Jaime Harrison, the Democrat difficult Lindsey Graham, introduced his personal plexiglass to the South Carolina Senate debate over the weekend. In
Jaime Harrison, the Democrat difficult Lindsey Graham, introduced his personal plexiglass to the South Carolina Senate debate over the weekend. In Wednesday evening’s vice-presidential debate, Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence might be separated by two sheets of it.
For months, the plexiglass enterprise has been booming for Jim Meadows, who manufactures it from his refrigeration components store in southeast Texas. A staunch supporter of President Trump, Mr. Meadows believes that by promoting it he’s “pandering to the uninformed,” although he’s joyful to have the enterprise.
Orders peaked in the summertime and proceed to trickle in, because the variety of Covid-19 circumstances has climbed previous 810,000 within the state. Only a week or so in the past, he fulfilled an order for 100 sheets for the native college district to put in.
To this point, the president’s sickness has achieved little to alter the partisan view of the pandemic, together with Mr. Meadows’s. He dismisses it as overblown, although greater than 16,000 folks have died in Jefferson County, the place he has lived for many years.
At the same time as Mr. Meadows fulfills orders, he doubts the obstacles do something aside from give some folks a little bit of peace of thoughts.
“I don’t even know what type of madness even introduced this to be,” he stated. “If plexiglass labored, we may have constructed a plexiglass wall round China.”
Although a number of scientific research have proven the effectiveness of face masks in stopping the unfold of coronavirus, there haven’t been comparable findings on plexiglass.
The Occasions first spoke to Mr. Meadows this spring, when the pandemic was most closely felt in city America, the place residents predominantly assist Democrats.
That hole has narrowed significantly, and public polling exhibits widespread assist for masks necessities.
Mr. Meadows, although, stated he refuses to put on a masks at any time — regardless of the native mandate requiring them. When he stopped right into a ironmongery store just lately, he stated one other man took his personal masks off after seeing Mr. Meadows, which he took as an indication of feeling “empowered.”
“I actually assume there’s quite a lot of pointless worry, but when it makes folks really feel good, then superb, they’ll do no matter they need,” he stated. “If you wish to put on a crocheted doily over your face, then try this.”