IA-SEN: Ernst: 'No Reason' Not To Hold Trump Iowa Rally If He's COVID Negative

[RandySF]

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Sunday there is “no reason” President Donald Trump “shouldn’t be out and about” campaigning if he has tested negative for COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease he was diagnosed with on Oct. 2.

“He should be negative, and if that’s true, there’s no reason he shouldn’t be out and about,” Ernst said in Davenport, responding to a question from Starting Line about President Trump’s upcoming rally in Des Moines. “We would just advise everybody to make sure you are following the proper precautions whenever you do attend events like this — make sure you’re wearing a mask, using hand sanitizer.

The American people, however, do not know when the president last tested negative for the coronavirus. Since his diagnosis nine days ago, the White House has not disclosed the date of Trump’s last negative test, leaving people to question whether he actually is free of the virus, as he claims.

Trump’s planned Wednesday rally at Des Moines International Airport comes as Iowa is faced with one of the worst rates of coronavirus in the nation, with a statewide positivity rate of 11.6%. The number of hospitalized patients now is higher than the worst points in the spring, with 449 people hospitalized as of Sunday evening.



https://iowastartingline.com/2020/10/11/ernst-no-reason-not-to-hold-trump-iowa-rally-if-hes-covid-negative/

[madaboutharry]

1. "... make sure you're wearing a mask, using hand sanitizer."

Joni Ernst is so stupid.

The cult members who attend his rallies don't wear masks, probably never owned a bottle of hand sanitizer in their lives because they think hand sanitizer is for wussies, and stand crowded together like they're on a 5:00 pm pre-pandemic NYC subway car.

It is the people in the crowd who are spreading the disease.

And Donald Trump and the republican party does not care at all if any of these people get sick and die or if the spread the disease to their families and friends who then get sick and die.