Melanie uses children for a cheap photo op to "empower women"--and not a mask in sight except

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for some woman in the background. Not one kid had a mask. And I guess she only wants to empower white girls.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[LakeArenal]

1. Who?

[Kitchari]

2. Be Best

Did someone hand scrawl the sign on the podium?

[2naSalit]

3. Looks like it.

[Kitchari]

9. Classy (sarcasm)

[dmr]

5. Sure does.

It was an afterthought, I guess.

I hope the girls had fun. It is exciting to be invited to the White House. A memory for the rest of their lives.

Unfortunately, the current occupants are not very inspiring.

[Kitchari]

10. Agree I hope the girls had fun

And didn't catch any germs

[gademocrat7]

4. Horrible message.

The third wife is just as bad as her husband. No concern for safety during the pandemic. She is the worst woman to ever occupy the White House.

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. I dunno....

....Nancy Reagan was pretty fucking manipulative on so many levels. Melania is just bored trophy wife desperate to fluff her image.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Children's role in spread of virus bigger than thought

IIn the most comprehensive study of COVID-19 pediatric patients to date, researchers provide critical data showing that children play a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than previously thought.

In a study of 192 children ages 0-22, 49 children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and an additional 18 children had late-onset, COVID-19-related illness. The infected children were shown to have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than hospitalized adults in ICUs for COVID-19 treatment, according to Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Mass General Hospital for Children (MGHfC).

The study, “Pediatric SARS-CoV-2: Clinical Presentation, Infectivity, and Immune Reponses,” was published today in The Journal of Pediatrics.

“I was surprised by the high levels of virus we found in children of all ages, especially in the first two days of infection,” says Lael Yonker, director of the MGH Cystic Fibrosis Center and lead author of the study. “I was not expecting the viral load to be so high. You think of a hospital, and of all of the precautions taken to treat severely ill adults, but the viral loads of these hospitalized patients are significantly lower than a ‘healthy child’ who is walking around with a high SARS-CoV-2 viral load.”

Transmissibility or risk of contagion is greater with a high viral load. And even when children exhibit symptoms typical of COVID-19, like fever, runny nose and cough, they often overlap with common childhood illnesses, including influenza and the common cold. This confounds an accurate diagnosis of COVID-19, the illness derived from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, says Yonker. Along with viral load, researchers examined expression of the viral receptor and antibody response in healthy children, children with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and a smaller number of children with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).

more @ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/looking-at-children-as-the-silent-spreaders-of-sars-cov-2/

[demmiblue]

7. Gee... you'd think Be Best would include being a good role model.