Here’s How Pence’s Top Aide Kept Minimizing And Downplaying COVID Before He Got Infected

Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. Though he was among several of Pence’s aides who contracted the virus, Short’s diagnosis was particularly startling given all the ways he had openly dismissed the severity of COVID-19.


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This sure sounds like karma running over Mr Short’s dogma. But – can he be taught?

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So sick of these guys. Can’t wait for the day that their ignorance and arrogance is no longer considered newsworthy

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Denial of science/empiricism is a serious public health threat. Anyone in public service exhibiting such behavior should be quarantined until symptoms resolve.

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Pence’s Top Aide Kept Minimizing And Downplaying COVID Before He Got Infected

But has he stopped doing it?

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Is our children learning?

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Not sure why I’m reminded that the Church used to burn scientists at the stake.

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and here we thought Pence’s Coronavirus Task Force was going to show us how to AVOID getting covid-19.

silly us.

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They mis-understood their mandate?

I’m sure it’s China’s fault.

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I take full responsibility for blaming China

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schadenfreude

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There’s a lot of dumb in that photo.

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My first cut at the formula for covid-chastening probability is:

severity of disease / (ideological stridence) * (need to be stroked by president)

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Well, as Chiselin’ Trump, himself, explained to us: You don’t really know COVID-19 until you’ve contracted COVID-19.

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what’s with the extra long ties and Scott Walker’s brown shoes?

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Even the hungriest brain-eating zombie would turn around if he saw these four.

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OT, but coal baron Robert Murray is dead.

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Kudos!

I have not done the dimensional analysis and perhaps we need some nice constants in there – but I think you’ve got at least these three proportionalities right!

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I wonder if Scott Walker is bothering to go into quarantine? I realize he is only 52, but he has a sadistic 90 year old’s balance of bad karma.

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I’m not sure we should be talking about Covid. Isn’t that illegal?

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