FREEHOLD, N.J. — Each morning they awake with fingers curled inward, stiffened like claws.
Their schedules are dictated by doctors’ appointments, physical therapy sessions and bouts of exhaustion. After weeks on ventilators, two siblings remain too weak to work even as their medical bills mount.
But at a table filled with several members of a tight-knit New Jersey family, the Fuscos, who lost five relatives to the coronavirus, the conversation repeatedly veers away from the chaos and pain of the last three months.
They do not avoid talk of their family’s devastating collective loss. But they also speak of a new focus: finding a remedy for the disease that killed their mother, three siblings and an aunt.
At least 19 other family members contracted the virus, and those who survived Covid-19 did not emerge unscathed.
Joe Fusco, 49, lost 55 pounds and spent 30 days on a ventilator. His sister, Maria Reid, 44, cannot shake the memory of the disjointed hallucinations that dogged her during the 19 or 20 days she was unconscious, or the terror of waking up convinced that her 10-year-old daughter was dead.
“This ain’t over,” Mr. Fusco said of the pandemic on a recent afternoon in the backyard of his home in Freehold, N.J. “This ain’t over in the least bit.”
“I want to help somebody,” he added. “I don’t want anyone else to have to lose five family members.”
The Fuscos were unwilling pioneers charting an early course through all that was unknown about a virus that has killed more than 126,000 people in the United States.
They are now trailblazers of another kind, subjects of at least three scientific studies.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is conducting research that involves evaluating the DNA of the surviving and deceased members of the large Italian-American family for genetic clues. DNA from those who died will be retrieved from hairbrushes, a toothbrush, a blood sample and tissue from an unrelated gallbladder surgery.
Each Thursday, Elizabeth Fusco, the youngest of the 11 children, donates antibody-rich blood plasma that is used to treat patients with the virus to determine if it can help boost their immune response.
“We know another wave is going to come,” Ms. Fusco said. “It’s inevitable. Whatever will help this world is all I care about.”
Their help may prove useful well before the predicted second wave hits as states like Florida and Texas confront an alarming surge in new cases.
The Fusco family’s trauma began just before the state’s lockdown, as a slow cascade of closures marked the start of a new normal.
On March 13, Rita Fusco Jackson, 56, became the second person to die of Covid-19 in New Jersey, which has since recorded 14,992 deaths, making it No. 2 in the nation behind New York for virus-related fatalities.
Within a week, her mother, Grace Fusco, 73, and two brothers, Carmine, 55, and Vincent, 53, had also died. Grace Fusco’s sister on Staten Island died weeks later.
Their story became an urgent, cautionary tale about the potency of the disease and the importance of staying apart at a time when social distancing was still a novel concept.
During the first week of March, Carmine Fusco, the eldest son who was visiting from Pennsylvania, had described feeling chilled during a routine Tuesday dinner in Freehold that drew about 25 family members, his siblings said.
The precise source of the extended family’s infection is unclear, said Mr. Fusco, a horse owner like his father and brothers who had spent time in the weeks beforehand with both brothers who died. He recalls waking up feeling “beat up” the morning after the dinner, which was held at the house where his mother lived with three of his siblings and their families.
He was admitted to the hospital days later, beginning a medical odyssey that would last 44 days. Much of the treatment was experimental, he said, and involved trial and error.
“When I was leaving the hospital, the doctor said, ‘You don’t realize the debt of gratitude the world owes your family,’” said Mr. Fusco, the father of three children aged 10 to 18.
As news accounts of their story swept the globe, the family was cited by state health officials as a prime reason for staying apart.
Still, even as they were being held up as the family no one wanted to become, Elizabeth Fusco was stepping into the role of the little sister everyone might hope to have.
A smaller percentage of covid cases require hospitalization in Canada now compared to earlier in the pandemic, though that doesn’t necessarily imply that the virus is less pathogenic.
i'm not much into conspiracy theories, but i follow anonymous on twitter for a lark, and they had this insane thread, with insane details, about how trump agreed with china to hide the virus info he knew (IN NOVEMBER) in exchange for help with the 2020 election. the epstein shit, the bill barr shit, true or not, it's pretty wild stuff. right out of a movie.
I heard about that thread care to link @HughFreakingDillon I have been looking for it and can’t find it
they may have deleted it. i searched and searched their twitter feed for it and couldn't find it.
See Sleepy Woke Joe's comments below. Very presidential. Speaking of which, Team Trump Treason was again asked what his agenda would be for a second term. Again, he couldn't articulate anything other than a word salad. So much winning. Are you sick of winning yet?
July 2, 2020 at 9:36 a.m. EDT
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The extraordinary news that the European Union has banned American travelers as a self-protective public health measure should draw scrutiny to another appalling dimension of President Trump’s spectacular mishandling of the pandemic, one that has eluded extensive discussion.
In a new statement sent to this blog, Joe Biden is opening up a new front along these lines, arguing that the E.U. ban shows that Trump has transformed the U.S. “into a global health risk.”
When the E.U. announced its ban on U.S. travel — based on our ballooning coronavirus cases, relative to much of the rest of the world — it placed us in a rarefied category of other countries that are also banned: Russia and Brazil.
Which shows that Trump’s disastrous failures haven’t just helped cause tens of thousands of needless U.S. deaths. They aren’t only helping to cause new coronavirus spikes in many states that could prolong our economic calamity.
They’ve also turned us into a kind of global pandemic pariah. And that will carry all sorts of other destructive consequences.
In the new statement, which was sent to me in response to my inquiries about Biden’s views of the E.U. ban, Biden says:
These new travel restrictions will have real consequences for Americans’ ties to the world — personally, economically, culturally, and strategically. Families that have been separated for months will be kept apart even longer. Commercial opportunities for hard-hit American business will be stunted. And the rift that Trump has created with our closest allies will only widen.
Biden notes that all this is the direct result of Trump’s serial failures to take the coronavirus seriously — which also includes Trump’s urging of a too-rapid reopening, leading to a resurgence — and adds:
Because Trump can’t do the most basic parts of his job, the United States is now viewed as posing a global health risk. Today, America is first in infections, first in deaths, and the EU has decided to bar Americans from traveling there as Europe reopens.
And Biden concludes:
A president who started his term by writing hateful travel bans is responsible for getting the American people banned from traveling. His presidency is an outrage from start to finish.
What’s notable is the casting of Trump’s role in bringing about the E.U. ban as another form of deep damage to our international relationships — damage, of course, that Trump himself did on many other fronts. The monumental botching of the coronavirus pandemic, then, is both extension and exacerbation of that Trumpian damage.
The E.U. is reopening borders to 15 countries, but it excluded the United States, Russia and Brazil. The metric the E.U. used was the number of new cases in the past two weeks per 100,000 people. As the New York Times notes, “the average among the 27 European Union countries was 16 in mid-June; in the United States, it was 107.”
The Times further reports on the consequences and deeper significance of this:
The prolonged severance of travel ties between the bloc and the United States has disrupted a critical economic, cultural and diplomatic relationship. Business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic are desperate to resume their visits, couples and families have been split up for months, and the differences between the European and American approaches to combating the pandemic have brought to the fore divergent views on science and policy.
While most European nations went into strict lockdowns early in their outbreaks and have been promoting the wearing of masks and other measures to try and control the resurgence of the illness, the United States has seen a patchwork response and the number of new cases has continued to balloon.
Taken together, all this serves as an indictment not just of Trump’s presidency but also of his illiberal populist nationalist worldview (as well as our woefully underfunded and piecemeal public health system and welfare state).
It shows us parting ways with Western countries — which appear to have managed the pandemic far more successfully — while lumping us in with Russia and Brazil, whose responses were hampered by their own leadership’s disdain for scientific advice and empirical evidence of the threat, much as ours was.
The crowning irony to all this is that Trump has relentlessly sought to convert the pandemic into support for his worldview, his hostility to the ideal of open societies, by demagoguing it into nothing more than a suite of foreign threats. He has used it as a pretext to bar foreign workers from entry and has scapegoated international institutions for his own epic failures.
Temporary bans on travel and immigration in such emergencies are not in and of themselves necessarily objectionable. But in Trump’s case, they have been paired with bottomless contempt for empiricism, science and good government on virtually all other aspects of the crisis.
It’s an extraordinary perversity that in part because of that contempt, we continue to be the target for such a ban even as many other countries recover.
All this provides a way for Biden to expand on his indictment of Trump’s handling of coronavirus: We’ve become a global public health threat (as Biden suggested) when we should be showing international leadership on global public health.
This argument from Biden opens the door to a renewed commitment to such international leadership on global health — at the helm of a revitalized multinationalism — as an alternative to Trump’s blustery, populist, science-and-empiricism-disdaining nationalism. And we’re likely to hear more of this.
Tejas governor just declared a mandatory mask policy for any county with 20 or more covid cases. All the Tejas “responsible” gun owners going to storm the Capitol, protest outside the governor’s manse and hold signs saying “My body, my right?”
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Just saw on CNN that the US is now ahead of Canada with positive daily Corona tests by 10 times per capita. That is insanely high number. I still think that the fact that we do not have as many large cities as you guys plays a huge role in this even though they are taking into account per capita. On the other hand I would never have guessed with the warmer weather that you guys would be so high still in July and while we both made mistakes at the start Canada definitely worked better as a nation going forward.
Also I think this really hurts Trump for those US citizens that are paying attention to what is going on in the world and to their neighbour in the north. Maybe his base is the group that is not paying attention and the needle will not move there but to look to the north and see how a pandemic could have been handled better and the results we are getting has to be something voters are looking at.
Just saw on CNN that the US is now ahead of Canada with positive daily Corona tests by 10 times per capita. That is insanely high number. I still think that the fact that we do not have as many large cities as you guys plays a huge role in this even though they are taking into account per capita. On the other hand I would never have guessed with the warmer weather that you guys would be so high still in July and while we both made mistakes at the start Canada definitely worked better as a nation going forward.
Also I think this really hurts Trump for those US citizens that are paying attention to what is going on in the world and to their neighbour in the north. Maybe his base is the group that is not paying attention and the needle will not move there but to look to the north and see how a pandemic could have been handled better and the results we are getting has to be something voters are looking at.
Texas now has a mandatory mask order. I would say that probably 85% of people that I’ve seen at stores are NOT wearing them, so it doesn’t surprise me that Abbott implemented this. One frustrating thing that I’ve seen from leaders across the board is them not wearing masks when addressing the public. What happened to “lead by example”?!?! I don’t care if your voice sounds muffled, if you are telling people to wear masks, then you should be wearing one while addressing them. This has become one of my new pet peeves. Just watched a briefing from the Nee Mexico governor too and she was not wearing one...what message do they think that sends?
i'm not much into conspiracy theories, but i follow anonymous on twitter for a lark, and they had this insane thread, with insane details, about how trump agreed with china to hide the virus info he knew (IN NOVEMBER) in exchange for help with the 2020 election. the epstein shit, the bill barr shit, true or not, it's pretty wild stuff. right out of a movie.
I heard about that thread care to link @HughFreakingDillon I have been looking for it and can’t find it
they may have deleted it. i searched and searched their twitter feed for it and couldn't find it.
I ended up finding it. Opdeatheaters or something it’s really crazy and its all actual public record information not like crazy pizza hate nonsense.
Tejas governor just declared a mandatory mask policy for any county with 20 or more covid cases. All the Tejas “responsible” gun owners going to storm the Capitol, protest outside the governor’s manse and hold signs saying “My body, my right?”
No they only did that when our democratic city council decided to make a mandatory mask order in Austin before the cases blew up way back in March.
Just saw on CNN that the US is now ahead of Canada with positive daily Corona tests by 10 times per capita. That is insanely high number. I still think that the fact that we do not have as many large cities as you guys plays a huge role in this even though they are taking into account per capita. On the other hand I would never have guessed with the warmer weather that you guys would be so high still in July and while we both made mistakes at the start Canada definitely worked better as a nation going forward.
Also I think this really hurts Trump for those US citizens that are paying attention to what is going on in the world and to their neighbour in the north. Maybe his base is the group that is not paying attention and the needle will not move there but to look to the north and see how a pandemic could have been handled better and the results we are getting has to be something voters are looking at.
Well, the good news for the US is we have a leader who has assured us that this will just disappear, so we should be good soon.
"I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
Just saw on CNN that the US is now ahead of Canada with positive daily Corona tests by 10 times per capita. That is insanely high number. I still think that the fact that we do not have as many large cities as you guys plays a huge role in this even though they are taking into account per capita. On the other hand I would never have guessed with the warmer weather that you guys would be so high still in July and while we both made mistakes at the start Canada definitely worked better as a nation going forward.
Also I think this really hurts Trump for those US citizens that are paying attention to what is going on in the world and to their neighbour in the north. Maybe his base is the group that is not paying attention and the needle will not move there but to look to the north and see how a pandemic could have been handled better and the results we are getting has to be something voters are looking at.
Well, the good news for the US is we have a leader who has assured us that this will just disappear, so we should be good soon.
He's not wrong, once everyone has caught it, it will eventually disappear. The logic is sound, 3D sound.
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
Because some people.- ideologies aside - are just selfish ignorant fucking assholes.
Just saw on CNN that the US is now ahead of Canada with positive daily Corona tests by 10 times per capita. That is insanely high number. I still think that the fact that we do not have as many large cities as you guys plays a huge role in this even though they are taking into account per capita. On the other hand I would never have guessed with the warmer weather that you guys would be so high still in July and while we both made mistakes at the start Canada definitely worked better as a nation going forward.
Also I think this really hurts Trump for those US citizens that are paying attention to what is going on in the world and to their neighbour in the north. Maybe his base is the group that is not paying attention and the needle will not move there but to look to the north and see how a pandemic could have been handled better and the results we are getting has to be something voters are looking at.
More large cities is one factor. The much larger proportion of stupid and selfish citizens and leaders also plays a huge role. Embarrassing!
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
Luckily here in Brooklyn NY, 95% of my customers come in with masks. Anyone who doesn’t gets thrown out immediately. I have no patience for selfishness.
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
Luckily here in Brooklyn NY, 95% of my customers come in with masks. Anyone who doesn’t gets thrown out immediately. I have no patience for selfishness.
Don't blame you guys at all for feeling this way. Check out this article. Imagine making presumably minimum wage and putting up with this shit. Mask wearing has become politicized sadly. The misinformation and weak direction from leaders at the start of the virus did not help things either. They should have came out and said masks help. I know so many people that still think they do not since they were told this by some "Dr" on Facebook.
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
Humans are the worst , we have a mask requirement where I work and we just opened up on Monday of this week. I have had to ask a number of people to leave. The whole front door says " you must have a mask to enter , if you don't we would be happy to help you at our drive thru "
One lady kept saying I cant breath , so I told her you can use our drive thru , nope was the reply I want to come inside.
She put the mask on and after her pulling it down three times over the course of 3 mins I told her to leave.
I have zero tolerance and I am lucky that my company CEO has no tolerance either , he said anyone who has an issue give them his direct phone number and he will set them straight.
At this point I just see someone not wearing a mask out in public as an asshole. Sorry there really is no way around.
One frustrating thing that I’ve seen from leaders across the board is them not wearing masks when addressing the public. What happened to “lead by example”?!?! I don’t care if your voice sounds muffled, if you are telling people to wear masks, then you should be wearing one while addressing them. This has become one of my new pet peeves. Just watched a briefing from the Nee Mexico governor too and she was not wearing one...what message do they think that sends?
I have no issue with Governors or even Trump or Pence not wearing a mask when they do a presser if they handle it the way leaders like Baker here in MA does. You have your mask on when you walk into the briefing room, approach the podium, remove your mask, do your presser/Q&A with nobody anywhere close to you, and put the mask back on at the conclusion before you exit. Sends the correct message and you deliver the information clearly.
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
Humans are the worst , we have a mask requirement where I work and we just opened up on Monday of this week. I have had to ask a number of people to leave. The whole front door says " you must have a mask to enter , if you don't we would be happy to help you at our drive thru "
One lady kept saying I cant breath , so I told her you can use our drive thru , nope was the reply I want to come inside.
She put the mask on and after her pulling it down three times over the course of 3 mins I told her to leave.
I have zero tolerance and I am lucky that my company CEO has no tolerance either , he said anyone who has an issue give them his direct phone number and he will set them straight.
At this point I just see someone not wearing a mask out in public as an asshole. Sorry there really is no way around.
Agreed. If outdoors and clearly able to social distance then no need for a mask. Otherwise, a-hole.
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
Humans are the worst , we have a mask requirement where I work and we just opened up on Monday of this week. I have had to ask a number of people to leave. The whole front door says " you must have a mask to enter , if you don't we would be happy to help you at our drive thru "
One lady kept saying I cant breath , so I told her you can use our drive thru , nope was the reply I want to come inside.
She put the mask on and after her pulling it down three times over the course of 3 mins I told her to leave.
I have zero tolerance and I am lucky that my company CEO has no tolerance either , he said anyone who has an issue give them his direct phone number and he will set them straight.
At this point I just see someone not wearing a mask out in public as an asshole. Sorry there really is no way around.
Agreed!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Despite requirements for wearing face masks, I'm hearing a number of reports of people who refuse to wear masks in my wife's bookstore. It blows my mind that some people are so selfish. The skeleton crew that still works there wear a mask all day long and all. Why is it such a big deal for someone to wear a mask for a the short period of time they are browsing or looking for a book? This pandemic seems to bring the worst out in some people.
Humans are the worst , we have a mask requirement where I work and we just opened up on Monday of this week. I have had to ask a number of people to leave. The whole front door says " you must have a mask to enter , if you don't we would be happy to help you at our drive thru "
One lady kept saying I cant breath , so I told her you can use our drive thru , nope was the reply I want to come inside.
She put the mask on and after her pulling it down three times over the course of 3 mins I told her to leave.
I have zero tolerance and I am lucky that my company CEO has no tolerance either , he said anyone who has an issue give them his direct phone number and he will set them straight.
At this point I just see someone not wearing a mask out in public as an asshole. Sorry there really is no way around.
Agreed! Trump is a narcissistic asshole. Trump doesn't wear masks indoors or around other. Don't be like Trump.
"I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
I wish the anti maskers would just stay home and have intimate relations with their relatives or pray to their Lord or polish their guns or whatever they do. Just stay home if it bothers you so much.
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FREEHOLD, N.J. — Each morning they awake with fingers curled inward, stiffened like claws.
Their schedules are dictated by doctors’ appointments, physical therapy sessions and bouts of exhaustion. After weeks on ventilators, two siblings remain too weak to work even as their medical bills mount.
But at a table filled with several members of a tight-knit New Jersey family, the Fuscos, who lost five relatives to the coronavirus, the conversation repeatedly veers away from the chaos and pain of the last three months.
They do not avoid talk of their family’s devastating collective loss. But they also speak of a new focus: finding a remedy for the disease that killed their mother, three siblings and an aunt.
At least 19 other family members contracted the virus, and those who survived Covid-19 did not emerge unscathed.
Joe Fusco, 49, lost 55 pounds and spent 30 days on a ventilator. His sister, Maria Reid, 44, cannot shake the memory of the disjointed hallucinations that dogged her during the 19 or 20 days she was unconscious, or the terror of waking up convinced that her 10-year-old daughter was dead.
“This ain’t over,” Mr. Fusco said of the pandemic on a recent afternoon in the backyard of his home in Freehold, N.J. “This ain’t over in the least bit.”
“I want to help somebody,” he added. “I don’t want anyone else to have to lose five family members.”
The Fuscos were unwilling pioneers charting an early course through all that was unknown about a virus that has killed more than 126,000 people in the United States.
They are now trailblazers of another kind, subjects of at least three scientific studies.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is conducting research that involves evaluating the DNA of the surviving and deceased members of the large Italian-American family for genetic clues. DNA from those who died will be retrieved from hairbrushes, a toothbrush, a blood sample and tissue from an unrelated gallbladder surgery.
Each Thursday, Elizabeth Fusco, the youngest of the 11 children, donates antibody-rich blood plasma that is used to treat patients with the virus to determine if it can help boost their immune response.
“We know another wave is going to come,” Ms. Fusco said. “It’s inevitable. Whatever will help this world is all I care about.”
Their help may prove useful well before the predicted second wave hits as states like Florida and Texas confront an alarming surge in new cases.
The Fusco family’s trauma began just before the state’s lockdown, as a slow cascade of closures marked the start of a new normal.
On March 13, Rita Fusco Jackson, 56, became the second person to die of Covid-19 in New Jersey, which has since recorded 14,992 deaths, making it No. 2 in the nation behind New York for virus-related fatalities.
Within a week, her mother, Grace Fusco, 73, and two brothers, Carmine, 55, and Vincent, 53, had also died. Grace Fusco’s sister on Staten Island died weeks later.
Their story became an urgent, cautionary tale about the potency of the disease and the importance of staying apart at a time when social distancing was still a novel concept.
During the first week of March, Carmine Fusco, the eldest son who was visiting from Pennsylvania, had described feeling chilled during a routine Tuesday dinner in Freehold that drew about 25 family members, his siblings said.
The precise source of the extended family’s infection is unclear, said Mr. Fusco, a horse owner like his father and brothers who had spent time in the weeks beforehand with both brothers who died. He recalls waking up feeling “beat up” the morning after the dinner, which was held at the house where his mother lived with three of his siblings and their families.
He was admitted to the hospital days later, beginning a medical odyssey that would last 44 days. Much of the treatment was experimental, he said, and involved trial and error.
“When I was leaving the hospital, the doctor said, ‘You don’t realize the debt of gratitude the world owes your family,’” said Mr. Fusco, the father of three children aged 10 to 18.
As news accounts of their story swept the globe, the family was cited by state health officials as a prime reason for staying apart.
Still, even as they were being held up as the family no one wanted to become, Elizabeth Fusco was stepping into the role of the little sister everyone might hope to have.
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The extraordinary news that the European Union has banned American travelers as a self-protective public health measure should draw scrutiny to another appalling dimension of President Trump’s spectacular mishandling of the pandemic, one that has eluded extensive discussion.
In a new statement sent to this blog, Joe Biden is opening up a new front along these lines, arguing that the E.U. ban shows that Trump has transformed the U.S. “into a global health risk.”
When the E.U. announced its ban on U.S. travel — based on our ballooning coronavirus cases, relative to much of the rest of the world — it placed us in a rarefied category of other countries that are also banned: Russia and Brazil.
Which shows that Trump’s disastrous failures haven’t just helped cause tens of thousands of needless U.S. deaths. They aren’t only helping to cause new coronavirus spikes in many states that could prolong our economic calamity.
In the new statement, which was sent to me in response to my inquiries about Biden’s views of the E.U. ban, Biden says:
Biden notes that all this is the direct result of Trump’s serial failures to take the coronavirus seriously — which also includes Trump’s urging of a too-rapid reopening, leading to a resurgence — and adds:
And Biden concludes:
What’s notable is the casting of Trump’s role in bringing about the E.U. ban as another form of deep damage to our international relationships — damage, of course, that Trump himself did on many other fronts. The monumental botching of the coronavirus pandemic, then, is both extension and exacerbation of that Trumpian damage.
The E.U. is reopening borders to 15 countries, but it excluded the United States, Russia and Brazil. The metric the E.U. used was the number of new cases in the past two weeks per 100,000 people. As the New York Times notes, “the average among the 27 European Union countries was 16 in mid-June; in the United States, it was 107.”
The Times further reports on the consequences and deeper significance of this:
Taken together, all this serves as an indictment not just of Trump’s presidency but also of his illiberal populist nationalist worldview (as well as our woefully underfunded and piecemeal public health system and welfare state).
It shows us parting ways with Western countries — which appear to have managed the pandemic far more successfully — while lumping us in with Russia and Brazil, whose responses were hampered by their own leadership’s disdain for scientific advice and empirical evidence of the threat, much as ours was.
The crowning irony to all this is that Trump has relentlessly sought to convert the pandemic into support for his worldview, his hostility to the ideal of open societies, by demagoguing it into nothing more than a suite of foreign threats. He has used it as a pretext to bar foreign workers from entry and has scapegoated international institutions for his own epic failures.
Temporary bans on travel and immigration in such emergencies are not in and of themselves necessarily objectionable. But in Trump’s case, they have been paired with bottomless contempt for empiricism, science and good government on virtually all other aspects of the crisis.
It’s an extraordinary perversity that in part because of that contempt, we continue to be the target for such a ban even as many other countries recover.
All this provides a way for Biden to expand on his indictment of Trump’s handling of coronavirus: We’ve become a global public health threat (as Biden suggested) when we should be showing international leadership on global public health.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/02/biden-just-slammed-trump-new-hidden-vulnerability/
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Also I think this really hurts Trump for those US citizens that are paying attention to what is going on in the world and to their neighbour in the north. Maybe his base is the group that is not paying attention and the needle will not move there but to look to the north and see how a pandemic could have been handled better and the results we are getting has to be something voters are looking at.
There are no kings inside the gates of eden
There are no kings inside the gates of eden
https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-ice-cream-shop-asks-customers-to-stop-yelling-at-teenage-employees-for-wearing-masks/33017028
Humans are the worst , we have a mask requirement where I work and we just opened up on Monday of this week. I have had to ask a number of people to leave. The whole front door says " you must have a mask to enter , if you don't we would be happy to help you at our drive thru "
One lady kept saying I cant breath , so I told her you can use our drive thru , nope was the reply I want to come inside.
She put the mask on and after her pulling it down three times over the course of 3 mins I told her to leave.
I have zero tolerance and I am lucky that my company CEO has no tolerance either , he said anyone who has an issue give them his direct phone number and he will set them straight.
At this point I just see someone not wearing a mask out in public as an asshole. Sorry there really is no way around.
Mask it or CASKET
Agreed!
Just stay home if it bothers you so much.