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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 10:42 AM Jul 2020

Jacksonville 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 wouldn’t 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 don’t know what happened, you know what happened. Charlotte’s efforts to contain the virus meant a smaller surge in new cases. Jacksonville’s 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
Every sane state needs to implement a travel ban...against Trump. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #2
+1 SoonerPride Jul 2020 #4
It's like watching the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse come riding into town. sop Jul 2020 #5
He is the Super Spreader in chief! Initech Jul 2020 #3

sop

(9,946 posts)
5. It's like watching the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse come riding into town.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 10:58 AM
Jul 2020

Bringing pestilence, war, famine, and death.

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