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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJacksonville Choice Sums Up Trump's Pandemic Policy
Political Wire (Paywall)President Trump pushed the Republican party to move their convention from Charlotte after that city insisted on maintaining face mask and social distancing rules, things that Trump thought wouldnt look very good on television.
So he eagerly moved his acceptance speech to Jacksonville because that city had no such health provisions.
But as Philip Bump points out, even if you dont know what happened, you know what happened. Charlottes efforts to contain the virus meant a smaller surge in new cases. Jacksonvilles failure to do so had the opposite effect.
This chart was entirely predictable:
So naturally, just a couple weeks after Trump moved the GOP convention, Jacksonville did an about-face and issued the same face mask mandate that made Charlotte such an unattractive city for Trump.
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Jacksonville Choice Sums Up Trump's Pandemic Policy (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jul 2020
OP
Will someone please rope this fool in?? My god..we cannot afford more new cases!!
Thekaspervote
Jul 2020
#1
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)1. Will someone please rope this fool in?? My god..we cannot afford more new cases!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Every sane state needs to implement a travel ban...against Trump.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)4. +1
sop
(9,946 posts)5. It's like watching the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse come riding into town.
Bringing pestilence, war, famine, and death.
Initech
(99,915 posts)3. He is the Super Spreader in chief!