No masks and no back up measures

[struggle4progress]

By Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 6:33 PM ET, Wed October 7, 2020

President Donald Trump had just concluded a hurricane briefing with local officials in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in August when Republican Sen. John Kennedy approached the President with a request for autographs from local law enforcement officials ...

Neither Trump, Meadows, McEntee, nor Trump's Secret Service agent were wearing masks. As they worked to create a bubble around the President, Trump's aides were simultaneously piercing it themselves, coming within inches of potentially contagious local officials before piling into a helicopter and airplane with Trump.

The late-summer episode hardly registered at the time. But two months later, as the virus ravages White House staff and Trump remains isolated with the disease himself, it seems illustrative of woefully inadequate efforts to keep both Trump and those surrounding him healthy ...

... the President's infection was the predictable result after months of blatantly disregarding basic public health guidance ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/politics/trump-coronavirus-tests/index.html

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "The late-summer episode hardly registered at the time."

The people who BELIEVE in science and particularly those in states that were devastated by this virus in the spring DID notice EVERY INSTANCE where there was purposefully, no masks and no social-distancing by people in that administration. I.e., it DID "register".

The problem is that the media didn't harp on the sheer hypocrisy. Which means that after 3 1/2 years of this, they still haven't found a way to deal with the continual lies. It took them over 2 years to even call them "lies" and finally consider "fact checking", yet they continued to promote the ridiculous behavior rather than just cut them off.

The best way to control this administration is to take the oxygen out of their room.

[brewens]

2. He repeatedly put his people in contact with the dumbest fucks in the country. People that

went out of their way to blow off any and all precautions. Who knows how many times they got lucky. This probably should have happened before now.

When Frau Miller got it, I wondered how it didn't infect anyone else. Maybe it did. We can be sure there are more infected now than they fess up to. Any loyalists that can hide it are doing so.

[samnsara]

4. finally they just announced it will be virtual!!