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Moran talks jobs, virus & discord

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

Sen. Jerry Moran speaks in Iola Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran said he sees “merit” in an infrastructure bill Congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump are working on.

Moran, a Republican, said he could see the measure as a good way of “putting people back to work and maybe it’s smarter to spend that money today to try to boost the economy by creating more jobs.”

About 30 million Americans are looking for work.

Unemployment claims for this week were almost 1.5 million, the 12th consecutive week that claims have exceeded 1 million. The nation’s unemployment rate, now at 13.3%, has

eased slightly since states began rolling back restrictions a few weeks ago.

House Democrats introduced the $1.5 trillion stimulus package last week, of which $300 billion would go to fix roads and bridges and another $100 billion for transit options.

Moran was especially favorable for its inclusion of $100 billion for broadband expansion.

Admitting neither big spending nor big government are in his DNA, the senator said “the challenges of the pandemic require both.”

Moran addressed Thursday’s gathering of the Iola See MORAN | Page A6

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By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

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Trump asks Supreme Court to strike down healthcare act WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases rise in more than half of the states, the Trump administration is urging the Supreme Donald Trump Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act. The administration’s high court filing at 10:30 p.m.

Thursday came the same day the government reported that close to half a million See TRUMP | Page A3

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riencing one of the worst virus outbreaks in the world.

The problem isn’t getting to Brazil, however, but being able to return to the U.S. for the fall semester.

And that’s not the only difficulty the trio have faced.

Due to COVID-19, ACC had to cancel its summer employment opportunities, which meant that not only See DEVILS | Page A4

Pool opening delayed

About the quilts

See QUILTS | Page A7

Devil do-gooders Life has recently thrown ACC student-athletes Eduardo Tavares, David Almeida and Tiago Troyano Pereverziev de Abreu quite a curveball.

The three soccer players, all hailing from Brazil, cannot return to their home country due to concerns over COVID-19, especially as Brazil is currently expe-

AHARPE — Joyce Lee is in a giving mood.

The occasion?

Her 80th birthday, which was Friday.

The gifts? Quilts. Lots of quilts.

Lee is celebrating her birthday by gifting quilts to each of her 24 grandchildren.

The gifts will be distributed next weekend — a combination birthday/Independence Day celebration at the Lee household in LaHarpe.

“The kids are planning something,” Lee noted, but she’s largely been kept out of the planning process.

(Who doesn’t love a surprise?)

These aren’t some little throw blankets, something

Eduardo Tavares, David Almeida and Tiago Troyano Pereverziev de Abreu give free bike rides during Iola’s recent 620 celebration. COURTESY PHOTO

Joyce Lee holds up a bear claw pattern she is utilizing on her latest quilt. Lee is giving away 24 quilts, one to each of her grandchildren, for her 80th birthday. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

City leaders are pushing back their plans to open the Iola Municipal Pool, at least a week.

Interim Iola City Administrator Corey Schinstock announced Thursday morning the delay, citing a recent rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Allen County.

“With four cases in Allen County, I just don’t feel

comfortable opening the pool at this time,” Schinstock said.

The Iola pool was scheduled to open on Monday, about a month later than normal.

For weeks, Allen County had avoided the brunt of the novel coronavirus, with the only confirmed See POOL | Page A6

Now anyone in USD 257 can get a free meal

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Starting Monday, anyone in USD 257 can pick up five days worth of free breakfast and lunch meals until Aug. 6.

The goal is to make sure everyone in the district has access to healthy meals, and to encourage families to eat together this summer.

The district received $8,609 in “Feeding Kansas Kids During COVID” grant money from the Kansas Health Foundation and Sunflower Foundation. The grant allows the district to expand its summer meals program to everyone — no matter their age.

Currently, the summer See MEALS | Page A3

USD 257 food service cooks Jordan Whitsell and Natasha Radley prepare meals for the Summer Meals Program. A grant will allow the district to feed anyone in the district, regardless of age, starting Monday. Meal pickups are on Mondays and Wednesdays. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

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Trump plans extravaganza at Mount Rushmore

Obituary Joe Ed Diebolt Joseph Edward “Joe Ed” Diebolt, age 60, of Iola, died at his residence on Saturday, June 13, 2020.

He was born Oct. 21, 1959, to Joseph L. Diebolt and Christina (Ronspiez) Diebolt.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

A graveside service will be at 10 a.m. on Monday in St. Martin’s Cemetery, Piqua.

Police report Theft Amber Goodner reported that between 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. Wednesday, someone stole a bicycle from the front yard in the 400 block of South Kentucky Street.

Spraypaint damage Michael Dyche reported someone sprayed two spraypaint dots on the side of his 2000 Lincoln Navigator between noon Wednes-

day and 4 p.m. Thursday in the 900 block of North Washington Avenue.

Accident Michael B. Melvin, 65, backed a 2016 Ford truck owned by Cox Communications into a 2007 Ford pickup owned

by Albert D. Radford at 4:07 p.m. Wednesday in the 600 block of North First Street. The pickup received minor damage to the front bumper.

KU leaders challenge in-class mandate KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Many department chairs at the University of Kansas are pushing back against the school’s plan to have classroom instruction in the fall, saying they should have the option to teach online.

On Monday, a letter signed by 38 department heads was emailed to Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer after Chancellor Douglas Girod announced last week that the school would hold in-class sessions starting Aug. 24.

Since then, another 14 have signed, KCUR-FM reported Thursday.

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the requirement under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which department heads call “impossibly unwieldy, discriminatory and perhaps illegal.”

“The process raises weighty confidentiality concerns, and we believe that many urgent questions remain to be answered about” complying with the ADA and federal anti-discrimination and safety rules, the letter states.

“The plan asks instructors to divulge personal health (including mental health) information that is not in fact counted as a disability by law in order to learn that our request may have been denied.”

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — President Trump is planning a massive fireworks display at Mount Rushmore on July 3, despite a decade-long ban on pyrotechnics at the iconic spot because of concerns about public health, environmental and safety risks.

Trump has wanted to stage fireworks at the national memorial in South Dakota’s Black Hills since 2018, according to two individuals familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. But the idea was scuttled or delayed by a number of his advisers, these individuals said.

The National Park Service stopped staging pyrotechnics at Mount Rushmore in 2010 out of concern that it could ignite wildfires under drought conditions. The memorial is surrounded by 1,200 acres of forested lands, including ponderosa pines, and lies next to the Black Hills National Forest’s Black Elk Wilderness.

Trump’s plans to kick off Independence Day with a showy display at Mount Rushmore have angered Native Americans, who view the monument as a desecration of land violently stolen from them and used to pay homage to leaders hostile to Indigenous people.

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national reckoning over racism and a reconsideration of the symbolism of monuments around the globe. Many Native American activists say the Rushmore memorial is as reprehensible as the many Confederate monuments being toppled around the nation.

“Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” said Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and the president of a local activist organization called NDN Collective. “It’s an injustice to actively steal Indigenous people’s land, then carve the white faces of the conquerors who committed genocide.”

While some activists, like Tilsen, want to see the monument removed and the Black Hills returned to the Lakota, others have called for a share in the economic benefits from the region.

Trump has long shown a fascination with Mount Rushmore.

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Native American activists are planning protests for Trump’s July 3 visit, part of Trump’s “comeback” campaign for a nation reeling from sickness, unemployment and, recently, social unrest. The event is slated to include fighter jets thundering over the 79-year-old stone monument in South Dakota’s Black Hills and the first fireworks display at the site since 2009.

Ian Fury, a spokesman for South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R), said in an email that the National Park Service had concluded the event will not harm the environment and conducted a controlled burn earlier this month to reduce brush that could fuel a wildfire.

“We are confident that the Rushmore Fireworks celebration can be conducted safely,” Fury said, adding that organizers are monitoring weather forecasts. The Interior Department has positioned firefighting resources at the site, according to a senior department official.

But it comes amid a

his dream to have his face carved into the monument. He later joked at a campaign rally about getting enshrined alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. And while it was Noem, a Republican, who pushed for a return of fireworks on the eve of Independence Day, Trump committed to visiting South Dakota for the celebration.

Some wildfire experts have raised concerns the pyrotechnics could spark fires, especially because the region has seen dry weather this year. Firefighters called in crews from two other states to help Thursday as a blaze consumed approximately 150 acres about 6 miles south of the monument.

The four faces, carved into the mountain with dynamite and drills, are known as the “shrine to democracy.” The presidents were chosen by sculptor Gutzon Borglum for their leadership during four phases of American development: Washington led the birth of the nation; Jefferson sparked its westward expansion; Lincoln preserved the union and emancipated slaves; Roosevelt championed industrial innovation.

And yet, for many Native American people, including the Lakota, Cheyenne, Omaha, Arapaho, Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache, the monument is a desecration to the Black Hills.

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Trump: Asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare Continued from A1

people who lost their health insurance amid the economic shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 have gotten coverage through HealthCare.gov.

The administration’s legal brief makes no mention of the virus.

More than 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage and protections for people with preexisting health conditions also would be put at risk if the court agrees with the administration. Nothing will happen immediately. The case won’t be heard before the fall.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the administration’s latest move in a partisan battle over “Obamacare” that has stretched on for a full decade since the law’s passage in 2010.

Pelosi is planning a floor vote early next week on her own bill to expand the ACA, sweetening its health insurance subsidies so more people will be covered.

“There is no legal justification and no moral excuse for the Trump

The U.S. Supreme Court Building FILE PHOTO administration’s disastrous efforts to take away Americans’ health care,” she said in a statement.

Just as the nation seemed to be getting better control over the virus outbreak, states including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Texas are reporting a surge in cases. Overall, more than half the states are seeing case increases and some are tapping the brakes on reopening plans.

Anger over problems with “Obamacare” was once a winning issue for Republicans, helping them gain control of the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014. But the politics of the issue flipped after President Donald Trump failed to deliver in 2017 on his vow to “repeal and replace” the health law and provide lower-cost coverage for everybody.

Democrats were energized by their successful defense of the ACA,

and that contributed to their winning back the House.

In the case before the Supreme Court, Texas and other conservative-led states argue that the ACA was essentially rendered unconstitutional after Congress passed tax legislation in 2017 that eliminated the law’s unpopular fines for not having health insurance, but left in place its requirement that virtually all Americans have coverage.

Trump has put the weight of his administration behind the legal challenge.

If the health insurance requirement is invalidated, “then it necessarily follows that the rest of the ACA must also fall,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote Thursday. It’s the third time the court is being asked to undo “Obamacare.”

Two previous attempts failed.

At the White House

on Friday, there was no turning back.

“A global pandemic does not change what Americans know — Obamacare has been an unlawful failure,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said Friday in a statement.

He said it limits choice and “forces Americans to purchase unaffordable plans.”

Other prominent Republicans, including Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, have said Congress didn’t intend to bring down the whole law by striking the coverage penalty.

Alexander, who leads the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, has repeatedly said there’s no way Congress would repeal protections for people with preexisting conditions. He says senators intended to repeal the penalty for people who go without coverage, and that’s all.

The Trump administration’s views on what parts of the ACA might be kept or replaced if the law is overturned have shifted over time. But in legal arguments, it has always supported getting rid of “Obamacare” provisions that prohibit insurance companies from discriminating against people on account of their medical history.

Nonetheless, Trump has repeatedly assured Americans that people with preexisting conditions would still be protected. Neither the White House nor congressional Republicans have specified how.

The government re-

port showing rising sign-ups for health coverage under the ACA amid the coronavirus shutdown came from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The figures are partial because they don’t include sign-ups from states that run their own health insurance marketplaces. Major states like California and New York are not counted in the federal statistics.

An estimated 27 million people may have lost job-based coverage due to layoffs. That means they would be eligible for a special signup period for subsidized plans under the Obamaera law. Many may also qualify for Medicaid.

Thursday’s report from the government showed that about 487,000 people signed up with HealthCare.gov after losing their workplace insurance this year. That’s an increase of 46% from the same time period last year.

It’s unclear from the government numbers how many of the new enrollees lost their coverage because of layoffs due to the pandemic.

CMS also made no estimate of how many people will ultimately seek coverage through the Obama health law as a result of economic shock waves. Generally there’s a 60-day window to apply after losing coverage.

However, the report found a clear connection. “While the magnitude may be unclear, job losses due to COVID-19 have led to increased enrollments on HealthCare.gov,” it said.

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meals program serves children ages 1-18.

“With COVID, many people are without jobs.

Some are still waiting for unemployment to come through,” Judy Baker, food service coordinator for the school district, said. “This is to help the community and make sure everyone is getting something to eat.”

The program starts Monday.

The meals will be provided in the same manner as the children’s meals program.

Each Monday, visit a pickup location to receive two breakfast meals and two lunches.

One of the lunches will

be served as a hot lunch.

Each Wednesday, visit a pickup location to receive three breakfasts meals and three lunches. One of the lunches will be served hot.

Most Iola residents are asked to come to Iola High School at 207 N. Cottonwood, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Follow the signs for drive-thru service. You won’t have to leave your car; someone will be waiting to hand you a package of meals.

Meal pickup locations are also dropped off by the MARV bus, but the process moves quickly so expect to be waiting at the location on time: 10:15-10:30 a.m - 2900

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States retreat as COVID cases rise across country

By MICHELLE SMITH AND F. D’EMILIO The Associated Press

Texas and Florida clamped down on bars again Friday in the nation’s biggest retreat yet as a surge across the South and West sent the number of confirmed new coronavirus infections per day in the U.S. to an all-time high of 40,000.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered all bars closed, while Florida banned alcohol consumption at all such establishments.

The two states joined the small but growing list of those that are either backtracking or putting any further reopenings of their economies on hold because of a comeback by the virus.

Abbott had pursued up to now one of the most aggressive reopening schedules of any state and had not only resisted calls to order the wearing of masks but had also refused until last week to let local governments take such measures.

“It is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain types of activities, including Texans congregating in bars,” he said. “The actions in this executive order are essential to our mission to swiftly contain this virus and protect public health.”

Texas, reported more than 17,000 confirmed new cases in the past three days, with a record high of nearly 6,000 on Thursday. The day’s tally of over 4,700 hospitalizations was also a record.

The Florida agency that governs bars acted after the daily number of confirmed cases in the state neared 9,000, a record that was almost double the previous

“Bars were at normal capacity, not COVID capacity. It was like they forgot there was a pandemic or just stopped caring.”

— Colleen Corbet, Florida bartender

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday, June 22, 2020. Abbott on Friday closed bars, ordered restaurants to return to half capacity, and took other measures against the state’s rise in coronavirus infections. AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN/RICARDO B. BRAZZIELL/TNS

mark set just two days earlier.

A number of the hardest-hit states, including Texas, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas, have Republican governors who have resisted mask-wearing requirements and largely echoed President Donald Trump’s desire to quickly reopen the economy.

Colleen Corbett, a 30-year-old bartender at two places in Tampa, said that she was disappointed and worried about being unemployed again but that the restrictions are the right move.

“Bars were at normal capacity, not COVID capacity,” Corbett said.

“It was like they forgot there was a pandemic or just stopped caring.”

Amid the surge, the White House coronavirus task force, led by Vice President Pence, held its first briefing in nearly two months, signaling a recognition that the administration’s can’t ignore the

alarming increases.

Pence gave assurances that “this moment in the coronavirus pandemic is different than what we saw two months ago.” He said that among other things, the U.S. has more supplies on hand now, with no requests from hard-hit states for equipment such as ventilators and protective gear.

The number of confirmed new infections in the U.S. per day soared past the previous high of 36,400, set on April 24, during one of the deadliest stretches in the crisis, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University. The average number of new cases per day has risen about 60 percent over the past two weeks, according to an Associated Press analysis.

Health experts said a disturbingly large number of cases are being seen among young people who are going out again, hitting the bars

and other nightspots, often without wearing masks or observing other social-distancing rules.

While the increase in reported cases is believed to reflect, in part, greatly expanded testing, experts say there is ample evidence the virus is making a comeback, including rising deaths and hospitalizations in parts of the country and higher percentages of tests coming back positive for the virus.

Deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. are down to around 600 per day, compared with about 2,200 in midApril. Despite the rise in cases, some experts have expressed doubt that deaths will return to that level, because of advances in treatment and prevention and also because a large share of the new infections are in younger adults, who are more likely than older ones to survive.

The virus is blamed for 124,000 deaths in the

U.S. and 2.4 million confirmed infections nationwide, by Johns Hopkins’ count. But U.S. health officials said the true number of Americans infected is about 20 million, or almost 10 times higher.

Worldwide, the virus has claimed close to a half-million lives, according to Johns Hopkins.

In a sign of the reversal of fortune among states, New York said it is asking Arizona, Texas and Florida whether they need any medical equipment, personnel, technical advice or other help. Various states and thousands of outof-state health care workers helped New York when it was in the throes of the deadliest outbreak in the nation this spring.

“We will never forget that graciousness, and we will repay it any way we can,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

In addition to closing bars again, Abbott scaled back restaurant capacity and shut down rafting operations and said any outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people will need approval from the local government. The move came as the number of patients at Texas hospitals statewide more than doubled in two weeks.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pursued a phased approach to lifting restrictions, doing things more slowly than a task force rec-

ommended, but has allowed theme parks to reopen, encouraged professional sports to come to Florida and pushed for the GOP convention to be held in the Sunshine State.

On Thursday, Arizona put on hold any further efforts to reopen the economy, with Republican Gov. Doug Ducey saying the numbers “continue to go in the wrong direction.”

Arizona reported over 3,000 additional infections Thursday, the fourth day in a week with an increase over that mark.

Nevada’s governor ordered the wearing of face masks in public, Las Vegas casinos included.

Elsewhere around the world, China moved closer to containing a fresh outbreak in Beijing. Another record daily increase in India pushed the caseload in the world’s second most populous nation toward half a million.

And other countries with big populations like Indonesia, Pakistan and Mexico grappled with large numbers of infections and strained health care systems.

South Africa, which accounts for about half of the infections on the African continent with over 118,000, reported a record of nearly 6,600 new cases after loosening what had been one of the world’s strictest lockdowns earlier this month.

Devils: ACC student-athletes connect with community Continued from A1

were the students stuck here, they couldn’t work on campus, which David and Tiago had already made arrangements to do.

Moreover, their visas do not give them the ability to get official work off-campus, either, so they were stuck

scratching their heads, unsure of how to proceed.

Fortunately, thanks to the ingenuity of coach Doug Desmarteau, he was able to connect the students with folks around the Iola community, doing all sorts of tasks to lend a hand to those in need.

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For instance, Eduardo, David and Tiago gave free pedicab rides to people attending the 620 celebration on the Iola square last week, and had a great time doing so despite the rain.

This week, they’re helping the local Rotary club with recycling projects.

They’ve also done gardening, cleaned houses, worked on sidewalks and more.

Iolan Bob Hawk brought the group out to his farm, where they

helped Bob and his daughter Angela do some heavy lifting and other tasks.

What comes next is anybody’s guess, but the trio said they’re eager to help and continue interacting with the community.

“We’ll do whatever we can.”

EDUARDO, David and Tiago came to the U.S. for a number of reasons, one being that it’s difficult to play sports at a high level in Brazil while

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also attending college.

So far, they’ve been really impressed with the academic and sports facilities here, and noted how many great teachers and coaches they’ve had.

One standout, they said, was ACC instructor Tracy Lee, from whom the trio all took Freshman Composition.

Outside of school and sports, there isn’t much remaining free time, but they all enjoy playing video games, where their favorites are Call of Duty and FIFA Soccer.

After ACC, all three student-athletes look to transfer to a four-year college or university, and pursue lucrative careers — in particular, so that they can help their families back home in Brazil.

“One U.S. dollar can buy six of our own money,” they said, and highlighted the economic opportunities available in the U.S. Tiago wants to become a chemical engineer, and David and Eduardo both plan to go into business.

Having just completed their first full year at ACC, they’re already

eager to start up again, and they’ll soon have the opportunity, as training for soccer begins in a month and a half.

That said, all three young men said they miss Brazil, especially the food.

They were particularly keen to get some authentic Brazilian barbecue and acai, a thick and delicious purple fruit drink.

Perhaps not surprisingly, they also said they miss the Latina girls in Brazil, and what they described as a “closeness” among the people there.

By contrast, the group was chagrined to say that, while in rural America they’d been subject to a fair amount of racism, especially when speaking Portuguese in public.

“We’re not monsters,” they said. “We’re humans!”

“We’re just here to help ourselves and help our families like everybody else.”

Nonetheless, “we’ve still met a lot of nice people,” the group said, and continue to look forward to meeting even more while further connecting with the Iola community.

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Public health officials unfairly targeted for decisions Everyone wants to be the bearer of good news. But these days the pickings are slim if you happen to be a public health officer.

Rebecca Johnson, director of the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department, had the unpleasant task this week of issuing written orders to area residents who have refused to self-quarantine after they tested positive for COVID-19.

Up to now, Johnson said residents in the department’s four-county area have cooperated with the advice to self-isolate for 14 days if diagnosed with the highly contagious virus.

But when informed of their diagnoses, several individuals in Bourbon County refused.

Johnson is left with no choice but to now threaten misdemeanor charges against the individuals.

Let’s hope it ends there.

ALL ACROSS the country, public health professionals are coming under attack for carrying out their duties to protect the public’s health.

Ms. Johnson and fellow

Susan Lynn Register editor health directors follow the guidelines set forth by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for what have become sometimes highly contentious decisions such as closing certain businesses and requesting that we wear face masks and practice social distancing in order to curb the spread of the virus.

It’s a thankless job these days that, incredibly, has become a dangerous one.

Reports of threats and violence against these public health officials are on the rise, including being heckled at public meetings, people calling for their resignations, and worse.

In Rio Grande County, Colorado, the entire staff of its

Rebecca Johnson, left, director of the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department, Dr. Amy Acton, the former health director for Ohio, and Emily Brown, former health director for Rio Grande County in Colorado, are just three of the many public health officials doing their best to serve the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. public health department was threatened on Facebook with the reference, “bodies swinging from trees.” And instead of backing up Director Emily Brown’s decision to temporarily shutter certain operations, its county commissioners fired her.

In Ohio, Health Director Amy Acton had armed protestors come to her home, not once, but several times.

In California, Orange County’s health director, Dr. Nichole Quick, received sev-

eral threats in response to her order that citizens wear face masks.

“It’s a very stressful position,” she told the Associated Press. “There have been multiple staff that have received threats and each one of those is reviewed by law enforcement. We take them very seriously.”

Quick is the seventh senior health official to resign in California since the pandemic began. Ohio’s Acton has also stepped down.

Who could blame them?

ALL THIS makes me wonder how did orders meant to protect public health come to be seen as a restriction of our rights or liberties? And what has happened to working for the better good?

In my opinion, Ms. Johnson and her crews deserve our praise, not scorn. Go to www.sekmchd.com to learn more about their wonderful services. A thank you note also seems appropriate.

Moderate Republicans a rare breed

Eating crow is no picnic

The 2020 elections for the Kansas legislature could be perilous for moderate Republicans. Their political relevance is at stake, with huge implications for Kansas politics.

Most “moderate” Republican lawmakers in Topeka are actually pretty conservative.

Most typically vote against abortion access, LGBT equality, and firearms regulations.

Most voted with conservatives to limit Governor Laura Kelly’s Covid-19 emergency powers. Most typically vote with conservatives on procedure to block Democratic policy ideas.

Instead, Medicaid expansion, taxes, the budget, and education typically divide moderate and conservative Republicans lately. Conservatives tend to view the Sam Brownback policy legacy more favorably than moderates, but also realize Brownback himself is politically toxic.

Moderate Republicans prospered in 2016 when they had Brownback to run against, but suffered losses in 2018 House primaries.

Moderate Republican senators from that 2016 wave face their first reelection this year. Can they win Republican voters again without Brownback looming?

Moderate Republicans have two key electoral challenges facing them lately.

First, their traditional voter base of higher income, higher education whites is disappearing from Republican primaries. Since 2000, whites with college degrees have been trending Democratic, whereas those with-

Several times I’ve figuratively eaten crow. One time I literally dined on one of the birds.

But first, the backstory.

When I was in my early teens in the 1950s, corn was picked on the ear, not shelled as with today’s sophisticated combines. For whatever reasons, things sometimes went awry and ears were left in the field.

Occasionally, farmers picked up some for feed, but I doubt any did so to enhance the harvest.

A fellow named John Crawford was famous for tramping through area cornfields, gunny sack in hand, picking up leavings. He may have sold some, but mainly, if memory serves, he used the grain to feed hogs he kept at his place on the south side of town.

John also was among the first serious recyclers. He liberated metal from the landfill — it was called a dump then — and latched onto anything worth toting home.

Cutting to the chase, I had seen a beautiful Belgium-made Browning lightweight 12 gauge, complete with gold trigger, at a gun shop in Fort Scott. Sporting an improved cylinder choke, it was the perfect quail gun.

Cost was $135. I put my mind to work figuring out how to accumulate that much cash, better than a week’s pay for most breadwinners at the time.

I mowed yards with an old reel-type mower and did odd jobs. My bank account grew slowly, but not to my liking.

So, I took a hint from John.

A survey of several farmers, friends of my dad and

Patrick Miller Insight Kansas

out have been trending Republican. Even in Kansas, the education gap is a bigger partisan divide among whites than the gender gap.

College-educated whites gravitate toward suburbia and small cities. In these communities, many voters who once supported moderates in Republican primaries now skip those primaries and vote Democratic.

In populous Johnson County, for example, this realignment has hit moderate Republicans hard recently — losses to conservatives in primaries and to Democrats in general elections, and several party switches among lawmakers. Moderate Republicans there can no longer rely on an outdated Y2K status quo where Democrats play second fiddle to them.

Second, rural Kansas has become more Republican.

But in many parts of rural Kansas where the primary is now the key election, moderate Republicans have traditionally been weak and reluctant to contest primaries.

This has advantaged conservatives.

Take Southeast Kansas.

Voters there have veered sharply Republican lately as working class whites realign to the Republicans and increasingly prioritize cultural over economic issues. But despite rising Republican for-

tunes there, moderates hardly contest primaries. The net result: many rural districts that once reliably sent moderate Democrats to Topeka now reliably send conservative Republicans.

Moderates have fared better in central and western Kansas, but could suffer substantial setbacks there this August.

Why does this matter? Rural and small town Kansas is the main battleground for August Republican primaries. Moderate Republicans are largely on the defense there, especially in Senate races. If conservatives flip those rural seats from moderates in primaries, that likely guarantees conservative gains in the legislature.

Democrats are gunning for legislative gains in November — mostly against conservatives — when the action shifts to suburbs and small cities.

However, even if Democrats gain seats in November, the Kansas legislature could actually become more conservative in 2021 if moderate Republicans are decimated in rural Kansas primaries.

Even with Democratic gains, it could become harder to pass Medicaid expansion or prevent conservatives from resuscitating Brownback-era policies. Topeka could become even more gridlocked.

Moderate Republicans face an immense test in 2020.

Their fate in primaries — typically low turnout events — could substantially reshape politics in Topeka and affect the lives of all Kansans. The test date of Aug. 4 is approaching rapidly.

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granddad, opened cornfields to hands-on harvest after combines had mowed through the stalks and left ears behind.

Most weekends for two falls when the weather cooperated, I hitched a ride to one of the fields with several gunny sacks and began walking back and forth to collect lost ears. When a sack was a third full or more, I’d leave it sitting — its weight slowed my progress — and went to the next.

During the day I’d combine the sacks. Back in town I’d sell the corn for a few dollars at the elevator and add the bounty to my savings.

Eventually, I had nearly enough for the shotgun. Dad added a bit as well, and it became mine.

One day the next summer, I was walking along Coal Creek with a couple buddies, and had the gun along.

Several crows flew over, I couldn’t resist.

“You have to eat what you get,” was the challenge from one of my friends.

I skinned the breast, sliced off a couple hunks of meat with a pocket knife and cooked it over a fire we started with matches.

Steeling myself, I bit into a chunk of the meat. I remember it well. Unless you’re starving, it’s a meal best avoided.

How to contact USD 257’s elected officials

Jennifer Coltrane Email: jennifer.coltrane@ usd257.org

Doug Dunlap Email: doug.dunlap@usd257. org

Jerad Larkey Email: jerad.larkey@usd257. org

Tony Leavitt Email: tony.leavitt@usd257. org

Jennifer Taylor Email: jennifer.taylor@ usd257.org

Nancy Toland Email: nancy.toland@usd257. org

Dan Willis Email: dan.willis@usd257.org

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Rotary Club. The meeting was held in the auditorium of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center in order to ensure proper social distancing.

All but a few of the 50 attendees wore face masks, including Moran.

“I take this virus seriously,” he said.

For those who refuse to wear face masks, Moran had little patience.

“When someone tells me they are willing to take the risk of catching the virus by not wearing a mask, I’m here to remind them, we are not wearing masks to protect ourselves, but to protect others. The benefit accrues to those you come in contact with.”

“People have told me that if they die from the virus, it’s God’s will, but they are not going to wear a mask. I would say the freedoms we have as Americans come with responsibilities.

We each should be doing everything we can to make our cities and towns as safe as possible.”

The longer the pandemic holds the United States in its grasp, the longer the economy will stall, he said.

Such a projection is troublesome.

“We do not have enough government programs, or enough government money, to keep the economy going, to keep our country strong, in the absence of an economy that’s working. So moving people back to an economy that’s working is hugely important. But that can only happen if people take responsibility for their behaviors and conduct themselves in a way that does not spread the virus.”

US ill-prepared for pandemic

Moran said the United States was caught “flat-footed” in its abil-

lated to healthcare, to locate here.”

Moran said that he has been working with Iola native David Toland, now Kansas Secretary of Commerce, to work toward such ends.

Social unrest

Sen. Jerry Moran receives a T-shirt from Larry Manes of Moran (the town), noting the latitude and longitude of the Allen County community that shares his surname. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER

People have told me that if they die from the virus, it’s God’s will, but they are not going to wear a mask. I would say the freedoms we have as Americans come with responsibilities.

Sen. Jerry Moran

ity to deal with the pandemic. “We were not prepared,” he said, adding that the virus has shown how heavily dependent the United States is on other countries to provide protective gear and prescription drugs.

“We ought not to rely on China or Honduras or anyone else to provide us with hospital gowns, masks, gloves and prescription drugs.

Our supply chain needs to be closer to home,” he said.

Moran related the frustration of health care facilities in need of PPE, only to be told they were sitting on some loading dock on the West Coast. Another issue complicating the

situation was that sometimes the equipment coming from overseas was of such quality that it did not meet federal standards and could not be used.

“That is not a situation we ever want to find ourselves in again,” he said.

The country’s lack of adequate technology in regards to education and healthcare has also been laid bare by the pandemic, he said.

“I’m a believer in rural Kansas. And I want to increase the chances that future generations will be able to thrive in communities like Iola,” noted Moran.

To further that goal, rural communities need better access to health-

care and education services via broadband and other technologies.

“We learned with COVID-19 that we are woefully inadequate in providing broadband services to many sectors across the country, including those in Kansas,” he said.

Telehealth — doctors and mental health providers communicating via the internet — is critical to our wellbeing, he added.

In regards to education, Moran said, “I’m not convinced that all students are able to get the education they need” with distance learning.

When schools were shuttered during the pandemic, it created

many hardships.

“I know of students who were trying to learn but instead were saddled with the responsibility of caring for their younger siblings while their parents are away at work.

We need students to be back in the classroom,” he said.

Moran is hopeful the country is on track to avoiding a resurgence in cases this fall. “We need to be doing everything we can to increase the chances that our schools can open,” he said.

Silver lining

While heavily populated states such as New York, Florida, Texas and California are being overwhelmed by the pandemic, Moran says Kansas is at somewhat an advantage, “which we always believe, but perhaps the rest of the country doesn’t.”

“The isolation that people sometimes complain about — so far away, so far removed, not enough people, not enough things to do — has been a positive factor. And it’s a selling feature we need to use to recruit and encourage more manufacturing, especially that re-

When asked by Iolan John McRae about the social unrest the country is experiencing, Moran said, “I believe it’s a consensus of all Americans that George Floyd did not receive the treatment he deserved.

It was wrong.”

As for national reforms of the country’s law enforcement system, Moran admitted the need to address racial inequality, but deferred from endorsing any concrete measure other than to encourage police departments “to behave in ways that exhibit the conduct that we all want.”

He hinted that “outside forces, the Russians, are trying to tear us apart through social media.”

“You can be for racial equality without tearing down buildings.

I have no doubt there are foreign powers that are taking advantage of the current situation by trying to tear us apart as a society. You can be for racial equality and not be for burning down buildings.”

Moran’s answer to the discord is for Americans to take responsibility for their thoughts and deeds.

“I think we overemphasize politics in thinking that it is the savior of our world. I’m of the belief that we spend too little time on the heart, and overemphasize how much we can change the world at the ballot box.

While public service and policy are important, that’s not what we need right now, and yet that’s what everybody is focusing on.”

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to toss over your lap in front of the TV on a cold winter’s night.

Rather, all 24 are queen-size bedspreads, designed and handstitched by Lee. No two are alike, aside from one aspect.

Each was meticulously stitched to Lee’s exacting demands — embroidered pieces of art, if you will, bedecked with a dazzling kaleidoscope of colorful fabrics and designs, “You notice if something’s not right,” she said. Each piece is laid out perfectly, from stem to stern.

To ensure fairness, the grandkids will draw numbers out of a bowl, then get the corresponding numbered quilt from Lee’s collection in her basement.

“That way, nobody gets their feelings hurt,” she chuckled.

Was it difficult completing such a Herculean task?

Not really, “but I hurried,” she laughed. “It’s fun, and I was making something to give to the kids.”

THE GIFTS are possible because of Lee’s lifelong passion as a seamstress.

“I don’t really know” what got her started, Lee noted, other than she learned the craft from her mother. “I remember JC Penney’s used to have some pretty, pretty sheets, more than white or plain colors.”

The multi-colored fabrics were ideal for quilt tying.

Her mother, the late Florence Hay, also was an avid quilter, Lee recalled, and like her daughter, would give quilts as gifts. Perhaps that was the inspiration.

Lee was born near Humboldt, then at 2 years old, moved with her family to the Diamond District in northern Allen County. She

Joyce Lee of LaHarpe will give quilts she’s made to each of her 24 grandkids at a family celebration next week, in honor of her 80th birthday. At right, Lee holds a quilt her mother made for her more than 60 years ago. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN lived there until marrying Harry Lee Jr. of LaHarpe in December 1958.

(Lee still has a quilt her mother made for her shortly before her wedding, a piece adorned with 12 flowers, one for each month.)

The Lees’ oldest daughter, Cathy, was born two years later. Six more children followed over the following 17 years.

With each, Lee decided to leave them a piece of her embroidered legacy, first by making a quilt with each of the 50 state birds; then came one like her mother made years before, with the flowers of the month. Then another.

Then another.

Lest one child feel left out, Lee made a point of making additional quilts for each.

“By the time I was done, each kid had six or seven quilts,” she laughed.

Since then, the Lee family has grown by 24 grandkids, ranging from 10 to 40 years old — the ones getting these quilts — and 20 great-grandchildren.

AS HER children grew up and moved out, Lee’s passion remained.

And without her kids around to receive her gifts, Lee’s quilts soon began to accumulate.

Some she keeps on display in her house.

Others she’d give away, including Harry’s favorite, that was donated for a fundraiser.

“A few years ago, she made a fabric display of American flags,” Harry recalled. ‘It was just an absolutely gorgeous piece.”

But mostly, the pieces were carefully folded and stacked on a pool table in the family’s basement.

Then came Harry’s suggestion a couple years back. Why not give those quilts to the grandkids?

Lee did the math, and quickly realized she had her 80th birthday coming soon.

But she’d need to do several more quilts first.

In 2019, she did 10 from start to finish.

“I worked at it,” she recalled. “At one point I had three quilts at the quilters getting finished up, and I was working on another one. I didn’t want it to come down to the last minute.”

She finished her final piece in March, with three months to spare.

All carry Lee’s signature and completion date on the back.

“I don’t think I did that with the first ones I made, but once I started doing the piece quilts someone said you ought to be putting your name

and dates on them,” she recalled.

Her “workshop” consists of a sewing machine next to containers of supplies and fabrics in the corner of the family’s dining room. “All kinds of ‘knickknackies,’” she calls them.

The simplicity of her work environs helps keep Lee focused.

“I saw a lady who has a humongous sewing room,” she said, almost incredulously.

“This makes me make sure I have everything picked up,” she laughed.

STILL today, Lee carves out idle time to work on more quilts.

She is part of a church sewing club, “whenever we can get together, not as much because of this crazy COVID stuff,” she said. She’ll still check her various Facebook friends for unique patterns and materials.

She’ll make an occasional trip to her favorite shops in Missouri

occasionally as well.

Still, summer isn’t as productive in the sewing room, she admits, because she’s usually tending to her impressive garden. “The deer are doing a number on the corn this year, though,” she said.

And the fall’s primary household task is canning and freezing her home-grown produce.

That leaves the cold winter months when she’s most active.

“Of course, she has to stop and cook me some meals,” Harry chides.

“And she likes making homemade ice cream.

And I like eating it.”

The good-natured ribbing is a constant in the Lee union, now nearing its 62nd year.

“We’re a team,” Harry said. “We come as a set.”

Find one at some public gathering, and invariably the other is alongside.

Even when Harry was a member of the USD 257 Board of Education, attending twice-monthly meetings, Joyce was usually in the audience, with a needle and thread.

“Tea towels,” she recalled. “I did those because they were easy to take with me.”

SO HOW much time and money goes into making a queen-sized quilt?

Harry calculated the math, the price of the materials, plus the weeks on end in the form of sweat equity, sewing fine stitching, then turning the completed piece to the quilters to complete the task.

He estimated $300 to $400 for each piece.

But it’s more than that, the couple agreed.

“I think they’ll appreciate it,” Harry said.

“It’s a labor of love.”

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Red Devils’ athletic calendar undergoes changes for 2020-21 school year

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

Davi Studart takes a corner kick for the Red Devils last season.

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The National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) released its plan to resume competition in the fall on June 19, making a direct impact on Allen Community College.

ACC athletic director and men’s head soccer coach Doug Desmarteau sat down with Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) officials and other athletic directors from across the conference via Zoom earlier this week.

Due to COVID-19, each

sport’s schedule for the 202021 school year has been reduced by 10% for athlete safety, and to reduce costs across the conference.

Soccer loses two games and one scrimmage, volleyball three fall dates and one spring date, cross country one meet, basketball three games and one scrimmage, track one meet, baseball two fall games and six spring games, and softball loses three spring dates along with one fall date.

“A lot of the games we were losing are the ones that are far away,” Desmarteau said. “We were going to play two games in Minnesota, but I’m not sure

it’s that smart to take two busses full of kids up to Minnesota during this.”

ACC basketball will likely come earlier than usual, with practice slated to start on Sept. 14 rather than Oct. 1.

The Red Devils’ date to start competition will fall on Oct 16, two weeks earlier than the norm.

The season will continue until the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, with the next game coming on Jan. 9. Many colleges, even some in the KJCCC, have decided to end the first semester at ThanksSee ACC | Page B3

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Mason earns G-League MVP honor

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in play that was mishandled

by SEK’s second baseman, which allowed Eli Smith to level the score at 3-3. Leonard followed up Curry with his second home run of the day, this time a two-run shot to left center field.

Zane Whitney capped Iola’s scoring in the second with an RBI double, giving the Indians a 6-3 lead after two.

Curry extended the Indians’ lead in the third, notching a two-RBI double to make the score 9-3. Leonard earned

Former University of Kansas guard Frank Mason III, now playing for the Wisconsin Herd, is the 2019-20 NBA G League Most Valuable Player.

Mason, 26 earned the honor in a vote by the league’s 28 head coaches and general managers.

Mason was selected in the second round of the 2017 NBA draft after earning consensus college player of the year honors in his senior season at KU. He averaged a G Leaguehigh 26.4 points plus 5 assists and 3.4 rebounds in 23 games with the Herd. Wisconsin went 18-5 with Mason in the lineup and had the league’s best record (33-10).

Wisconsin Herd guard Jaylen Adams and Maine Red Claws guard Tremont Waters finished second and third, respectively, in the voting.

Mason hit 50.4% of his shots last season, including 42.5% of his 3s. He made 81% of his free throws. He and Stephan Hicks of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants were the only players in the G League to record a 50/40/80 shooting season.

Mason scored 30 or more points in seven games. The 5-11 native of Petersburg, Va., scored a season-high 44 against the Grand Rapids Drive on Feb. 19. He had 36 points on 14-of-17 shooting against the Drive on Feb. 23. He hit 16 of 18 shots and scored 35 points against Delaware in the penultimate game of the season, which was shortened because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Asked by the Oshkosh Northwestern reasons for Mason’s stellar season, for-

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Jackson Aikins delivers from the mound against the SEK Hooks of Parsons on Thursday at Riverside Park. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

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It was another day at the office for the AA Iola Indians at Riverside Park.

The Indians added two more wins to stay perfect at 8-0 on the season against the SEK Hooks of Parsons. Iola’s bats carried their weight, leading the Indians to 12-4 and 13-1 run-rule victories.

Even though the Indians remain undefeated, head coach Jason Bauer believes the team still has more to give.

“I wasn’t happy with our lack of focus,” Bauer said. “It is just small things that you expect them to already know, like base running errors — but overall I am happy with the two wins.”

After a one-run first for the Hooks to start game 1, Cal Leonard leveled the score in the bottom-half with a twoout solo home run just over the left field fence.

Jackson Aikins received his first start on the mound of the summer, walking eight batters despite earning five strikeouts and only allowing

one earned run.

“He just needs to pound the zone and let the defense play,” Bauer said. “We were trying to save some pitching for the weekend, so he overall did what we needed him to do today.”

The Hooks tallied two unearned runs in the second inning off a misplayed fly ball

by Ryker Curry. The heavy wind saw the ball pulled in from the outfield to the infield, leaving the Iola shortstop in quicksand.

Curry made up for it in the bottom-half, putting a ball

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COVID-19 is a wily virus; can humans outsmart it?

By MELISSA HEALY Los Angeles Times

To prevent a dangerous new virus from having its way with humankind, you might take a page from the Chinese warrior king Sun Tzu, and think like the enemy.

Imagine you are a coronavirus, in a form never before seen by humans. Your goal is simple but wildly ambitious: invade and hijack the cells of a new host and multiply for as long it takes to establish your spawn in at least one other new host.

Repeat until there are no humans left to infect.

Since its emergence in Sun Tzu’s homeland, the coronavirus known to scientists as SARSCoV-2 has gone about its task with vigor and success. It has jumped national borders with ease, infecting more than 9 million people around the world and killing at least 470,000 in about seven months.

The roughly 7.7 billion people who have evaded infection so far seem to be squarely in its sights.

But humankind has a few tricks of its own.

In fits and starts, public health officials have mustered their citizens to shun the kinds of gatherings that provide a virus rich opportunities to spread. Scientists have peered into the coronavirus’s genome to unlock secrets about where it came from, how it has evolved and what it will take to thwart it.

Now it’s a race to see which side gains the upper hand.

Viruses are not as smart as humans, but they are much more patient, said Harvard University epidemiologist William Hanage. And this virus’s track record does not bode well for a strategy of ignoring it in hopes it will burn itself out, he added.

“That would be waiting for the virus to help us,” Hanage said.

“That’s not a good idea.”

The imperatives of survival make a successful virus an unpredictable guest — cruel to some, kinder to others, and capable of evolving new strategies as its pool of potential targets thins.

“There’s no reward for a virus lineage to be easy on its host,” said Frederick M. Cohan, an evolutionary biologist at Wesleyan University.

It must not kill him immediately, as many early forms of the Ebola virus did to their victims. Such outbreaks are destined to fizzle.

But a successful virus is fine with leaving its victim a depleted shell, Cohan said: As long as it has succeeded in making him sick enough to draw others to his bedside where they’re exposed to his bodily fluids or respiratory droplets, it will live to infect another victim.

It need not be choosy about its victims, at least initially. It can spare the young and healthy and go after the weak and infirm first, as

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But experts believe that a virus that stands the test of time will ease up as its potential hosts dwindle and public health precautions take hold.

To continue to spread under such circumstances, a virus must leave many of its victims in good enough shape to move around. It could attack younger hosts, who may not get as sick but will be better spreaders.

It could be transmitted by people who don’t even realize they’re infected.

The coronavirus has done all of these, to great effect.

Many viruses have an inherently uphill battle to climb: As they make their way through a population, the victims they infect will either die or recover. And those who recover will typically emerge with some immunity.

So after its initial romp through a target-rich environment, a novel virus finds its potential victims have dwindled. People vulnerable to infection are not so close together anymore. That’s a problem for a respiratory virus like SARS-CoV-2 that can only spread if potential hosts are clustered together. (Many other viruses spread in water, or in the bellies of mosquitoes, fleas and birds, so social distancing doesn’t counter those as well.)

An overly aggressive virus may become a victim of its own success, infecting so many people so fast that it creates what epidemiologists call “herd immunity.”

In that scenario, the uninfected targets that remain are just too far

Members of the American Red Cross remove Spanish influenza victims from a house at Etzel and Page avenues in 1918. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FILE PHOTO/TNS apart for the pathogen to keep spreading.

Of the seven coronaviruses known to make humans sick, at least four have found a way to circumvent herd immunity and sustain themselves for the long haul. These viruses, all which cause variations on the common cold, leave most of their victims with immunity that wanes in little more than a year. The pool of people who are susceptible to becoming hosts is continuously renewed as infected people’s immune defenses “forget” the virus that has made them ill before.

No one knows if the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 shares that trait. But a welter of studies suggests that, in many who were infected, immunity is either weak or transient.

As a matter of evolutionary biology, there’s another way to maintain an inexhaustible supply of potential hosts: If a virus can mutate fast enough, and in specific ways, it can elude recognition by an immune system it has encountered it before.

The new coronavirus mutates steadily because its genetic instructions are encoded in RNA. Compared to a DNA virus like the one that causes measles, an RNA virus is simpler, and less likely to correct the mistakes that accrue each time it replicates.

Most of the mutations are tiny substitutions of nucleotides that have no effect on the virus’s behavior. But over time, those accumulated errors can change the way it looks to an immune system, or how it interacts with its environment or its hosts. And every once in a while, a mutation (or series of them) hands the virus a sudden advantage.

The 1918 influenza pandemic took off after a chance mutation turbocharged its reproductive machinery. Patients got sicker more quickly,

and with their immune systems fully mobilized, they expelled more virus when they coughed and sneezed — infecting more of the people around them.

Scientists have watched the new coronavirus’s genetic makeup change, prompting some to assert that more virulent and transmissible strains are circulating.

Those claims have been fiercely debated. But SARS-CoV-2’s knack for shape-shifting is what transformed it from a virus that thrived in bats and possibly pangolins into one capable of infecting humans.

Additional mutations could bring new challenges for humans — or new opportunities. If we’re lucky, a mutation could make the virus less infectious, or less lethal.

But humans, too, have appropriated some tricks to counter viral strategies like these.

Long before our ancestors understood that germs spread disease, they realized that creating distance between people resulted in fewer of them getting sick.

During an outbreak, those with means fled cities for their homes in the country. Those who stayed avoided the marketplace. Public spectacles were canceled. It was the beginning of the public health strategy we now call social distancing.

The coronavirus needs people to jostle close to each other and touch common surfaces in order to spread from person to person. Social distancing alters the environment to mimic the effects of herd immunity.

The other way to deny a virus new hosts is to put more people in the “recovered category” — a status that more than 4.6 million people now have.

You do that by letting the pandemic run its course, assuming that immunity will last. Or

you can make a vaccine.

Allowing the coronavirus to have its way with humanity would be a disaster on a scale somewhere between disastrous and unimaginable: Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch has estimated that with minimal human intervention, SARS-CoV-2 would plausibly infect 20% to 60% of all adults — between 1.5 billion and 4.5 billion people.

Even if it ends up being no more deadly than the seasonal flu — a highly optimistic assumption — between 1.5 million and 4.5 million would die.

A widely deployed vaccine could provide herd immunity, stopping the virus in its tracks and resulting in far fewer deaths. But that will take time. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that parallel efforts to design, test and produce many vaccines will probably yield at least one by year’s end.

Until then, this wily foe has time on its side and some proven tricks to sustain itself.

While the coronavirus may not touch every person on the planet, it appears to have gained the foothold it needs to keep trying, said Columbia University virologist Angela Rasmussen. Like many flu viruses, it could mutate just enough from year to year to seem new to our immune systems each time it comes around.

It could also change in ways that make it more like the four other coronaviruses that have infected humans for eons: killing few while making most people just sick enough to pass it on.

From a virus’s point of view, the definition of success is “to become the common cold,” Cohan said. Along with many microbiologists, he suspects this virus has what it takes to go the distance. Humans could outsmart it with a good vaccine, though the immunity it offers may be only temporary.

And many who do not fear catching the virus would probably skip it anyway.

He hopes his suspicions are wrong. But a career of studying disease-causing microbes has been chastening, he said.

“We’re not smart enough to know what they’re going to do,” Cohan said. “And if we think we know, they’ll just surprise us.”

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Vince Carter, 43, retires after record 22 NBA seasons

By TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press

Vince Carter made his retirement official on Thursday, announcing on his podcast that his 22-year NBA career, the longest in league history, has come to an end.

The announcement was largely a formality because the 43-year-old Carter had said many times over the course of this season that this would be his last in the NBA. He became the first NBA player to appear in four different decades.

“Vince Carter has made an indelible impact on the NBA with his remarkable skill and enduring commitment,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who lauded Carter as “a true ambassador of the game.”

Carter appeared in 1,541 NBA games, behind only Robert Parish (1,611) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1,560) on the league’s all-time list. He started his career with Toronto, then played for Vince Carter of the USA rises up for a dunk against France at the Sydney ShowNew Jersey, Orlando, ground Dome during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia on Phoenix, Dallas, Mem- Sept. 25, 2000. DARREN MCNAMARA/ALLSPORT/GETTY IMAGES/TNS phis, Sacramento and spent his final two seathe “Winging It” pod- to superstar and eight- lost on Atlanta fans, sons with Atlanta. cast. “So for me, it’s just time All-Star to Twy- who chanted “We want Carter’s first season kind of a unique situa- man-Stokes Teammate Vince!” repeatedly was the 1998-99 cam- tion.” of the Year and valuable with 19.5 seconds left in paign, which was shortCarter scored 25,728 role player,” the Hawks overtime and with the ened to 50 games because points in his career, 19th- said in a statement.

Knicks’ victory clearly of labor strife. His final most in NBA history.

Carter’s last game was decided. Carter checked season was shortened The Hawks quickly March 11, a contest the back into the game at by the coronavirus pan- lauded Carter for what Hawks lost at home in that point, inbounded demic, and the Hawks he’s done, not just in two overtime to New York. the ball to Trae Young, will not be part of the 22 years with Atlanta but By the time that game then trailed the play as teams headed to the Dis- over the totality of his was winding down, the the Hawks headed downney complex near Orlan- career.

NBA already had an- court. do, Florida, next month “Throughout his his- nounced that it was susYoung flipped the ball for the planned resump- toric 22-year journey cov- pending the season at back to Carter, who took tion of NBA play. ering an unprecedented the conclusion of that an uncontested 3-pointer.

“It’s kind of a cool sit- four different decades, night’s play after Utah The shot went in, Carter uation for me because I his evolving career arc center Rudy Gobert be- threw his arms skyward, came into the league on was perhaps like none came the first player in and the clock ran out on a shortened season and other in league history the league known to test the game a few seconds I walk away from the — from Top 5 Draft Pick positive for the coronavi- later. league on a shortened to Rookie of the Year to rus.

What many suspected season,” Carter said on Slam Dunk Champion The moment was not would be the case that

night became reality: The clock had run out on Carter’s career, too.

“There were times, probably in April, I was like, ‘Man, I wish this didn’t happen like that,’” Carter said. “And then, after a while, I was kind of like, ‘It is what it is.’

Once I was able to kind of put that aside and say: ‘Retire, Vince. You can go and golf now,’ it’s been easier.”

Carter was an eighttime All-Star selection, was rookie of the year in 1999, won the slam dunk contest in 2000 and helped USA Basketball win gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics — highlighted by his dunk over 7-foot-2 French center Frederic Weis — and the 2003 FIBA Americas tournament. He played college basketball for

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giving. This schedule shakeup makes it such that players will not have to worry about quarantining after returning home for Thanksgiving, along with missing games in early December.

Desmarteau admits that the KJCCC is still fine-tuning the details of the 2020-21 schedule.

“It is not official, but all the athletic directors are on board,” Desmarteau said. “But like I’ve said, these things change constantly.”

ACC’s fall athletes will arrive earlier than usual to allow time for a two-week quarantine if the player is coming from a KDHE-listed hotspot. There is a chance that some of ACC’s athletes might not make it on campus because of COVID-19.

Last year, Desmarteau had around 40 international players on his Red Devil soccer team.

When the pandemic broke out in March, some players decided to stay on campus, others ventured to different states and a few fled to their native countries.

Many of Desmarteau’s incoming freshmen are finding it hard to obtain their student visas in order to make their way to ACC. “A couple of my Brazilian guys are saying they are not getting into the Embassy, and they won’t be open un-

til the middle of July,” Desmarteau said. “So, anyone that needs to get their visa going forward, probably is not going to get in by fall, but country by country is different.”

Also, on June 22 President Donald Trump issued a proclamation banning individuals into the U.S. if they had been in the United Kingdom, Schengen countries, Iran, China or Brazil.

Desmarteau planned for the possibility of athletes not being able to arrive for the fall sea-

son.

With the fear that many of those players might not show, Desmarteau recruited more players within the U.S. just in case.

As a whole, it was a great recruiting year for ACC, and Desmarteau believes that the pandemic played into the Red Devils’ hands.

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Desmarteau emphasized that he is still looking for options to test athletes, hoping a test would remove the need for a two-week quarantine. ACC is currently looking at what tests will be most effective for the right price.

“We are still working on the testing thing,” Desmarteau said. “We are going to take all the precautions we can. As a college, we have to provide safety for our kids to come.”

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Carter said he will still play the game of basketball — for fun. It has long been expected that television networks will pursue him as an analyst, something he’s dabbled in at NBA Summer League in recent years.

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his fourth RBI of the game to score Curry, giving Iola a seven-run lead entering the fourth.

Nathan Louk replaced Aikins in the fourth to pitch the final two innings. Louk surrendered two hits, allowed no runs, and earned three strikeouts, all coming in the fourth inning.

The Indians closed the door early, earning an eight-run lead after a five run-rule victory.

Leonard secured the win with an RBI single to score Aikins.

Game 2 was more of the same for Iola.

Lefty Casen Barker was chosen for the mound, and silenced the Hooks in his four-inning appearance. Barker picked up 10 strikeouts, allowing five walks, one run in the first, and only two hits.

“He really settled into a groove after walking four guys and a run in the first inning,” Bauer said. “It was nice to see somebody go out there and give us some innings.

He was throwing his fastball, and mixed it in with his curveballs, which had some good bite on them.”

The Indians opened the game with two runs in the first, and continued to build on their lead in the second. RBIs from Leonard, Whitney, Eli Smith, and Brady Wiggin handed Iola a 9-1 lead after two.

The Indians failed to score in the third, but secured the runrule in the fourth with a two-RBI triple from Aikins, who would later score to secure the 13-1 run-rule win.

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Good news: Turns out MLB officials weren’t sitting around on their aspirations the last three months after all!

It may have seemed as if they were just stonewalling the union, but they were also putting together an operations manual on the off chance that everyone snapped to their senses. And not just any operations manual, either. The level of detail in this 101-page puppy, acquired by the Dallas Morning News’ Evan Grant, would put to shame the safety team at a nuclear plant.

Officials hoped these rules and guidelines would “return a sense of normalcy” to our way of life. Only there’s nothing normal about any of this.

Any player who sticks to the guidelines laid out in this manual should get an MVP award. Or at least an Eagle Scout badge.

Consider a day in the life of a big league ballplayer in 2020: First thing he does each morning is ask himself 19 yes-or-no questions as to how he feels. The symptoms range from the usual, such as coughs and shortness of breath, to the esoteric, as in “Rash or ‘COVID toes.’ ” Once he figures out what that means, he takes his temperature.

Twice. Then he asks himself if he’s been in contact with anyone in the previous two weeks who might have COVID-19 or anybody in self-quarantine. He enters his answers on a mobile app.

At the ballpark, he takes the same test all over again, only this time someone else administers it. If he has a temperature higher than 100.4 on either set of tests and any of the symptoms, the informa-

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a Washington Nationals face mask to testify at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Capitol Hill on June 23. KEVIN DIETSC/GETTY IMAGES/TNS tion is relayed to MLB. The symptomatic player then answers more questions. Reveals everyone he’s been close to. Puts on a mask and self-quarantines. If he’s at the park, he goes to a special room and awaits transport to another facility and a round of more stringent tests.

Before a player with a positive test can come back, he must test negative twice at intervals of at least 24 hours and record no fever for the previous 72 hours.

Let’s say our player clears both rounds of tests. He puts on his mask and heads for the clubhouse. Did I mention MLB thinks it’s best if he shows up at the park in uniform? Apparently the less time spent in the clubhouse, the better. This would explain why players are also discouraged from taking showers after the game.

If players insist, club officials are encouraged to keep track of how

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mer KU guard and Herd coach Chase Buford said: “Probably just igniting that fire in him where he knows that’s where he wants to be (NBA).

He came back down after a little injury and time with them (Bucks).

That month of February was just a killer. He was the best player in the G League by far.

“I think his aggressive mindset, when he just

was willing to embrace the fact that, ‘Yeah, I might get knocked down a few times, but if I drive to the basket no one’s going to stop me. No one’s going to stay in front of me. Finish and draw fouls.’ I think when he lost that regard for anything and just started attacking, he became an entire different animal.”

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If this seems a little extreme, they can assign a shower schedule.

Only one person allowed in a whirlpool at a time. Frankly, we thought this was a given.

Once on the field, players don’t have to wear masks, but they must try to remain at least six feet apart at all times.

Players on the inactive roster sit in the stands, also six feet apart. In the dugout, players are discouraged from leaning on dugout railings or ledges unless they have a towel between them and said railings or ledges.

Players are encouraged to remain as stationary as possible in dugouts, so as to maintain proper social distancing. Clubs are encouraged to post signs reminding them. I can see a sign now.

“BE STILL!”

My mother would have loved one of those signs.

Some of this stuff you’ve probably already heard: No high-fives, no fist bumps, no hugs, no spitting, no smokeless tobacco, no sunflower seeds.

Chewing gum, however, is OK. Players are encouraged to wash their hands after every half-inning.

Hand sanitizer will be available in the dugout.

Pitchers warming up in the bullpen will work with their own personal baseballs. They must also bring their own rosin bags to the mound.

Hitters will carry their own pine tar and donut to the on-deck circle. Once finished, they must pick up after themselves.

Mother would have loved this, too.

Baseballs from batting practice will be cycled out and not re-used for five days, and the people who pick them up

must wear clean gloves when doing so.

After a ball has been put in play, it must be exchanged for a new ball. Players are “strongly discouraged” from throwing the ball around the infield after an out.

Players and coaches must make every effort not to touch their faces, even to give signals.

Or wipe away sweat. Or “whistle with their fingers.”

Coaches may not leave their boxes to whisper in a baserunner’s ear. First base will look a lot lonelier this summer. Players may not socialize or fraternize with opponents before, during or after games.

This, from section 5.1.2: “Players or managers who leave their positions to argue with umpires, come within six feet of an umpire or opposing player or manager for the purpose of See MLB | Page B3

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He has averaged 6.5 points and 2.5 assists in 96 games with the Kings and Bucks. He had appeared in six games for Milwaukee this season.

The NBA G League canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season on June 4. The regular season was suspended on March 12 and had been scheduled to conclude on March 28.

“Wisconsin’s offense ran through its talented scorer, which meant Mason’s prowess attracted immense defensive pressure and it was up to him to identify opportunities to put the ball in the basket, and/or when to defer to the other offensive talent around him,” NBA. com’s Keith Schlosser wrote Thursday. “With additional averages of 5.0 assists and 1.1 steals, Mason was an unselfish

player who found ways to hold his own on both ends of the floor.

“Where does Mason go from here? What else will he accomplish? That remains to be seen, but the way he splashed onto the NBA G League scene this season is arguably the best evidence that he’s ready and able to continue making big time contributions, perhaps with the Bucks, sooner than later.”

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argument or engage in altercations on the field are subject to immediate ejection and discipline, including fines and suspensions.”

Billy Martin could not have survived this rule.

Earl Weaver, either.

There will be no pregame handshakes or exchange of lineup cards at the plate. During the national anthem and God Bless America, players not only will stand, they’ll stand at least six feet apart.

Pitchers will not be allowed to lick their fingers at any time. They

will, however, be allowed to carry a moist towelette in their back pocket. Umpires reserve the right to check said towelettes for foreign substances.

No bat boys or bat girls are allowed in the stadium. Mascots are OK, but you get the impression MLB isn’t crazy about it.

Now for the rules on the road.

Once on the plane, according to section 7.2, each member of the traveling party must wear a mask and wipe down all surfaces, “(i.e., both sides of tray tables, armrests, seat belt,

headrest, TV screen and controller, luggage bin opener.)”

If a player must use the restroom, he should close the lid before flushing. If he’s next in line, he should wait “several minutes” before entering the lavatory.

Seemed like a given, too.

If there’s a meal service, he may not eat at the same time someone else in his row is eating.

He may not take subways or city buses or trains to the games. He must walk or drive or hire a private car. If he takes the team bus, he should open a window.

He should also do the same in his hotel room “to the extent such windows are operable.”

Hotels will effectively be sanctuaries. Players can’t eat at restaurants used by the public at all.

Only catered meals at the hotel. Or room service.

Teams are expected to come up with their own code of conduct for the road.

No player from the ’70s would have survived any code.

If all of the above isn’t enough to keep everyone safe, MLB reserves the right to put everyone in a “bubble,”

it’s OK with the union.

For the record, there are also rules for media, who, on the ladder of relevance, come in at least a rung below mascots. No interaction with players, coaches or managers. No media in the clubhouse or on the field at any time whatsoever.

Players will love this.

Media will wear face masks at all times and should wash their hands frequently. Media workspace must be “cleaned and disinfected after every use.”

Come to think of it, this probably should have been a rule already.

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You ready for the Pocono 1,275?

When the 2020 schedule was originally released, this was looking like the most unique race weekend in decades, if not ever. But with the scheduling maneuvers forced on NASCAR by the coronavirus, it now looks like just another overload in an effort to complete the regular season.

Still, though, it’s a lot: ARCA race on Friday, Trucks and Cup on Saturday, Xfinity and Cup on Sunday. The 2021 schedule might feature more than just one of these Cup doubleheaders.

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FIRST GEAR: The race at Talladega Superspeedway turned into a very long, emotional weekend for Bubba Wallace, who was racing in his home state of Alabama.

After the NASCAR Cup Series race was postponed Sunday, somebody on Wallace’s team found a noose in the garage area near his No. 43 Chevy.

NASCAR competitors, who rarely agree on anything, showed their unity by pushing Wallace’s car to the front of the starting grid on pit road.

Wallace was hoping to win and even led a lap late in the race, but had to come to pit road for fuel and finished 14th.

“I know I should have won that damn race,” Wallace said. “We ran out of gas. It’s just the stars didn’t align for us complete, but all in all, we won today. The pre-race deal was probably one of the hardest (emotional) things I’ve ever had to witness in my life.”

SECOND GEAR: The last lap of the Talladega race was insane (as expected). After the white flag was displayed, there were two multi-car crashes, including some pushing and bumping

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at the finish line.

Aric Almirola, who was in the thick of the battle, earned a thirdplace finish, even though his No. 10 Ford was going backwards on the apron of the track.

“When I crossed through the tri-oval, I thought we were going to win the race, I was going so much faster than they were,” he said. “I just barely got clipped

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THIRD GEAR: You blinked, took your eye off the ball and missed

the fact that Talladega represented the halfway point of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season.

Eight drivers, who have scored wins this season, have qualified for the Cup playoffs. That leaves only eight more playoff positions are up for grabs.

If the playoff field was set today, Erik Jones, Austin Dillon, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Ryan Newman would be watching from the sidelines and defending Cup Series champion Kyle Busch would get in on points.

FOURTH GEAR: Pocono Raceway is packing a season’s worth of stock-car racing into

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Those dramatics and sparks are normally reserved for video games, so rank it among the best ever in that department. But also call it fortunate.

It had every opportunity to repeat the near-disaster of the Daytona 500 finish, but the sliding didn’t turn into tumbling. Ryan Blaney was deep in the mix of both, so he’s probably aged a few years since February.

Ken Willis, ken.willis @news-jrnl.com

GODWIN’S PICKS FOR POCONO WINNERS: Race 1 — Brad Keselowski.

Race 2 — Kyle Busch REST OF TOP 5: Race 1 — Ryan Blaney, Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson. Race 2 — Chase Elliott, Matt DiBenedetto, Erik Jones, Tyler Reddick FIRST ONE OUT: Race 1 — Aric Almirola. Race 2 — Brad Keselowski DARK HORSE: Race 1— Tyler Reddick.

Race 2 — Christopher Bell DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: This doubleheader weekend becomes a fixture on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule.