{"id":176246,"date":"2020-07-30T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/30\/herman-cain-dies-of-covid-caught-at-the-trump-rally\/"},"modified":"2020-07-30T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:53:00","slug":"herman-cain-dies-of-covid-caught-at-the-trump-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/30\/herman-cain-dies-of-covid-caught-at-the-trump-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Herman Cain Dies of Covid Caught at the Trump Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 260px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/832o8eL.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/832o8eL.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>At Tulsa, No Mask<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Where the former Presidential candidate actually caught the virus is not certain, but the timing of his infections strongly implies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/herman-cain-dead.html\">he caught the virus at Trump&#8217;s Tulsa campaign rally<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Herman Cain, who rose from poverty in the segregated South to become chief executive of a successful pizza chain and then thrust himself into the national spotlight by seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has died. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p>His death was announced on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/hermancain.com\/heartbroken-world-poorer-herman-cain-gone-lord\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=thenewvoice&amp;utm_content=2020-07-30\">on his website<\/a> and on social media accounts. It did not say precisely when or where he died. Dan Calabrese, the website\u2019s editor, attributed the death to the coronavirus, which President Trump, in a White House briefing, later referred to as the \u201cChina virus\u201d and a \u201chorrible plague\u201d in affirming it as the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cain had been hospitalized in the Atlanta area this month after testing positive for the virus on June 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cain had attended President Trump\u2019s indoor rally in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20 and had done \u201ca lot of traveling\u201d recently, Mr. Calabrese said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any way to trace this to the one specific contact that caused him to be infected,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cWe\u2019ll never know.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not a fan of Mr. Cain, and the opportunity for meming this tempting, but I&#8217;m not going to go there.<\/p>\n<p>Just wear your f%$#ing mask, OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Tulsa, No Mask Where the former Presidential candidate actually caught the virus is not certain, but the timing of his infections strongly implies that he caught the virus at Trump&#8217;s Tulsa campaign rally: Herman Cain, who rose from poverty in the segregated South to become chief executive of a successful pizza chain and then &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[507,572,374,460],"class_list":["post-176246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-obituaries","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}