"This Shouldn't Be Happening": Tulsa Health Officials Despair as the Trump Rally Rolls Into Town

[babylonsister]

“This Shouldn’t Be Happening”: Tulsa Health Officials Despair as the Trump Rally Rolls Into Town
The science is clear: The COVID-19 curve is nowhere near flat enough to justify a massive indoor rally. But the president’s show must go on, and red state governors must go along.
By Katherine Eban
June 19, 2020


As executive director of the health department in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bruce Dart has worked night and day alongside his staff to flatten the COVID-19 curve. “We started to trend downward,” he said. Hospitals got a breather and a chance to work on their “surge plans.”

But then, on June 10, with cases beginning to rise about six weeks into the governor’s aggressive effort to reopen the economy, Dart got almost unimaginably bad news: President Donald Trump was planning a massive political rally at the 19,000-seat BOK Center in Tulsa, essentially painting a viral bull’s-eye on the city. “It was all over Twitter,” said Dart, “and my marketing director brought it up.”

Helpless to stop the event, Dart now fears the worst. “I am personally extremely concerned not only for what is going to happen this weekend, but what we’re going to have to deal with two weeks from now,” he told Vanity Fair. “I think we’re in the potential for a perfect storm of disease transmission that Tulsa County does not need.” Calling the risks “horrific,” he added, “This could be a Beyoncé concert and I’d still feel the same way.”

On Tuesday, former vice president Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, went a step further, calling Trump’s plan for the rally “criminal endangerment” that was risking lives.

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[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Hah! Wait for it. Trump will stiff Tulsa's bill for rentals, police security, and other logistical

plans.

Watch what happens when Tulsa sends the bill and they get no response.

On top of that, look for another COVID-19 wave in about 2 weeks. Hospitals will have to foot the bill for those patients as well.

Hmm... Two weeks. And when is the next Trump Death March Rally scheduled?

[LizBeth]

2. Also bumping up the number of people using hotels and restaurants.

[BComplex]

3. Yep. Out of towners.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. "criminal endangerment" that was risking lives. LOCK HIM UP!