Senior Trump official Marc Lotter warns people at 'high risk' for coronavirus not to attend rally

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Senior Trump official warns people at 'high risk' for coronavirus not to attend rally

Marc Lotter says some people should stay away, but defends Trump’s decision to hold indoor rally during pandemic

Oliver Laughland in Tulsa, Oklahoma
@oliverlaughland
Published on Thu 18 Jun 2020 19.26 BST

A senior Trump campaign official has advised those at high risk of severe illness from Covid-19 not to attend the president’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma as coronavirus cases in the state continue to spike and tensions in the city rise before the event on Saturday.

Marc Lotter, the Trump campaign’s director of strategic communications, told the Guardian he would encourage those in “high risk categories” to watch the rally on television, but defended the president’s decision to hold a mass indoor rally during the pandemic, despite local health officials urging the campaign to reschedule.

“I personally would encourage anyone who might find themselves to be in one of the high risk categories and encourage them not to come. Watch it on television, protect yourself, protect your family if someone in your direct family has those kinds of high risk factors,” Lotter said in an interview outside Tulsa’s 19,000 capacity BOK arena, where Trump is due to appear.

The CDC lists high-risk individuals as those over the age of 65, people living in care facilities or nursing homes, and those with certain underlying health conditions.

The Trump campaign’s public event invitation offers no guidance on those at greater risk, and requires attendees to agree to a waiver acknowledging they will not hold the campaign and other entities liable should they contract the virus.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/trump-rally-coronavirus-fears-high-risk

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Define a "high risk" MAGAt

Terminal stupidity?

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Stupicidal.

[Corgigal]

2. Your going to kill people,

because Trump misses people clapping for him. You’re killing your own voters, and we’re going to get those numbers by tracing. You’re going to try to hide it, but we will get the names of your coliseum clappers, and watch hospital admissions.

You’re too much of cowards to get the old silly man to listen to you. You also won’t quit, because only you can handle this guy. Now, you’re going to allow him to kill anti science people.

We will blame you. Fuck you Marc Lotter.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. And since Trump has said that people wear masks to make him look bad,

my guess is that very few will be seen. Those who attend are going to be yelling and breathing each other's droplets for hours.

[Andy823]

5. Most of trumps crowds

are 65 or older, look like they have all kinds of health problems. The trump team also knows that the die hard trumpers will come no matter what. That's why they have sign a contract so they can't sue trump if they do get sick!

[Freethinker65]

6. Like morbidly obese physically unfit seniors? That is Trump's rally base.