President Donald Trump, whose administration has been accused of botching the rollout of testing and politicizing the pandemic, is adamant that America will not shut down a second time. Though rules and restrictions vary from state to state, much of the nation has reopened in some form despite rising case numbers, particularly in the South and West.
Cases are rising in Oklahoma, where Trump forged ahead with his indoor campaign rally in Tulsa on Saturday. That same day, the state’s health department reported more than 300 new cases of the virus, and its total number of confirmed cases surpassed 10,000.
The campaign didn’t require attendees to maintain social distancing measures or wear masks, though the Trump administration’s top public health officials have stressed the importance of doing both. Campaign officials did require temperature checks and provided masks and hand sanitizer to rallygoers. But reports and pictures of the rally show few people wearing face coverings as they sat in adjacent seats or stood shoulder to shoulder.
On Sunday, Wolf said because Oklahoma is in phase three of reopening — which allows further social interaction and unrestricted staffing of work sites — “activities like this are allowed.”
“It’s also a personal choice that people are making on the face coverings and where you are within that phase. So, again, it’s very specific to individual states,” Wolf said.
Source: politico.com
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