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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Oct 29, 2020, 07:37 PM Oct 2020

As virus surges, Trump rallies keep packing in thousands

WASHINGTON (AP) — There are no crowds at Disneyland, still shut down by the coronavirus. Fewer fans attended the World Series this year than at any time in the past century. Big concerts are canceled.

But it's a different story in Trumpland. Thousands of President Donald Trump's supporters regularly cram together at campaign rallies around the country — masks optional and social distancing frowned upon.

Trump rallies are among the nation's biggest events being held in defiance of crowd restrictions designed to stop the virus from spreading. This at a time when public health experts are advising people to think twice even about inviting many guests for Thanksgiving dinner.

“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are, when you have congregate settings where people are crowded together and virtually no one is wearing a mask, that’s a perfect setup to have an outbreak of acquisition and transmissibility,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, recently told Yahoo News. “It's a public health and scientific fact.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-virus-surges-trump-rallies-keep-packing-in-thousands/ar-BB1awehD?li=BBnb7Kz

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As virus surges, Trump rallies keep packing in thousands (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
The super-spreader in chief. Kath2 Oct 2020 #1
It should be Illegal. Cha Oct 2020 #2
Tonight application denied. In Minnesota only 250 at the airport...Ellison asked the venue for Demsrule86 Oct 2020 #3
I know "nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd" but I don't think these really help him underpants Oct 2020 #4
I believe they MFM008 Oct 2020 #5

Demsrule86

(68,691 posts)
3. Tonight application denied. In Minnesota only 250 at the airport...Ellison asked the venue for
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 07:41 PM
Oct 2020

their Covid plan and then it was cancelled.

underpants

(182,884 posts)
4. I know "nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd" but I don't think these really help him
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 07:43 PM
Oct 2020

Unless you are deep in the cult the crowds alone create some cringe but the lack of masks and distancing (like it or not we are all conditioned/doing it now) just looks odd to most people these days.

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