Pence Tells White House Staff to Avoid Contact

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Pence Tells White House Staff to Avoid Contact

March 14, 2020 at 6:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 95 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/14/pence-tells-white-house-staff-to-avoid-contact/

"SNIP......

“Vice President Mike Pence sent White House staff an email Saturday afternoon recommending ‘social distancing’ and to ‘avoid physical contact’ to keep themselves and their colleagues safe from the novel coronavirus,” Axios reports.

“This is the first staff-wide email Pence has sent across the complex during his time as vice president — and is the latest sign the White House is shifting its posture against the pandemic.”

.......SNIP"

[getagrip_already]

1. the entire staff has been exposed.... a little late, no?

Trump and pence have been holding meetings and pushing staff around for a week since they were exposed, and trump is likely already sick.

Good luck with distancing in a very tightly packed office environment.

[enough]

3. Right, they have no idea what they're dealing with. NT

[crickets]

11. +1

[Skidmore]

2. Trump thinks he's invincible

and no one there has common sense.

[tblue37]

4. Trump didn't get the memo. nt

[gollygee]

5. Finally!

Better late than never, I guess? Hmm.

[greenjar_01]

6. Is Pence in charge of the White House now?

Have we gotten any update on Mark Meadows?

[Roland99]

7. When exactly was he appointed to the "task farce"?

[MerryBlooms]

8. Right after they all shook hands at that ridiculous pretense of a news conference yesterday?

[DFW]

9. Sounds like a palace coup

Pence orders everybody to avoid contact with Trump. A very much relieved White House staff is only too happy to oblige. Trump doesn't quite get why no one will come near him, but it does let him concentrate on his tweeting, so he lets it go--up until the moment Pence has him formally sequestered, and has himself sworn in. Trump's comment as he was led away in a wheeled cage was, "huh?"

[AC_Mem]

10. I don't think that will help

think about it. you can keep 6 feet away from people at work (IF your desk is that far away), but groups share the copier, the break rooms, elevators and elevator buttons, door entrances, cleaning people come into our area nightly and if any of them are sick, the virus hovers so we could be exposed even if we never came in contact with the people. Security makes rounds, visitors come in. Six feet means nothing when a simple sneeze or cough can put the virus in the air for over 30 minutes for anyone to walk through, or land on a desktop, and be active for 2 days, etc.

I've done my best to be balanced, but I'm HIGH risk for several reasons (immunity disorder, have had pneumonia 5x, am almost 62, work in a hospital) - I'm starting to get concerned about going to work on Monday.

annette