The "Rose Garden Massacre" is what Trump's own White House staff is calling it. Just using their language.
"A massacre is a killing, typically of multiple victims, considered morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre
Dallas-area Pastor Jack Graham opts not to follow CDC guidelines in wake of Rose Garden COVID exposure At least 10 people have tested positive for the coronavirus since the Sept. 26 Rose Garden event that the Plano megachurch pastor attended. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/pol...elines-in-wake-of-rose-garden-covid-exposure/ Dallas-area megachurch Pastor Jack Graham has declined to follow medical guidelines despite being in close contact with people who have since tested positive for the coronavirus after a Sept. 26 Rose Garden ceremony, telling his congregation, “I am ridiculously healthy.” The 70-year-old leader of Prestonwood Baptist Church attended the ceremony at the White House where President Donald Trump formally announced his nomination of conservative Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. Since the event, at least 10 attendees have tested positive for the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was photographed sitting directly behind Graham. Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif., was sitting next to Graham and also later tested positive. Graham, Laurie and Christie were among the vast majority of people not wearing a mask at the event. Robert Morris, the senior pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, was photographed at the Rose Garden ceremony without a mask. He was seated directly behind Notre Dame President John Jenkins, who was also unmasked and later tested positive for the virus. A spokesperson for the church declined to comment on if Morris had been tested for the virus and was quarantining following his exposure. A maskless Graham led his church’s service on Sunday and was photographed having a conversation with several worshippers afterward by a member of his congregation. Graham was not wearing a mask in the photo that was shared with The Dallas Morning News. (More at above url)
GOP county chair in Arkansas dies from COVID-19 – his committee hosted a maskless gathering last month https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/go...ittee-hosted-a-maskless-gathering-last-month/ The chairman of the Craighead County Republican Committee in Arkansas has died from complications while fighting the coronavirus, reported KAIT8 News. Steven Farmer’s GOP committee hosted a social gathering with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who just recovered from COVID-19, in mid-September. The Reagan Day event was photographed extensively, and it showed very few masks being worn and no social distancing. Farmer was admitted to the hospital on Sept. 18, just four days after the GOP event. He was put in the ICU and placed on a ventilator. It is unclear when Farmer was first diagnosed with COVID-19, and whether he attended The Reagan Day gathering. By Sept. 25, Farmer’s doctor told the family that he was “very worried that dad was not going to make it through this,” his daughter relayed. (more at above url including pictures of events)
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At least nine Minnesotans tested positive with Covid-19 in connection with a Trump campaign rally in September, sending two to the hospital, including one person who needed intensive care. The report from the Duluth News Tribune confirmed the information with the Minnesota Department of Health. The most recent data from the agency, updated as of Friday, reported 1,401 new coronavirus cases and 14 deaths. The daily counts of hospital admissions remains below the May peak, but has been trending upwards since September. The cases associated with the Trump rally were traced to his September 18 event in Bemidji, a town in north central Minnesota. No statistics are yet available from the president’s September 30th rally in Duluth the night of the last presidential debate, mere days before Trump announced he had Covid-19, but the department is continuing to monitor the situation.
Man Who Called COVID a ‘Hoax’ Feels Guilty After He and 13 Family Members Test Positive — and 2 Die "The feeling that I have is kind of like what, I would say, a drunk driver would have if they killed their family," says Tony Green, who hosted the family gathering that led to their infections https://people.com/health/man-called-covid-hoax-feels-guilty-14-family-members-test-positive-2-die/ When Tony Green decided to host a small family gathering in June, he was doing it partly out of frustration with the COVID-19 restrictions. In his home state of Texas, he didn’t know anyone who had gotten sick in those early months of the pandemic, when most cases centered around the East Coast, and he “thought it was an overblown media hoax,” Green, 43, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post. So Green and his partner invited four people over to their home — his parents and his partner’s parents — to stay for the weekend and enjoy meals, movies and time by a lake together after months apart. But within days, all six of them tested positive for COVID-19, along with eight more people in their extended families. Green developed severe symptoms, requiring a three-day hospital stay after the virus attacked his nervous system, but he eventually recovered. His father-in-law and his father-in-law’s mother were not as lucky, though, and both died from COVID-19. Green’s father-in-law, whom he called his “best friend,” was on supplemental oxygen and improving until one day one of his lungs collapsed, and the other filled with fluid, requiring the help of a ventilator and life support. After nearly two months on the machines, he died. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Green said he feels a sense of guilt for hosting the get-together, even though no one knows who was the first to get COVID-19. "The feeling that I have is kind of like what, I would say, a drunk driver would have if they killed their family," he said. "It was unintentional. This was my home. This is where it happened. So, you know there is a sense of responsibility." And the experience of seeing two family members die from COVID-19, along with his own hospitalization, changed his view of the virus. Green said he now needs to “be the example” and “bring awareness” of the risks when people let their guard up, even around family. With the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, Green said to “take a little bit of extra precaution” and hold family events, if they’re necessary, outdoors or in a large space. “I think that you've got a reason to be afraid of it,” he said, adding that if people are nervous to host or attend, “I think maybe you should bow out this year." Right now, Green wrote in his op-ed, he feels like he “can’t escape” COVID-19. “It’s torn up our family. It’s all over my Facebook. It’s the election. It’s Trump. It’s what I keep thinking about,” he said. “How many people would have gotten sick if I’d never hosted that weekend? One? Maybe two? The grief comes in waves, but that guilt just sits.”