Real journalists wouldn’t let bad lawyers nix the reporting of facts or the asking of questions. The fact is that our democracy depends on a Fourth Estate made up of intellectual midgets who look good on camera and talk with deep voices. We are doomed because we are led by dummies. Democracy for Dummies is a thing.
”How can Trump’ drain the swamp’ when he can’t even drain his own lungs?!”
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I could be wrong, but I don’t think CDC does contact tracing. That could be at the state or local level (DC in this case), but the failure may be more in the White House not having designated even a single staffer in advance to collect this kind of data.
You can’t just suddenly do contact tracing on the fly; you need a database set up, a protocol for notifications sent to people possibly infected, and someone who knows how to manage it. The approach the administration has taken is to deny the virus will ever affect the White House at all, so of course they can’t do any proactive contact tracing and notifications. The system isn’t there to do it.
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I’ll bet either a) whoever’s job it is has given up contact tracing due to the number of cases, current positivity rate, etc, of the jurisdiction, or b) thy never even pondered what happens if the spread is happening at The White House. Maybe both.
All these individuals are patients of interest with COVID-19; they are not The White House or President or whatever for contract tracing purposes. Whatever rules/responsibilities for contact tracing apply to some homeless dude living under a tree in Lafayette Park should apply to these people. Or maybe for Fairfax, Bethesda, Palm Beach, and where ever these people are resident.
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H/T to Darwin.
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Could members of the press corp file a personal law suit
against White House press secretary Kaleigh McEnany
I would not think it would be viable under normal conditions - but exacerbated by willful disregard of protocol and standard precautions - it could genuinely be a case of intentional negligence
This is getting seriously criminally conspiratorial as layer after layer is pealed back - these assholes were concealing, withholding and lying about serious health risks and dangers to involved individuals - and subsequently to the community at large - as they were knowingly setting chain reactions in motion.
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Kill two shit birds with one stone!
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Kayleigh mac-a-ninny makes the case for abortion.
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Or the market is reacting to the stability of a Biden Administration.
So who held the door for him?
With other mid-level staffers testing positive, can we just say the WH is a Covid cluster or a hot spot?
This is accurate. White House communications aides Chad Gilmartin and Karoline Leavitt both have coronavirus, I’m told. Other mid-level staffers have tested positive, too, in recent days. https://t.co/dDCMJHDZ0b
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 5, 2020
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Half wit and dimwit.
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Trump camp knocks Biden’s lack first hand Covid experience? Well, you don’t have to fuck a porcupine to know you wouldn’t like it.
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It is a clusterfuck, for sure.
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Yuck.
Uhh, “Secret Service”. Get it?
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A lawyer who tells you if you accuse Donald Trump of intentionally attempting to murder Joe Biden and you can’t prove it, you risk losing the biggest libel suit in history is not a bad lawyer.
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George Takei @GeorgeTakei
19h
It should be noted, President Trump also tested negative for humanity.
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