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Two reasons, they weren’t cognizant about Juneteenth/1921 being on the same weekend (now we’re in a totally different world after Minneapolis), and two months ago Oklahoma looked like one of the safest places in the country, and a friendly audience receptive to his message. Not only that, but it’s going to make it even more challenging to schedule the next big rally, especially if there’s any type of outbreak in the next 2-3 weeks. Puts the August conventions in even more jeopardy. Brad Pascale likely to be out as campaign manager in the next 7-10 days.

Okay, I deleted it. But earlier in this thread there was a discussion of Confederate statues...which has now morphed in the US and around the world to something much bigger, stretching from Churchill to Francis Scott Key to Washington and Jefferson. So where does that end and begin? As a Civil War buff and history teacher, I consider myself as sympathetic as anyone from a historical sense despite being a “Yankee from up north in Iowa.” Antifa, Confederate statues or the USPS, whatever the topic now, there’s Inevitably going to be a political spin. If I even attempted to defend Robert E. Lee (because of brilliant military/strategic expertise or “sense of honor” to not turn against his native Virginia) , it would be an impossible case to make in an American public high school today. Maybe it would get one fired or at least suspended.

Probably 7-9,000 people, just an educated guess. Just one section in the upper deck, the first level is packed around half the stadium and then maybe half the standing area on the floor of the stadium. Very, very few masks being worn. Certainly no protesters preventing anyone from entering, then there is a number in the hundreds just enjoying being outside along with the 200 or so counter protestors somehow stopping 100,000 from entering... Campaign will undoubtedly claim 12-15,000.

Well, we’re already seeing multiple cases of top NCAA FB teams with 15-25 team members testing positive...the virus doesn’t care about your politics, or if you trust science over gut instincts and intuition or not. It simply looks for available/vulnerable hosts to infect. If we’re not following any of the CDC guidelines or attempting to enforce them, then why do they exist, exactly? Washington State was perhaps the national model of how to handle this in the beginning. Now Yakima hospitals are being overrun, months later. https://www.yakimaherald.com/special_projects/coronavirus/yakima-county-hospitals-exceed-capacity-report-critical-staffing-shortages/article_9e24ab98-dd28-5bd4-a829-8dce719f251d.html

Planned massive outdoor pre-rally with Trump and VP Pence, with an expected crowd of 40,000-100,000 just canceled after only a couple dozen show up. ”There’s still lots of space indoors at the BOK Center, come on down!” MSM and intimidating protestors scared everyone away, right? Too hot? If all the mainstream media is fake news and a hoax, why or how would that impact the crowds?

Breaking news: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas USPS offices running low on funds, don’t have necessary budget to accommodate mail-in balloting. President irate news of six campaign advance team staffers testing positive for Covid-19 is getting too much attention, as well as the latest Friday Night Massacre of Berman from the Southern District of NY/NJ...”Super Spreader-in-Chief.“ https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/may/30/coronavirus-cases-at-meat-plants-rise-d/ https://www.provisioneronline.com/articles/107869-top-100-meat-and-poultry-processors-holding-pattern https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/22993-covid-19-meat-plant-map It’s the perfect storm, you have the massive Tyson and George’s poultry and turkey processing plants 100 miles away in Springdale, AR, by my count at least six beef/meat processing plants in the Tulsa/NE Oklahoma region, another massive cluster near Springfield, MO, and then again in KS/NE. I still can’t quite figure out how to embed that national map at meatpoultry.com, but it almost looks like Tulsa is near the epicenter of all the Covid-19 beef/pork/chicken processing plant problems...essentially, a corridor from there to Springdale to Springfield to KC and up into Nebraska and Iowa. “The companies are reacting too late," Licolli said. "For them, it's more important to keep their production rather than protections for these workers." About 50 protesters stood on the sidewalk outside of the Tyson plant on Berry Street and held up signs reading "People > chicken," "protect = respect" and more. Dr. Nate Smith, state health secretary, said Thursday during Gov. Asa Hutchinson's daily news briefing covid-19 cases are rapidly increasing in the Latino community, particularly in Northwest Arkansas. This week the total number of cases from people employed by the poultry industry climbed to 415, the Health Department reported Friday. That's up 37% from Monday when there were 301 cases. All eight of the businesses in the latest covid-19 job cluster report process chicken or turkey. At least 69% of the cases are Hispanic or Latino, according to the report.

Sayonara to the NBA playoffs in Orlando, trips to Disney World and “extended” extended Spring Training.

Might have actually worked in SEC, ACC and Big 12 territory....

The risks to the rally were underscored by an extraordinary series of events that began Thursday night when Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum set a three-night curfew, citing the expected crowds of more than 100,000, the planned protests, and the civil unrest that has already erupted in the city and around the nation. The tighter security meant Trump supporters lined up for the rally had to be moved further away from the 19,000-seat BOK Center. Some supporters had been camping out for days to get a good spot and the curfew raised questions about whether they would be able to remain near the site overnight Friday. By Friday afternoon, the three-night curfew was lifted after Bynum and Trump spoke by phone – a decision that was announced first by Trump on Twitter and then confirmed by the mayor. Coronavirus: Health experts fear Trump's rally could turn into a 'super spreader' event Trump is expected to touch down in the Sooner State – one of the reddest states in the nation – around dinnertime and host his first rally since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic. As he strolls onto the stage in the BOK Center, with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” pouring through the speakers, he’ll face a dramatically different political scene than the one he was navigating three months ago. https://www.yahoo.com/news/turning-point-massive-risk-trump-080009674.html

23 on the Clemson Tigers with Covid-19 now

Therein lies the problem with society in general today. Nobody has the patience to actually read a real investigative piece anymore. It’s all sound bites. The attention span of teenagers is falling by the year. When I was growing up, the majority of our parents subscribed to either Time, Newsweek or US News & World Report. WSJ, Forbes/Fortune or New York Times/WaPo for the “elites” of Iowa. Maybe the Christian Science Monitor. At any rate, those first three mainstream publications aimed at the middle 65% of Americans on the political spectrum simply do not exist anymore. They are instead People, US Weekly, Reader’s Digest/TV Guide (older Americans) and The National Inquirer. There’s absolutely no interest in policy discussions or being wonkish. The polarization has practically forced everyone to choose sides. If you read a Rick Newman article at Yahoo Finance, you only need to go the comments section, and they always follow a reliable pattern.

Last ride for the General Lee? 'Dukes of Hazzard' streaming future uncertain as Confederate symbols face renewed scrutiny. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/last-ride-for-the-dukes-of-hazzard-shows-streaming-future-uncertain-as-confederate-symbols-face-renewed-scrutiny-150059550.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0965-6 According to this article, based on a Chinese study among the population infected the earliest with Covid-19, any immunity gained via antibodies may only last 2-3 months. Comparatively, the figure for SARS is 1 year and for MERS 34 months. If this initial research is correct, the theoretical principle of 70-80% 'herd immunity' is almost pointless, and even a vaccine may be of limited short term value, since the purpose of a vaccine is to have the body’s own immune system produce antibodies. The negative implications of this early research are staggering...not just for the 2020 baseball season. Florida and Arizona are particularly worrying, Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tells Yahoo Life. He describes these areas as “new hot spots.” As of Friday morning, data from COVID Exit Strategy found that Florida had a 141 percent increase in positive cases over the past 14 days. At the same time, there is low availability of intensive care unit beds in the state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other public health officials in the state have repeatedly come under fire for the handling of the state’s response to the virus, both for delayed stay-at-home ordersand reopening beaches in April. In Arizona, where a stay-at-home order expired a month ago, cases have also increased 108 percent over the past 14 days, according to COVID Exit Strategy data. ICU bed use and ER visits have hit new highs for the state because of COVID-19 cases, according to the Arizona Republic.

Sure, but a headline with “new opportunities” or mentioning PE, what percentage of readers would even understand to click on it? 5%? 10%? I doubt the writer even had the opportunity to choose the headline, there was probably an editor that decided. Yahoo has been like this for years. 80-85% of the articles are just collected from other sites and redistributed there. Most of their writing staff got laid off years ago. It’s simply a matter of profitability, right? It has shifted from newspaper layoffs to online aggregators laying off staff and that pressure will increase due to slashed advertising budgets. Subscriptions to quality sites like The Atlantic are going up, but they’re still cutting and cutting staffers. The only window of opportunity is slashing budgets for office space leasing by almost everyone working at home, but the crash in that market creates yet another array of problems, right?

Waves are for countries that flatten curves into waves. America teaches us what happens when we don’t flatten a curve. It just turns into a tsunami.

If they left “Trump administration” out of the headline, it probably would have generated negligible page views, except for those in the financial planning and investments field. All about the clicks. That said, who exactly should we say is responsible?

Trump administration move could add 'significant risks' to retirement accounts https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-administration-move-could-add-significant-risks-to-retirement-accounts-115443201.html

Well, since the Germans have been way ahead on this, why aren’t we following their Bundesliga or even the English Premier League protocols?...inarguably more direct physical contact in that sport.

Baghdad Bob or Comical/Chemical Ali https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/health/teen-death-coronavirus-wellness-partner/index.html Another teenager died from COVID-19

Still can’t actually believe 19,000 Americans are going to fill an arena with no mask requirement to enter...in the same exact state out of 50 that has had the highest growth rate in Covid cases. It’s beyond even idiocracy or similar derogative phrases like American Idiot. Seems like every other week, we experience yet another surreal moment that doesn’t even seem possible in the America we all grew up in.

The campaign will be distributing face masks and hand sanitizer at the event but won’t require that the face masks be worn. The temperature of everyone entering will be taken, according to the campaign. In advance of Saturday’s rally, Gov. Kevin Stitt was in Washington on Thursday for a televised discussion with Trump and two Oklahoma business owners — hotelier Pete Patel and restaurant owner Lori Burson. Stitt told Trump that Oklahomans are excited for his upcoming visit, saying over a million people have requested tickets for the event. Stitt said the rally will be “amazing.” “Oklahoma is ready for your visit,” Stitt said. “It is going to be safe. We are really, really excited.” “One of the reasons we chose your state, Kevin, is you have done so well with the COVID,” Trump said. “You have handled it incredibly well.” Stitt thanked Trump for his administration’s support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neither mentioned that new cases in the state and in Tulsa County have skyrocketed in recent days. https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/whirlwind-of-activity-surrounding-trump-visit-descends-on-tulsa/article_a7cf501f-20b9-5952-bffb-8c1b31648571.html

Even as we now have official permission starting this past weekend to “unmask,” 90-95% of Wuhan is still wearing them outside despite growing heat and humidity (we’re a lot like Augusta, GA if you’ve been there in the summertime, a blast furnace with 85-90% humidity.) Feel for you. We’ve got three weeks of online classes, only 37 days of actual summer holiday...and now Beijing outbreak is making it nearly impossible to travel long distances, even inside the country. Starting to lose many of our teachers still trapped in limbo unable to return to China due to ban on foreigners entering. To top it off, they cut teacher pay for local teachers to 30% for five months...now they have been forced to come into school for office hours (820-440) from June 15th through August 15th despite no actual classes, online or offline, available for them to teach on the schedule. Some are having to teach 9th graders on Saturdays as well (Grade 6/9/12 are only students who returned in the entire province), as students have had national exams to enter 10th grade pushed back from early June all the way to July 20th. It’s crazy. And HR director is astounded, wonders why nobody wants to come work in Wuhan!!!

Stop hyping up the second wave, MSM! (The first one actually isn’t going to pass until September or October.) Mike Pence accuses the media of 'fear mongering' over a second wave of Covid-19 in a misleading Wall Street Journal op-ed that praises Trump.

Oklahoma judge refuses to require social distancing at Trump’s Tulsa rally amid coronavirus concerns Perhaps the most shocking news of the year! Coming up next after the commercial break, OK judge involved in massive civil lawsuit... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oklahoma-judge-refuses-to-require-social-distancing-at-trumps-tulsa-rally-amid-coronavirus-concerns

Texas, Arizona are getting clobbered and soon Oklahoma/Arkansas...parts of southern KS and SW Missouri.