'I shouldn't be here': Wisconsin bar owner in ICU with COVID-19 blames Trump...

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'I shouldn't be here': Wisconsin bar owner in ICU with COVID-19 blames Trump for out-of-control pandemic
Molly Beck
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


Mark Schultz has been hit on both sides of this pandemic.

For six months it was his Oshkosh, Wisconsin, bar and restaurant, both of which are closed for now after being hammered under state coronavirus restrictions.

Now it is Schultz himself, infected with COVID-19, lying in a hospital intensive care unit, laboring to breathe, unsure of when – or whether – he'll go home.

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At Oblio's, Schultz said he has three simple rules before people can belly up to the bar: Don't talk about politics. Don't talk about religion. And don't talk about someone's wife.

Now, as he receives oxygen from a machine, Schultz says he has been pushed to break that first rule by President Donald Trump.

"I always had to keep my politics to myself, but from where I'm sitting now? Those days are over," Schultz said.

"I shouldn't be here."

Trump, he said, should have been more upfront with the public from the beginning about the dangers of the coronavirus, should have acted quicker and promoted wearing face masks. If he had, Schultz believes, maybe the pandemic would not have struck his community so hard, might not have wound up at his door.

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