Breaking the Sound Barrier
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Weekly Column Thursday, July 16, 2020
** Don a Mask, Mr. Trump. It Won’t Kill You to Do It; It’ll Kill Thousands More If You Don’t
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
President Donald Trump broke the law Wednesday, landing at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport and greeting people without wearing a mask. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told MSNBC, “Donald Trump is actually violating the law, as he stands on our tarmac without a mask.” The Mayor, her husband and one of their children are at home, diagnosed with COVID-19. Trump’s dismissal of masks defines his misrule, driving the public health catastrophe raging across the United States.
Trump’s pandemic response has been cynical and deadly. While predicting that the pandemic will just “go away,” he has failed to set an example by simply wearing a mask. He and his partisan disciples, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Governor Greg Abbot and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, all proudly reject common sense steps that would save lives. Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp nullified local mask mandates by executive order late Wednesday. Thanks to Trump, America is now unquestionably number one in the world — number one, that is, in the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths, with no end in sight.
Trump publicly donned a mask last weekend at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, with a phalanx of masked military officers. It was an appropriate venue for Trump’s only public mask wearing to date. Major Walter Reed was an ... Read More → ([link removed])
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