2) Wearing a mask when in public particularly indoors is a very effective way of slowing the spread of the virus. Unless local and county offices refuse to mandate masks, no federal dollars. The Trump campaign, in fact, is not mandating masks be worn at the President's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night -- although masks will be passed out. He also told Trump that Oklahomans "can't wait to have you here on Saturday." "Governor Ricketts has any future he wants," former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told the World-Herald in 2019.

From embracing stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of Covid-19, we've come to see armed protesters storm state capitols to end the lockdown. Throughout the 20th century — and even today — as Black people moved into previously segregated neighborhoods, the existing white residents moved out in large numbers. African Americans, who comprise 13% of the US population, make up nearly 28% of Covid-19 cases. Five days later, on April 13, a small but furious group of protesters, virtually all white, some wearing MAGA hats, gathered outside the Ohio statehouse to demand Gov. We could make this another instance of white flight -- from public health realities, from collective responsibility, from the recognition that the pandemic imperils people of all colors and communities.