Trump to stage Alabama rally as state struggles with Covid surge aka "a super spreader event"

[Botany]

Donald Trump was due to stage a rally in Alabama on Saturday night, in a city that has declared a Covid emergency and in support of a congressman who both backed Trump’s attempt to overturn the election and this week sympathised with a man who threatened to blow up the US Capitol.

The former president will speak in Cullman, Alabama, in part in support of Mo Brooks’ bid for a US Senate seat.

Like other southern, Republican-run states, Alabama is struggling with a surge in cases of Covid-19 fueled by the contagious Delta variant. On Thursday, the city of Cullman declared a state of emergency.

In a statement on Saturday, Trump said he expected a “huge crowd and tremendous enthusiasm” as there was “much to discuss, mostly having to do with bringing our country back”. Local media reported that organisers expected about 40,000 to attend at York Farms. The former president was set to take the stage at 7pm local time.

Dr William Smith, chief medical officer for Cullman Regional, told CBS42: “We view this as a potential ‘super-spreader’ event, just like last week’s Rock the South that was [at the same location]. We’ve seen an increase in patients since that event last weekend and we’re concerned we could see the same impact.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/21/trump-alabama-rally-mo-brooks-senate-coronavirus-covid

[spanone]

1. may their expectations disappoint them greatly

40,000? Well, it is Alabama

[malaise]

2. Time to bring out the

Cain!

[lame54]

3. Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan

[Ocelot II]

4. Keep culling the herd, GOPers.

[Botany]

5. Not even counting the C-19 virus but 80 degrees F plus, thunderstorms, farm field, AL in August,

older people with co-morbidities, and the hospitals in AL are already filled up too. I hope they bring in
100,000 MAGA people.

[House of Roberts]

12. According to futurecast radar

they have until about 9;30pm before a heavy rain hits.

[Botany]

20. Any chance of an earlier lighting strike?

Just asking. But with some nice humidity the virus will have some nice places to hang out until somebody else inhales it.

[ShazamIam]

7. Kind of my first thoughts, It is going to be a very White crowd, wtf/lol nt

[smirkymonkey]

6. What a stupid, selfish POS.

[spooky3]

8. Sociopaths gotta sociopath. If only they didn't burden our

health care system…

[kimbutgar]

11. I love that you tube video

Many a day I hummed that song when TFG was president.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. It's Trumpstock '21!

Please eat the brown acid.

[Chainfire]

10. Afraid that they may see a surge? Oh, Hell no, it is a sure thing.

[jmbar2]

13. Not a mask among them

https://world-wire.com/trump-rally-cullman-alabama-live-stream/


So many candidates for Herman Cain Lifetime Achievement Awards

[Treefrog]

14. Is this today?

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Should make it a 10-day event. Why let South Dakota have all the fun?

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Discussion? Pretty unlikely. That takes at least 2 people to have that.

No, it will be Trump saying a lot of stupid things in his rambling, unscripted stream-of-consciousness babble. After an hour of that, people will start leaving to beat the crowd out of there.

[struggle4progress]

17. "If you won't die of COVID, Mo will encourage lunatics to blow you up!"

[struggle4progress]

18. City hosting rally declares COVID emergency

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 08/20/21 10:16 AM EDT

Cullman, Ala., on Thursday declared a COVID-19-related state of emergency ahead of a scheduled .. rally featuring .. Trump on Saturday as Alabama struggles with a surge in new infections and a shortage of hospital beds.

The state of emergency declaration allows the city to provide additional resources for the rally, a request .. made by the chief operating office of Cullman Regional Medical Center, which is experiencing overcrowding ...

The Alabama Hospital Association .. revealed on Wednesday that the state has run out of intensive care unit beds, reporting a 29-bed deficit ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/568730-city-hosting-trumps-rally-in-alabama-declares-covid-19-emergency

Come catch COVID is Cullman and die in a hallway waiting breathlessly for a bed!

[louslobbs]

19. What time do they burn the cross?

n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Masque of the Red Hat death

[dalton99a]

22. Hope they breathe hard on one another

and drop dead in three weeks

[Botany]

23. Get a good "lock her up" chant going.

I'm with you let em all get sick and die. I have no Fs left to give.

[Champp]

24. Well, you know

[StarryNite]

25. "Save America Rally"

There might be something to this. They save America by killing off all those double digit IQ trump humpers with COVID. A new version of the Jonestown Massacre. Just a slower, more costly death.