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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsParticipants in Amy Coney Barrett's introduction were encouraged to take off their masks and mingle
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/3/1983138/-Amy-Barrett-s-introduction-has-emerged-as-a-superspreader-event-that-may-affect-her-confirmationParticipants in Amy Coney Barrett's introduction were encouraged to take off their masks and mingle
Mark Sumner
Daily Kos Staff
Saturday October 03, 2020 · 9:31 AM EDT
A day after Donald Trump admitted to testing positive for COVID-19, the Rose Garden ceremony formally introducing Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee for the Supreme Court has emerged as a super-spreader event. In addition to Trump, at least 11 others including former White House press secretary Kellyanne Conway, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, Republican Senator Mike Lee, and Republican Senator Thom Tillis have tested positive following Barretts introduction. While othersincluding Hope Hicks, who did not appear at the event, it seems clear that this was the nexus of transmission. At that event one week ago, someone had an active case of COVID-19, and it spread.
It spread because, as The Washington Post notes, the event was treated like a triumphal flashback to the Before Times. Though some guestsnotably those who sat near the back of the affairchose to wear masks, most of those front and center came in mask-free. There was also little effort to demonstrate any form of social distancing, with ecstatic Republicans hugging, shaking hands, and generally celebrating at close range their hunger to replace a legendary Supreme Court Justice who was at that moment still awaiting her funeral.
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The contrast between what the Post called the carefree, cavalier attitude toward the virus on display in the Rose Garden last Saturday and the somber roll call of test results a week later is shocking, but what happened at the White House was only one of thousands of such outbreaks that have happened across the nation. And no matter what they apparently believed, no one is immune.
The red death had long devastated the country.
But Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court
From Edgar Allan Poes, Masque of the Red Death
From Edgar Allan Poes, Masque of the Red Death
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Participants in Amy Coney Barrett's introduction were encouraged to take off their masks and mingle (Original Post)
babylonsister
Oct 2020
OP
These people are do F'ed up. It a damn disease/virus, not a political statement. I really
RKP5637
Oct 2020
#2
I hope they shared all the love with each other in their huggy kissy goodbye Trump administration.
Autumn
Oct 2020
#3
Two things: They are super conflicted about their God, so they are testing their faith.
Baked Potato
Oct 2020
#8
LisaL
(44,974 posts)1. Fair is fair.
Covid needs a fair opportunity to be able to super spread.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)2. These people are do F'ed up. It a damn disease/virus, not a political statement. I really
have little sympathy for them when they flaunt protections and then wonder WTF, how did I get COVID-19.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)3. I hope they shared all the love with each other in their huggy kissy goodbye Trump administration.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)4. I want to know
Who is the spreader?
Encouraged by whom to remove masks?
And what I really can't find out: clearly this is a highly contagious strain of the disease, are highly contagious strains more deadly, or does it depend on the person?
My theory is the more contagious strains are designed more for dispersion than killing
Zambero
(8,971 posts)7. This unsolved mystery needs a board game
along the lines of "Clue". "Flue" perhaps?
czarjak
(11,296 posts)5. Didn't I see Laura Ingraham in The House?
tanyev
(42,623 posts)6. The Rose Garden Massacree and Super Spreader Soiree.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)8. Two things: They are super conflicted about their God, so they are testing their faith.
And, they know they are fucked up people and are self punishing.