Oklahoma officials worry

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BY NICOLE SGANGA, MUSADIQ BIDAR AND ELEANOR WATSON
JUNE 17, 2020 / 5:29 PM / CBS NEWS

... While Trump supporters lined up with their lawn chairs and umbrellas outside the BOK Center in Tulsa, the city's Republican mayor said ... "I would love for some other city to have tried this first" ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-officials-worry-about-trumps-rally-as-tulsa-county-covid-infections-rise-to-record-levels/

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1. Unbelievably reckless

Eliza Relman 4 hours ago

Hundreds of Oklahoma healthcare professionals have signed a letter urging the mayor of Tulsa to cancel President Donald Trump's massive indoor campaign rally on Saturday over concerns that the gathering of tens of thousands will provoke a surge in coronavirus infections.

Dr. Jabraan Pasha, an internal-medicine physician at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Tulsa, wrote the letter and passed it around to colleagues as Oklahoma's COVID-19 infections have spiked in the wake of the state's reopening.

"Allowing our city to be one of the first places in the world to host an indoor gathering of this magnitude is not a political matter, it is a public health matter," the letter said. "As our city and state COVID-19 numbers climb at a rate previously unseen, it is unthinkable that this is seen as a logical choice" ..

Dr. Monica Saenz, an intensive-care physician at Tulsa's St. John Medical Center, wrote ... "We simply don't have the capacity to handle the number of people who will be infected because of this weekend's activities," Saenz added. "Please make the right decision. Say NO to Trump's rally" ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-of-oklahoma-nurses-and-doctors-urge-mayor-to-cancel-trumps-tulsa-rally-2020-6

[ace3csusm]

2. Then shut it down or stop complaining its your town...Take responsibility for you community

Cause Trump won't this will fall back on you ...

[Caliman73]

12. Seriously!

What kind of cowardly response is that. Trump does not give a single shit about ANYONE in Tulsa. He could not care less about Tulsa, yet these cowards are like, "Well I guess its okay, I just wish...." Trump is going to come in, cause major security and public health, AND he is going to stiff you for the bill.

And you are just going to let him because....?

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3. An extraordinarily dangerous move

Published 3 hours ago
Updated 2 hours ago
FOX TV Digital Team

... Dr. Ashish Jha, director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute, called the upcoming Trump rally “an extraordinarily dangerous move for the people participating and the people who may know them and love them and see them afterward." Trump supporters coming from neighboring cities and states could carry the virus back home, Jha said. "I’d feel the same way if Joe Biden were holding a rally.”

Tulsa officials have also expressed grave disapproval of the event despite apparent excitement from Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, who encouraged the president on Monday to consider a larger outdoor venue to accommodate more attendees.

Dr. Bruce Dart, the executive director of the Tulsa Health Department, told the New York Times on Tuesday that the rally is “the perfect storm of potential over-the-top disease transmission” ...

https://www.fox13news.com/news/an-extraordinarily-dangerous-move-tulsa-officials-health-experts-urge-trump-to-reconsider-rally

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4. Coronavirus cases skyrocket in Tulsa

|Jun 17, 2020, 03:12pm EDT
Nicholas Reimann
Forbes Staff

When President Donald Trump holds his first rally since the coronavirus pandemic swept across the U.S. this Saturday, he will be doing so in one of the nation’s new coronavirus hotspots — Tulsa, Oklahoma — where the 7-day average of new cases has spiked over 400% this month, and Wednesday brought a record number of new cases ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/06/17/coronavirus-cases-skyrocketing-in-tulsa-days-before-trump-rally/#6be0f74c60ce

[underpants]

11. I'm sure that's because of all the protests

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18. "It's a hoax! And it's China's fault. Finally we have an excuse not to enforce environmental laws!

Grandma should be willing to die for the good of the economy! Did I mention it's a hoax? Take hydroxychloroquine! That was a nasty question. And it's Mexico's fault! I blame the World Health Organization! North Carolina hasn't promised we won't have to wear masks, so we're moving to Jacksonville! Testing causes it! You're a nasty person. We have masks for everyone in Tulsa! It will miraculously just go away! That German company should give us exclusive rights to their vaccine, once they have a vaccine! It's a hoax! It's Obama's fault! All your personal protective equipment belongs to Jared! Our response has been perfect!"

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19. Great summary

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5. A record increase

Shira Feder 5 hours ago

... After Vice President Mike Pence announced on Monday that the number of cases in Oklahoma "has declined precipitously," the government saw a 3% spike in cases over 24 hours, with 259 new cases as of Wednesday.

The state has seen a total of 1,146 hospitalizations and 364 deaths in the state, making it an ill-advised place to crowd thousands of people into an indoor room, because research shows indoor spaces are more dangerous than outdoors spaces ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/oklahoma-reports-spike-in-coronavirus-cases-before-trumps-tulsa-rally-2020-6

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6. Oklahoma GOP Sen. Lankford urges elderly to avoid rally

By Marisa Schultz | Fox News

... “We’re advising people if they’re coming to the rally, if you have co-morbidities, if you are older, or you have other health issues -- don’t come,” Lankford told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

“Watch it on TV” ...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-lankford-tulsa-trump-rally-saturday

[ace3csusm]

13. But i though it was over ..cant have it both ways

[keithbvadu2]

14. But the Trumpsters said the seniors were old and going to die anyway.

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7. Pence says another venue is being considered

On “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, Vice President Mike Pence said another venue is being considered for President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., because of the overwhelming response to the event. After the interview, Ali Pardo, deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, clarified Pence’s remarks, saying the rally will remain at the BOK Center in Tulsa, but that the campaign is "also considering other areas adjacent to the arena to allow the president to address even more people" ...

https://news.yahoo.com/pence-says-another-venue-being-164855466.html

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8. Fauci wouldn't go near rally

BY ERIC LUTZ
JUNE 17, 2020

... Anthony Fauci, the government’s foremost infectious disease expert, made clear Tuesday that such a large gathering runs the risk of becoming a 20,000-seat coronavirus petri dish. Warning that the nation has not yet emerged from its first wave of infections and that big crowds pose a massive risk for infection, Fauci expressed anxiety about Donald Trump’s return rally in an interview with the Daily Beast on Tuesday. “Outside is better than inside, no crowd is better than crowd,” he said. And “crowd is better than big crowd.” When asked if he, personally, would attend such an event, he was unequivocal.

“Personally, I would not,” he said. “Of course not” ...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/dr-anthony-fauci-wouldnt-go-near-trumps-tulsa-rally-with-a-50-foot-pole

[ace3csusm]

16. I guess history is repeating itself ... will this be the new Tulsa Massacre

... I think i saw this movie already "Outbreak" but instead of Cedar Creek, California its Tulsa, OK. Didnt go so well for them

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9. Just wait until his campaign stiffs you on the bill

adding insult to injury.

But you guys know what you can do to prevent this in the future? VOTE DEMOCRATIC.

[MontanaMama]

10. You beat me to it.

The MF45 campaign pays for nothing. It is an organization built on grifting. Not only will Tulsa get stiffed...there will be hundreds if not thousands of new COVID cases for their hospitals to deal with. Clearly not a bunch of thinkers leading that community.

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20. And it won't just be the bill for police overtime or venue or vendors.

It'll be the costs of covid infections to Tulsa and where ever people came from.

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. I'm sorry but I have ZERO tolerance for totally ignorant people - I encourage them to go,

Hell, kiss each other if u feel the need.

[ace3csusm]

17. Agree...Go at it everyone going gets a free going away that

keeps giving after you leave the rally

[bobbieinok]

21. Mareo Johnson is a Tulsa minister.He founded BLM Tulsa, was good friend of cop-murdered T Crutcher

Johnson is quoted in the linked article.

There are several sources in Google for him. I used Tulsa People Oct 2019

ETA---There's much more info about Johnson at The Oklahoma Eagle Aug 2018

That long article, while discussing Johnson's life in Tulsa, has a great deal of info about the difficult lives of blacks living in North Tulsa

The newspaper The Oklahoma Eagle was started in 1936 by a man who bought the name,etc, of the Oklahoma Star. That was the paper for the Greenwood area. Its building was bombed and set on fire during the Massacre