Add to that, Nevada’s official statistics present that the state at present has a disturbing Covid-19 test positivity rate of 9.5%, with cases growing at a fee of 0.4% — 299 new circumstances per day — for the latest seven-day interval recorded by Nevada Well being Response. (New York, against this, has now gone greater than a month with a positivity fee of less than 1%.) The World Well being Group has suggested states to not re-open till the positivity fee is at 5% or lower for 14 days.
However none of that apparently issues to Trump — so long as he will get the optics of a giant crowd that he believes seems good for his 2020 marketing campaign. That helps explains why after the rally, Trump tweeted photos from the occasion that featured individuals not sporting masks crammed collectively. Trump even shared a video clip of his followers operating from a gated space to the entrance of the stage that appeared like the beginning of a Covid-themed recreation present. I used to be anticipating to listen to Trump entice his supporters by yelling out, “First 25 to the stage get a month’s provide of hydroxychloroquine!”
On the rally, Trump lied to his supporters that the explanation it was being held within the city of Minden and never on the Reno airport, the place it was initially scheduled, was as a result of the Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, “tried to cease us.”
“We didn’t,” tweeted Meghin Delaney, Sisolak’s press secretary. In actuality, the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal reported that it was truly Reno airport officers who prevented the rally there, citing the 50-person restriction on crowd gatherings.
Earlier within the week, Trump held a rally in North Carolina that once more ignored statewide social distancing mandates of limiting gatherings to 50 individuals and sporting masks. These measures are in place for one purpose: To avoid wasting lives from a lethal pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 193,000 Americans since March. Within the final week alone, with deaths averaging 850 a day, a whole bunch extra Individuals died from Covid-19 than throughout the attacks on 9/11.
Positive, the Trump marketing campaign does tell the media, “Each attendee will get a temperature test previous to admission, be offered a masks they’re inspired to put on, and have entry to loads of hand sanitizers.” However pictures present masks should not being worn. If Trump actually wished to make sure the security of his supporters quite than feed his ego, he might merely inform them on the rally to placed on their masks and preserve a protected distance from one another. Trump isn’t bashful in the case of sharing his views on points that he is keen about.
Trump isn’t just exposing his supporters on the rally to the virus. He is additionally sending an alarming message to the nation that social distancing mandates could be ignored. That is past irresponsible, it borders on sinister on condition that Trump totally understands how simply transmittable and deadly this virus could possibly be. We now know that as early as February 7 Trump told Washington Post reporter Woodward, in a telephone name made public final week, that Covid-19 was extremely contagious because it could possibly be transmitted within the air and that it was 5 instances “extra lethal” than the flu.
Add to that, Trump have to be conscious that after his Tulsa marketing campaign rally in late June, there was a spike in Covid-19 circumstances within the Tulsa space that local health officials believed was linked to his occasion. Certainly, it was at this very rally former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain was seen not sporting a masks. Cain was recognized with Covid-19 not lengthy after and died from the virus weeks later. Whereas it is unclear if Cain contracted the virus on the Trump rally, it nonetheless ought to elevate alarm bells for Trump over that chance.
The underside line is that this: Trump will at all times do what’s finest for Trump. On this case it means holding massive marketing campaign rallies that violate Covid-19 security measures just because Trump believes that might assist him win reelection — even when it means extra of his supporters are uncovered to a virus that he is aware of is “deadly stuff.”
If Trump is not involved with whether or not his supporters get Covid-19, why would anybody consider he cares in regards to the 51% of Individuals who don’t support him getting sick? And even dying.
