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Nevilledog

(51,112 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 01:51 PM Aug 2022

FLOTUS Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19



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Asked how FLOTUS, who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier today, is feeling, Biden tells press she's "good-- she's doing well."

“She has to quarantine, and then she’ll come home,” Biden says-- but does not respond to a q on former president Trump's handling of classified docs.
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liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
5. Yeah, the air might smell sweeter without masks, but there is Covid in the air, unfortunately
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:09 PM
Aug 2022

I hope she has a mild case and she probably will, as most of the important people never seem to have a bad outcome. Yet 12,000 to 15,000 non-important people are still dying of Covid every month, including a family member of mine. Many more thousands of people are becoming disabled every month from this horrible virus.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
7. I can't remember the last time I saw her, or anyone else in the WH wearing a mask.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:11 PM
Aug 2022

Outdoors in crowds, or indoors...they seem to have tossed them.

President Biden wasn't wearing one even after having Covid...I don't get it. It's discouraging to see.

Tree Lady

(11,470 posts)
8. And its getting to the point
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:38 PM
Aug 2022

everywhere I go only me and maybe 1 or 2 others have a mask on, rest of store walking around like Covid never happened. Sometimes I start to wonder if its me but after my husband caught it on our vacation, at a time he wasn't wearing his mask, I realized its still here we still have to be careful.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
9. I don't get it at all. Especially those who supposedly are supposed to set the example.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 02:55 PM
Aug 2022

Color me disillusioned.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
12. I'm watching CNN now and I see President Biden without a mask, even though the White House
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 03:55 PM
Aug 2022

indicated he was going to wear a mask for 10 days indoors and whenever he is around people. This is ridiculous. It sets a bad example. People run around maskless and then of course, they get infected and they demand Paxlovid. There are already so many people with long Covid and more becoming disabled everyday. I hope they will have income programs for people with long Covid in the near future. A lot of people can no longer work and they are struggling.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
14. Why though? I can speak fine with a mask and so can Biden. He's given a lot of speeches wearing a
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 04:12 PM
Aug 2022

mask in the past. The room he was talking in was full of people. He coughed when he took his mask off. It just doesn't make sense. Maybe they should have had the speech outside.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
16. No, he's been walking around and talking to people without one for quite awhile now.
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 05:39 PM
Aug 2022

After the CHIP speech, he was shaking hands, talking up close, and so on the entire time.

I assume he gets the best medical advice there is, so that must mean I don't need to wear a mask at all, right?

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