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No, Trump Rallies Are Not Covid-19 'Superspreader' Events
PJ Media ^ | 10/19/2020 | Rick Moran

Posted on 10/19/2020 9:23:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Every Trump rally where thousands of enthusiastic supporters come to see him ends up as just another way to get hysterical about the coronavirus pandemic.

Not only are many of the rally attendees maskless, but they don’t practice social distancing either. Obviously, this means that hundreds, maybe thousands of rallygoers will test positive for the coronavirus while infecting hundreds or thousands of others.

In fact, according to a Daily Caller investigation, health authorities in many areas where Trump has recently held rallies say there is no direct evidence that the rallies resulted in an increase in positive tests.

Speculation from some observers before and during the events raised alarms that they could worsen the ongoing pandemic. But a combination of publicly available statistics on the spread of Coronavirus and analysis from public health experts concludes that the president’s campaign rallies cannot be tied to spikes in Covid-19 infections in their surrounding areas, if cases in the area even increased, which not all did.

Does this mean that the media doesn’t know what they’re talking about when they write stories about the “maskless” rallies? Why yes. Yes, it does.

In fact, the “maskless” rally criticism presupposes that when you get a lot of people together, you have a “superspreader” event. If true, how do you explain this?

Thousands gathered indoors in Oklahoma’s second-largest city to welcome the president, and statewide new cases were 32% higher one week after the rally. However, cases in Tulsa County actually trended downward during the two weeks after the rally, and a spokesman with the Oklahoma State Department of Health told the Daily Caller


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; covid19; superspreader; trumprallies

1 posted on 10/19/2020 9:23:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“’Superspreader’ Events” Can’t help but think of a comma-lah tryst with mayor willie. No need to eat after that thought.


3 posted on 10/19/2020 9:26:53 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


4 posted on 10/19/2020 9:44:33 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rick Moran is noted for basing his reporting on another’s expertise, in this case Daily Caller.

It certainly doesn’t take much competence to string together a bunch of quotes from another article.

I call Rick Mr. Bookend.

Wonder if he has ever written an article based 100% on his own reporting? Maybe he doesn’t know how to?


5 posted on 10/19/2020 10:31:34 AM PDT by upchuck (Congressional subpoenas. Congressional hearings. Criminal referrals to the FBI. It's all just Kabuki)
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To: upchuck

Ok, what about the Daily Caller? How reliable are they?


6 posted on 10/19/2020 10:42:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

My gripe was not about Daily Caller. Whether or not they are reliable is beside the point.

Rick Moran typically uses other articles as the basis of his article. That’s the gripe. Instead of ripping off other’s articles, he should come up with something original himself.


7 posted on 10/19/2020 11:57:40 AM PDT by upchuck (Congressional subpoenas. Congressional hearings. Criminal referrals to the FBI. It's all just Kabuki)
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