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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Sun May 10, 2020, 12:52 PM May 2020

This says everything about corporate america.........and the psychopaths of greed ................

Pence had CEOs remove masks before meeting with him — hours after his press secretary tested positive for COVID-19
Published 1 min ago on May 10, 2020

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement



The Trump administration is not only ignoring CDC and medical experts’ guidelines it is actively working to make Americans less safe.

On Friday Vice President Mike Pence flew aboard Air Force Two to Des Moines, Iowa, to meet with food industry CEOs. His flight was delayed after his press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for coronavirus. Several staffers were forced to exit the plane before it took off. Also board were Iowa Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

Pence held a roundtable discussion at the headquarters of the Hy-Vee supermarket chain. As The Intercept reports, five industry executives, seated at the table, all wearing masks, were approached by a staffer who asked them to remove their masks before the Vice President would come to the table (video below.)





Let's think about this .........they are in charge of companies, and not one of them said no.....
........it was all about the photo op, so that it reinforces the
fucking "truthers" to go around doing there shit show..........just imagine what they (CEO's) are doing to the employees that have to go home to there families......I just wonder if they have health care where there employees work.....doubt it.......
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This says everything about corporate america.........and the psychopaths of greed ................ (Original Post) turbinetree May 2020 OP
Selfhealing Goonch May 2020 #1
+1 ! lunasun May 2020 #4
Herd immunity? Faux pas May 2020 #2
This is all about visuals for their base, that is all it is? Brainfodder May 2020 #3
Also aboard Wawannabe May 2020 #5
Yeah!! Oops, Scarsdale May 2020 #7
Found it xxqqqzme May 2020 #6
Work? Scarsdale May 2020 #8
And they get NO masks! Wawannabe May 2020 #9
If these CEOs had any balls lonely bird May 2020 #10
Greed over People . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #11

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
3. This is all about visuals for their base, that is all it is?
Sun May 10, 2020, 01:17 PM
May 2020

It is simple and simply stupid, but it's their long con and their game plan apparently for the simple minded?

KARMA must be on a bender?

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
6. Found it
Sun May 10, 2020, 03:18 PM
May 2020
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/09/pence-aides-positive-covid-19-test-exposes-folly-white-house-aversion-masks/


"...the union that represents Iowa meat-packers, who have been forced back to work by an executive order from the president despite outbreaks at their plants, suggested that it would have been more useful for Pence, Perdue, Grassley and Ernst to have worked a shift alongside them. “They should work in the same conditions and under the same fear that our members and their fellow Iowans work under every day,....”
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