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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Apr 30, 2020, 07:57 PM Apr 2020

Infectious Disease Expert Spells Out Why Donald Trump's Rally Plan Is 'Not A Good Idea'

Infectious disease expert Dr. Harvey Fineberg on Wednesday explained why President Donald Trump’s hope to hold “massive” campaign rallies in the “not-too-distant future” during a pandemic is “not a good idea.”

Earlier in the day, Trump said he was unable to imagine a rally “where you have every fourth seat full” due to social distancing measures aimed at slowing the spread of the disease that has killed more than 60,000 people nationwide.

The president, whose response to the public health crisis has been widely criticized, also said he hoped to hold “good old-fashioned 25,000-person rallies” before the 2020 election.

“We have a tremendous pent-up demand. They love what we’re doing,” he said.

Fineberg, the former president of the National Academy of Medicine who has advised the Trump White House on the outbreak, told CNN’s Don Lemon that “this virus doesn’t care about American politics.”

“It doesn’t care whether you have a rally for political reasons, for a sporting event, for a choir that’s going to sing together, for a musical festivity,” Fineberg said. “It doesn’t make any difference.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/infectious-disease-expert-donald-trump-rally-coronavirus-081013677.html

Drumpf is Jonesing for a Nuremberg rally.

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Infectious Disease Expert Spells Out Why Donald Trump's Rally Plan Is 'Not A Good Idea' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
C-U-Z I-T I-S D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #1
First off, when does he ever get 25,000 people at a rally? PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2020 #2

PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. First off, when does he ever get 25,000 people at a rally?
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 09:21 PM
Apr 2020

But if the 600 or so that actually do show up want to stand shoulder to shoulder, I say, go for it.

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