CONWAY, S.C. -- The first mention of the coronavirus pandemic was a joke.A master of ceremonies was explaining to a crowd of more than 100 people why the keynote speakers -- home-state Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott -- were running a bit late."You have to understand, they haven't got to
A master of ceremonies was explaining to a crowd of more than 100 people why the keynote speakers — home-state Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott — were running a bit late.
The outdoor gathering here Thursday was a send-off event for Cleo Steele, a longtime Republican Party operative in Horry County, who is retiring to Ohio. Speakers shared the same microphone. Local and state political candidates greeted voters with handshakes and squeezed tight for pictures. Of all the people gathered outside the county Republican office — many of them senior citizens — fewer than a dozen wore masks.
To treat the coronavirus as something to be feared, they said, was a political act incongruous with their values. August Savello, 49, said he followed Dr. Steven Hotze, a Republican activist who has published videos such as “Coronavirus Mass Hysteria,” and preferred to do his own research rather than listening to state and federal public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
State data shows that Horry County has nearly 400 confirmed cases of coronavirus, below the state’s per capita average. Black South Carolinians, meanwhile, have contracted more than half of the state’s total cases, although they make up less than 30% of the state’s population. The crowd at the event was almost all white.
During the program, Steele, seated in a wheelchair, was presented with commendations from Graham and Scott, as well as awards from local and state Republicans. Speakers posed for pictures with the honoree, hugging her close as they applauded her years of service. Aides to Graham and Scott wore masks. The senators did not.
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