the RNC convention was another COVID 'super-spreader' event.



Despite the past three grueling months of 180,000+ dead, Trump is still hosting mask-less COVID super-spreader events.

He just doesn't care what happens to people. "I take no responsibility. None at all."

It's cool, the protestors do it. Protestors = President.

My opinion is no large gathering during a pandemic.
 
My opinion is no large gathering during a pandemic.

Not sure why this is such a hard concept to understand for folks. NO LARGE GATHERINGS, PERIOD. Why is it so hard?
 
No work, no church, no school, no political gatherings.


Riots are OK, though.
 
every event like that should be quarantined.
 
No work, no church, no school, no political gatherings. Riots are OK, though.

When you say riots are OK, does that mean a white cop murdering a black man is okay; or just plain old shoot him in the back seven ****ing times;

is it OK that a white vigilante with his weapon of war is greeted with open arms by far-right militia cops AFTER murdering two protesters?

Seen any black cops do this to white folks?
 
Around 182,000 Americans have been killed by COVID. More than 3x the number in Vietnam. 50 times the number on 9/11.

And Trumpists make mask wearing, social distancing, and the like into political issues. Trump or no Trump, the country is ****ed.
 
Living like there's nothing wrong in the world but the pandemic

That's lib news

Living like we are all supposed to just surrender to the virus

Have news coverage of little else

Close down everything!!

Let the virus control us

Let the virus rule !!

Please
 
Why aren't the malcontents happy about this gathering? If they are correct, every single person attending that event will die and be unable to vote.
 
Living like there's no pandemic

GettyImages-1228231893.jpg

Just like the Tulsa rally, the RNC convention was another COVID 'super-spreader' event.



Despite the past three grueling months of 180,000+ dead, Trump is still hosting mask-less COVID super-spreader events.

He just doesn't care what happens to people. "I take no responsibility. None at all."

I wonder if they had to sign a waiver, like Herman Cain did.
 
Around 182,000 Americans have been killed by COVID. More than 3x the number in Vietnam. 50 times the number on 9/11.

And Trumpists make mask wearing, social distancing, and the like into political issues. Trump or no Trump, the country is ****ed.
Republicans only kneel when it’s on the neck of black men. They spit on black women. Yet blacks won’t vote in the same % as whites.
 
Living like there's no pandemic

GettyImages-1228231893.jpg

Just like the Tulsa rally, the RNC convention was another COVID 'super-spreader' event.



Despite the past three grueling months of 180,000+ dead, Trump is still hosting mask-less COVID super-spreader events.

He just doesn't care what happens to people. "I take no responsibility. None at all."

But the riots are just fine. No biggy.
 
Republicans only kneel when it’s on the neck of black men. They spit on black women. Yet blacks won’t vote in the same % as whites.

Liberals have enslaved black folks in The United States.
 
Haven't you seen enough during this pandemic to know trump doesn't care.. the pandemic is.just an inconvenience to him.

He needed an audience to feed his ego
 
Living like there's nothing wrong in the world but the pandemic

That's lib news

Living like we are all supposed to just surrender to the virus

Have news coverage of little else

Close down everything!!

Let the virus control us

Let the virus rule !!

Please

Hyperbolic bilge
 
they're literally doing stuff to make the public think COVID is gone (which will then cause people to die).


deplorable isn't even close.
 
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