MOSINEE, WISCONSIN (VG) Just before the United States rounds out 200,000 registered corona deaths, President Donald Trump held another large election rally where very few of those present wore bandages or kept the recommended distance.
– It should not be a topic, because the bandages do not help much. I do not think they do. Maybe a little. But I do not think they protect as everyone says they do. If you get sick, you get sick, says Leonora Rehborg (38) to VG a few hours before the president arrived in Mosinee in the state of Wisconsin.
She is standing outside waiting to be let in. Without face mask. Mason Johnson (17) does the same.
– I do not believe all the lies that the media tells us about the virus, he says and says that he himself feels healthy.
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HIDDING THE MOUTH: Nancy Milhouse received a bandage as she entered the area ahead of Trump’s election rally, but she quickly put it in her purse. Photo: Thomas Nilsson / VG
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Nancy Millhouse (66) shakes her head when we ask her if she should wear a face mask when she is going to stand close together with a few thousand people.
– I do not believe it. I believe in covid, but not that it affects so many people. Only those who are already ill.
We point out that 200,000 people have soon lost their lives to the virus in the United States.
“People die every day,” she says, shrugging.
– Very dangerous
Recently, the president has received a lot of criticism for holding large election rallies during the pandemic. Several of them have been in hangars with an open wall and three walls, but last weekend held a meeting in Las Vegas that was completely indoors. This is even though the state of Nevada has a ban on events that gather more than 50 people.
DO NOT MOUTH BIND: Leonora Rehborg does not believe that a bandage helps.
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The meeting caused the governor of Nevada to rage. Several medical experts have done the same. Also towards the meetings that have been partly outdoors.
– These election meetings where people do not keep their distance and do not wear face masks, especially those who have been indoors, are very dangerous. If only one person is infected there without having symptoms, then this person will be able to infect many others, says Robert Klitzman to VG.
He is a professor of social medicine at the Columbia School of Public Health, which is part of the prestigious Columbia University in New York.
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Also night to Friday Norwegian time Trump held a major election rally with several thousand listeners. It is only hours before the country he leads will register the 200,000th corona death. As you read this, it may have already happened.
Admittedly, this time all the trailers stood outside the hangar at Central Wisconsin Airport outside the small town of Mosinee.
But they stood very close. Shoulder to shoulder. None of them kept two meters away, which is recommended by the US health authorities.
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CROWD: Trump supporters first stood outside the airport where the election rally was held for a few hours before entering the area. In both places they stood close together. This picture shows that almost no one was wearing a mask.
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– Destroy for Trump
The couple Sheryl Bee (58) and Rick Hagen (62) have taken the trip all the way from Illinois. They wear bandages when VG stops them, because they were given them at the entrance. But they have no intention of keeping them. Hagen says they do not think the virus is as bad as the experts want it to be.
– It’s a bad flu, but this is exaggerated. If you do not feel well then stay at home.
– But people can be sick without knowing it?
– But does that mean we can not be around people for the rest of our lives? How long will this last? asks the 62-year-old, before his girlfriend takes over:
– There are actually fewer people who get sick from this than from the flu. I think it’s a political agenda. I think the virus exists and I sympathize with those who have got it, but it has been politicized from the other side to destroy for Trump through the economy, she says.
– There is only one more way to get him out, he adds.
—JUST IN THE BEGINNING: The couple Sheryl Bee and Rick Hagen put on face masks on their way into the area because they were given them. They still said they would take them off again. Photo: Thomas Nilsson / VG
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– Then their time has come
Robert Larson (66), on the other hand, intends to use a face mask. He has got one that says “Trump 2020”, and proudly shows it off.
– I use it to protect the family in case something happens. Just to be on the safe side. It’s like wearing a seatbelt, he says.
Grant Goodness (45) could not disagree more.
– It’s a fake virus.
– You do not believe in it?
– In.
SAYS NO TO BUTTERFLY: Grant Goodness does not want to wear a face mask, and believes the constitution gives him the right not to.
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– But 200,000 have soon lost their lives from this virus?
– People with underlying diseases yes.
– Do not want to use a mask to be on the safe side?
– In.
– Why?
– I mean it is against my constitutional law
– What if people die from it then?
– Then that is probably what happens then, says Goodness, points to the sky and says that in that case it is God’s decision.
– Then their time has come.
—MEASURING FEVER: No one was allowed in the area if the body temperature was too high, but it is a fact that one can be infected with corona without having symptoms. Photo: Thomas Nilsson / VG
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Several US media outlets have recently pointed out that a sanitary napkin order would not be unconstitutional. For example, a president may introduce it on federal grounds.
It is true that many of those who lose their lives have underlying diseases, but most of them would not have lost their lives if they were not infected with coronary heart disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American version of Norwegian FHI, has been clear on.
– Terribly unfortunate
Professor Robert Klitzman is upset over those who claim it is their constitutional right not to wear a face mask.
– We respect the right to independent freedom in this country, but it stops where it becomes a threat to others. When it comes to health, we often do things that restrict our freedom, but we do it because we know it is the right thing to do.
—MEETING THE SUPPORTERS: Donald Trump on the podium in Wisconsin Friday night Norwegian time. Photo: Thomas Nilsson / VG
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Klitzman is also upset when he hears people say they do not need to wear face masks because they do not feel sick.
Mouthpieces are there both to protect ourselves from others, but also – and this is just as important – to protect others from ourselves if we have the virus, but not symptoms. Many people do not know they have this virus.
He believes the problem now is that the use of face masks has been politicized.
– It’s terribly unfortunate. Because of that, we have no control over the pandemic. Something we could have had, as for example South Korea managed, says the professor, who thinks Donald Trump must take the blame for it.
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He points out that the president did not relate to the pandemic in the beginning, but among other things called it a bluff, and the attitude Trump has had to bandages. He has barely appeared in public with them himself, but has instead made fun of Joe Biden, who wears a bandage all the time.
– This has led those who do not want to admit that the president is doing something wrong to deny the threat from the virus, because if you wear a face mask, it will be an admission that Trump is wrong and that this is a serious threat.
It makes him terribly frustrated. He is aware that thousands of lives would have been saved if the president had followed the advice of medical experts.
– I am disappointed and angry that the president has politicized this. Thousands of deaths could have been avoided if he had listened to medical experts and science, but he is willing to sacrifice thousands of lives because he believes this will help him be re-elected, says the professor, who himself knows several people in New York who have lost the life of the virus.
—AT TRUMP MEETING: VG’s Thomas Nilsson and Jostein Matre in Misonee, Wisconsin.
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