White House Dismisses COVID-19 Risk At Trump Rally: ‘That’s Part Of Life’

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday brushed aside the risk of people attending President Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally this weekend becoming infected with COVID-19, arguing that it’s their “personal decision” to go in the first place.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1315259
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WT actual F???

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So why the waivers? Getting sick and dying is a part of life too.

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That’s funny because they sure don’t have this opinion when a non-citizen or worse yet, someone here illegally, kills an American here in the states.

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Death Cult Foul ball??

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Enjoy!

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News flash
Maybe the Chinese will help Trump:

or…not. Blaming the Chinese for covid didn’t go so well.
Many people are saying that was spite from Trump because they wouldn’t help his campaign.

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She compared a rally-goer falling ill to COVID-19 to a baseball fan getting struck by a foul ball.

“When you go to a baseball game, you assume a risk,” McEnany said. “That’s part of life.”

All MLB baseball stadiums have nets. It’s kinda of like a collective mask so a fan doesn’t get killed.
And NASCAR has steel netting to protect the fans too.

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Sure because stroking the President’s ego, among other things, is significantly more important than the health and well being of the voters that could well put him back in office.

Carry on.

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When I go to a baseball game, I am always concerned that a foul ball will follow me to my mother’s house and hit her in the head.

But that’s just a chance I have to take.

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About three people have died from foul balls in the history of the game, Kayleigh. We’re at right about 120,000 COVID-19 deaths right now. And you’re a witch from hell.

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Someone who gets hit with a baseball is not going to leave the game and cause multiple other people to get hit by baseballs. However, someone who attends this rally is quite likely to go out and spread that disease to others.

This is what economists call “cost shifting,” i.e. when I shift the “costs” of my own decisions onto others. For example, when someone chooses to “roll coal” and blast toxic gases out of their tailpipe, they themselves aren’t bearing the costs of that decision (or at least very little of them) - everyone else who has to breathe in that toxic spew is.

If only we could confine infection and death to those who choose to act irresponsibly - i.e. shift those costs back on to them and them only. But we can’t. We can only hope, hope that these numnuts alone bear the costs of their decisions - one person in particular.

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“When you go to a baseball game, you assume a risk,” McEnany said. “That’s part of life.”

Anyone feel like throwing a fastball at McEnany’s head? Asking for a friend.

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Getting sued is not I guess
Money important
Lives not so much
GOP SOP

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Hey, Kayleigh who did not go to law school:

eta: Result of search with “Foul ball+injury+lawsuit”…not hard to find.

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Good Dog! Kayleigh makes SHS look like St. Teresa!

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It’s like Olympians who just keep breaking records. It seems to defy common sense. You can’t believe people can get that much better at running, or jumping, or lying.

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“When you go to a baseball game, you assume a risk,” McEnany said. “That’s part of life.”

We can’t go to baseball games, you moron.

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You know she will not be in the crowd. None of their kind will be in the neighborhood.

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Nothing the blond Bimbo says matters at this point… given this news:

Trump’s campaign keeps claiming Biden is weak on China, the reason to vote for Trump. Yet:

"During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019 Group of 20 summit in Japan, Xi complained to Trump about China critics in the United States. But Bolton writes in a book scheduled to be released next week that “Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.

“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.” "

Gonna make some really good TV advertisements about “PRESIDENT TREASON”

And the last line about he has the exact words, but Trump prevented him from putting them in the book is

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I hear a subpoena landing from Schiff in 10,9,8, 7…

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