Posted on 03/31/2020 1:34:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
AJO, Ariz. - Motels, mobile home camps and Airbnbs in this small Arizona border town are full up. Work crews stream into eateries for takeout orders. License plates on trucks parked outside the crowded laundromat come from as far away as Alaska.
Around the country, some states have cut back on construction activity to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and hotels and restaurants in many cities have closed. But here in Arizona, the federal government is embarking on a frenetic new phase of construction of the border wall.
The Trump administration contends that the wall will help prevent the spread of the virus into the United States from Mexico, though epidemiologists and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say such a barrier would not mitigate the outbreaks already occurring in every state.
The intensification of construction during the pandemic is raising fears among residents of Ajo and other nearby border communities that the growing influx of workers increases their risk of exposure. Some disease specialists in Arizona are warning that workers clustered in tight quarters along the border could spread the virus around the country when they return to their families.
“This administration’s priority is to get the wall done. The rest of us might as well be damned,” said Maria Singleton, 57, an Ajo resident who has documented in Facebook posts how wall construction is affecting the town - with traffic, noise, dust and, now, new worries about getting sick.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
But I’m not an epidemiologist, so what do I know?
nufsed
Is there anything more useless than the CDC?
I suspect she hates Trump a lot more then she cares about America.
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So does the newspaper that published her quote.
Just a few crumbs from that massive bill will easily complete the wall.
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 31, 2020 | by Simon Romero, New York Times
Incredible fake news from two of the worst creators of fake news: San Francisco Gay Ronicle and New York Slimes.
yet for the past 40 to 50 years none of these leftists worried about tuberculosis, Chagas disease, mumps, measles and all the other shit we thought we’d eradicated in the United States from coming over from Mexico by illegal immigrants. I call bullshit.
Best post of the thread!
says NYT. what do you expect?
“This actually REDUCES my contagion fears. Fewer illegals from foreign countries with inferior healthcare systems because their governments are more authoritarian is a safer bet for us.”
Don’t worry, Chad Wolf will give them VISAs.
Know some people living there , it is a haven of kalififonicators
I would say the business’s in Ajo are glad for the increase in business. I was there about two years ago and the town is hanging on pretty good since the mines closed.
Ajo, is not close to the border.
They just have food and such. That Hwy goes to Lukeville and Organ Pipe NM.
Dust my ass.
> Around the country, some states have cut back on construction activity to curb the spread of the coronavirus,
which states specifically have done so? i know of none...
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