GOP senator defends Trump's Tulsa rally as health official warns it's a 'huge risk factor'

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Besieged by criticism for scheduling a campaign rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, an observance of the end of U.S. slavery in a city notable for a historic outburst of racist violence, President Trump on Friday relented and bumped the event back by one day.

But Tulsa’s top health official is urging the campaign to again postpone — not over politics but over public health. As novel coronavirus cases have set new daily records in Oklahoma in recent days, Tulsa Health Department Director Bruce Dart warned over the weekend that a rally expected to draw more than 19,000 Trump supporters could ignite a bigger crisis.

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A Republican senator from Oklahoma took to the air on Sunday to argue that the rally will be safe, although the Trump campaign has asked attendees to sign waivers promising not to sue if they get the virus that causes the disease covid-19.

“Everyone needs to take responsibility for their own health,” Sen. James Lankford said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that he intends to go to the rally.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-defends-trumps-tulsa-rally-as-health-official-warns-its-a-huge-risk-factor-amid-coronavirus-spike/ar-BB15ufgC?li=BBnb7Kz

The Masque of the Red Hat Death.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I'm sure the former camp counselor knows best.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Will Lankford take responsibility for his health by wearing a mask?

And keeping his distance? Probably not.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. You know, if the MAGATs were only risking their own lives, I would say "go for it".

The fact is, however, that if they contract COVID19 from that rally, they will likely infect many more people because they will go back to their hometowns, mingle freely with others and most of them won't wear a mask when in public.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. They will endanger their children's lives.

That should make any parent give the rally wide berth, especially if both parents could attend and die, and their children end up as orphans.

[Freethinker65]

5. Means nothing unless Lankford mingles directly with the crowd of Trump supporters.