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In the Covid-19 economy, working par-ents are nonessential. Deb Perelmansays it’s baffling, and untenable. PAGE 1
SUNDAY BUSINESS
You Can Have a Kid, or a Job
Fear of the pandemic led the regime toclose its border with China, pinching itsfew remaining methods of bringing inmuch-needed foreign currency. PAGE 9
INTERNATIONAL 9-14
North Korea’s Painful IsolationAmerica’s founding ideals promiseliberty and equality for all. The realityis a racial hierarchy that has persistedfor centuries, Isabel Wilkerson writes.
THE MAGAZINE
Our Enduring Caste System
Outrage over the George Floyd killinghas led many to call attention to policeabuses in their own countries. PAGE 11
Floyd’s Death Echoes in Africa In 1975, the movie freaked out theworld, scaring us from the water andcreating the summer-blockbuster tem-plate. It was also a warning. PAGE 8
‘Jaws’ Still Has Us Hooked
Post-lockdown, you’ll technically haveto “relearn” to cook each meal, or toexercise regularly, or to read a book aweek. But there are shortcuts. PAGE 3
AT HOME
Hanging On to Good Habits
The Economy We Need PAGE 1
SUNDAY REVIEW Adam Hollingsworth of Chicago tried tospread a positive message on horseback.But a video was misinterpreted. PAGE 2
SUNDAY STYLES
The Dreadhead Cowboy
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A real-world catastrophe has forced usto hit pause on movies featuring capedcrusaders. Maybe that’s good. PAGE 7
ARTS & LEISURE
Superheroes: Who Needs ’Em!
HOUSTON — Over the pastweek, Dr. Aric Bakshy, an emer-gency physician at Houston Meth-odist, had to decide which coro-navirus patients he should admitto the increasingly busy hospitaland which he could safely sendhome.
To discuss questions like these,he has turned to doctors at hospi-tals where he trained in New YorkCity that were overwhelmed bythe coronavirus this spring. Nowtheir situations are reversed.
Thumbing through a dog-earednotebook during a recent shift, Dr.Bakshy counted about a dozenpeople he had treated for coro-navirus symptoms. His col-leagues in Houston had attendedto many more. Meanwhile, friendsat Elmhurst Hospital in Queenstold him that their emergency de-partment was seeing only one ortwo virus patients a day.
“The surge is here,” Dr. Bakshysaid.
As Houston’s hospitals face theworst outbreak of the virus inTexas, now one of the nation’s hotzones, Dr. Bakshy and others areexperiencing some of the samechallenges that their New Yorkcounterparts did just a fewmonths ago and are trying toadapt some lessons from that cri-sis.
Like New York City in March,the Houston hospitals are experi-encing a steep rise in caseloadsthat is filling their beds, stretchingtheir staffing, creating a backlogin testing and limiting the avail-ability of other medical services.Attempts to buy more supplies —including certain protective gear,vital-sign monitors and testing
Virus Inundates Texas, Fed by Abiding Mistrust Of Government Orders
Lessons of New Yorkin Houston’s E.R.s
By SHERI FINK
Health workers in Houston,where cases are spiking.
ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page 6
LUBBOCK, Texas — For awhile, it seemed that the coro-navirus had spared West Texas.Cases were low. Few had died.Concern through the spring wasfocused on getting businessesrunning again.
By mid-June, the Texas Techfootball team returned to campus.Local baseball tournaments re-sumed. Hotels filled up.
Then people started gettingsick.
In Lubbock, a tan city of 250,000with a rollicking college bar scene,more people tested positive forthe virus in the last three weeksthan in the previous three monthscombined. On the day Gov. GregAbbott began to swiftly reopen thestate two months ago, the city re-corded eight positive tests for thevirus. On Wednesday, there were184.
The sudden jump, concentratedamong those in their 20s, reflecteda sharp and uncontrolled rise inthe virus that has hit Texas harderthan many other places in thecountry. Unlike the early weeks ofthe pandemic, when infectionswere concentrated in the state’smainly liberal cities, the virus hasnow reached into the deep-red re-gions of the state that have re-sisted aggressive public healthregulation.
Yet for many conservatives,even those with the virus now attheir door, the resurgence has notchanged opinions so much ashardened them.
For those Texans, trust in gov-ernment is gone, if it was there tobegin with, and that includessome of the state’s top leaders. OnTuesday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ofTexas declared himself tired of Dr.Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top in-fectious disease doctor. “I don’tneed his advice anymore,” Mr.Patrick said.
That sentiment was echoed out-side a popular, newly opened ham-burger restaurant in Wolfforth,Texas, just outside Lubbock,where even Mr. Abbott, a Republi-can, came under harsh criticism.“It seems like he’s been influencedby Fauci and the left,” said MarkStewart, who sat with his wife andchildren and several other fam-ilies at a gathering for locals whohome school.
None in the 18-person group,
Masks? ‘We’re DoneWith All That’
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Continued on Page 8
WASHINGTON — The abruptuprooting of the Republican Na-tional Convention from Charlotteto Jacksonville has created a tan-gled financial predicament forparty officials as they effectivelytry to pay for two big events in-stead of one.
Tens of millions of dollars havealready been spent in a city thatwill now host little more than aG.O.P. business meeting, and do-nors are wary of opening theirwallets again to bankroll a Jack-sonville gathering thrown into un-certainty by a surge in coro-navirus cases.
Organizers are trying to as-suage vexed Republicans who col-lectively gave millions of dollarsfor a Charlotte event that hasmostly been scrapped. The hostcommittee there has spent virtu-ally all of the $38 million it raisedbefore the convention was moved,leaving almost nothing to returnto donors, or to pass on to the new
host city.In Jacksonville, fund-raisers
are describing the process as themost difficult they have ever con-fronted: Florida has been settingdaily records for new virus cases,freezing money as donors waitand worry about the safety risksof the pandemic.
“I don’t want to encourage peo-ple getting sick,” said Stanley S.Hubbard, a Minnesota billionairewho has donated more than $2million to help Republicans, in-cluding President Trump, sincethe beginning of the 2016 election.
Mr. Hubbard, who donated$25,000 to the R.N.C.’s conventionaccount in 2018, is hesitant to giveto the Jacksonville host commit-tee because he thinks it is ill ad-vised to hold the convention in themidst of a pandemic. “Unless thisthing goes away, I think it’s a badchoice,” he said.
The threat of the virus and thecomplicated financial entangle-ments are just the latest problems
Convention Move Gives G.O.P.Financial Headache in 2 Cities
This article is by Annie Karni, Re-becca R. Ruiz and Kenneth P. Vogel.
Continued on Page 20
New York 1
New York10,000
Boston2,000
MiamiHouston
PhoenixDallasSan Diego
Denver
Portland
NewOrleans
Boston 1
Tampa 1
Sarasota 1
Chicago 3Omaha 13
Spokane 4Seattle 13
Portland 2
San Jose 7
SanFrancisco 5
SanFrancisco9,000
Seattle2,000
Chicago3,000
Minneapolis
Vallejo 12
Los Angeles 2
San Diego 1
Madison 1
Salt Lake City 1
Salt Lake City
Phoenix 1
San Antonio 11
NUMBER OF INFECTIONSIN EACHMETRO AREA
1,000500100
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On March 1, there were 88 reported coronavirus cases in the United States.
But researchers estimate that there were actually thousands of hidden infections by that date.
Sources: Estimates are from a Northeastern University modeling team led by Alessandro Vespignani, available only for select cities. Coronavirus case data is from a New York Times database of reports from state and local health agencies and hospitals. THE NEW YORK TIMES
Invisible outbreaks were everywhere, but the warning signs were ignored. We analyzed travel patterns, hidden infections and genetic data to show how the epidemic spun out of control.
A SPECIAL REPORT, PAGES 15-18.
CALW, Germany — As Ger-many emerged from its coro-navirus lockdown in May, policecommandos pulled up outside arural property owned by asergeant major in the specialforces, the country’s most highlytrained and secretive militaryunit.
They brought a digger.The sergeant major’s nickname
was Little Sheep. He was sus-pected of being a neo-Nazi. Buriedin the garden, the police found twokilograms of PETN plastic explo-sives, a detonator, a fuse, anAK-47, a silencer, two knives, acrossbow and thousands ofrounds of ammunition, much of itbelieved to have been stolen fromthe German military.
They also found an SS song-book, 14 editions of a magazine forformer members of the Waffen SSand a host of other Nazi memora-bilia.
“He had a plan,” said Eva Högl,Germany’s parliamentary com-missioner for the armed forces.“And he is not the only one.”
Germany has a problem. Foryears, politicians and securitychiefs rejected the notion of anyfar-right infiltration of the securi-ty services, speaking only of “indi-vidual cases.” The idea of net-works was dismissed. The superi-ors of those exposed as extremistswere protected. Guns and ammu-nition disappeared from militarystockpiles with no real investiga-tion.
The government is now wakingup. Cases of far-right extremistsin the military and the police,some hoarding weapons and ex-plosives, have multiplied alarm-ingly. The nation’s top intelligenceofficials and senior military com-manders are moving to confrontan issue that has become too dan-gerous to ignore.
The problem has deepened withthe emergence of the Alternativefor Germany party, or AfD, whichlegitimized a far-right ideologythat used the arrival of more thana million migrants in 2015 — andmore recently the coronaviruspandemic — to engender a senseof impending crisis.
Most concerning to the authori-ties is that the extremists appearto be concentrated in the militaryunit that is supposed to be themost elite and dedicated to theGerman state, the special forces,known by their German acronym,
German Force Fears Inroads
By Neo-Nazis
In an Elite Unit, StolenArms and SS Songs
By KATRIN BENNHOLD
Continued on Page 12
As the national debate over the anthemshifts, it’s now the athletes who stay ontheir feet who find themselves havingto defend their stance. PAGE 28
SPORTS 28-30
Not Kneeling? Explain Yourself
Inside a former firehouse inRichmond, Va., a lone actor per-forms “The Picture of DorianGray” for audiences as small astwo. In a Denver parking lot, thea-tergoers in cars watch, throughtheir windshields, four perform-ers costumed as grasshoppers. Ona 600-acre property in Arkansas, acast of about 130 re-enacts thestory of Jesus for several hundred
ticket-holders spread across a4,000-seat outdoor amphitheater.
The coronavirus pandemic hasshuttered Broadway through theend of the year (at least), and thenation’s big regional theaters andmajor outdoor festivals havemostly pivoted to streaming. Buteven as infections surge in theUnited States, many theaters arefinding ways to present live per-formances before live audiences.
Of course, there is social dis-
tancing. Also, in some places,masks. Temperature checks.Touchless ticketing. Intermission-less shows. And lots of disinfec-tant. At the Footlights Theater, inFalmouth, Maine, actors will per-form behind plexiglass.
But these precautions meanthere is dinner theater in Florida.Street theater in Chicago. Drive-intheater in Iowa.
“Our commitment is to do live
The Show Must Go On (From Behind Plexiglass)By MICHAEL PAULSON
Continued on Page 5
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump used the spotlight of theFourth of July weekend to sow na-tional divide during national cri-sis, denying his failings in contain-ing the worsening coronaviruspandemic while delivering aharsh diatribe against what hebranded the “new far-left fas-cism.”
In a speech at the White Houseon Saturday evening and an ad-dress in front of Mount Rushmoreon Friday night, Mr. Trump pro-moted a version of the “Americancarnage” vision for the countrythat he laid out during his inaugu-ral address — updated to includean ominous depiction of the recentprotests over racial justice.
In doing so, he signaled evenmore clearly that he would exploitrace and cultural flash points tostoke fear among his base of whitesupporters in an effort to win re-election. As he has done in thepast, he resorted on Friday to ex-aggerated, apocalyptic languagein broadly tarring the nationwide
protests against entrenched rac-ism and police brutality, sayingthat “angry mobs” sought to “un-leash a wave of violent crime inour cities” and that those seekingto deface monuments want to“end America.”
Mr. Trump followed up with his
remarks on Saturday from theSouth Lawn of the White House,which sounded more like a cam-paign rally, and repeated thethemes from the previousevening.
“We will never allow an angrymob to tear down our statues,
erase our history, indoctrinate ourchildren or trample on our free-doms,” Mr. Trump said, claimingthat protesters — who have wonbroad public support, includingfrom corporate America — were“not interested in justice or heal-
As Virus Rages and Poll Numbers Slip, ‘American Carnage’ ReduxBy ANNIE KARNI
and MAGGIE HABERMAN
In two holiday speeches, President Trump leaned on racial and cultural divisions to buoy loyalists.PETE MAROVICH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page 23
Eviction bans have not protected manyrenters, including immigrants who feara worse fate: deportation. PAGE 19
NATIONAL 19-23
Losing a Home in a PandemicWorking from home has people reach-ing for the breakout garment of quaran-tine season: a Zoom Shirt. PAGE 1
A Video Call Wardrobe Go-To
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