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

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White House Dismisses COVID-19 Risk At Trump Rally: ‘That’s Part Of Life’
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a press briefing at the White House on June 8, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
By Cristina Cabrera
June 17, 2020 2:45 p.m.


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.

McEnany told reporters during a White House press briefing that the Trump campaign will provide temperature checks, hand sanitizers and masks at the event. However, attendees will not be required to wear the masks.

“When you come to the rally, as with any event, you assume a personal risk,” the press secretary said. “That is just what you do.”

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.”

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[Budi]

1. Is she going to be there? Mask free?

I sure hope so.

[OilemFirchen]

2. ... and then everyone you walk by will get a concussion.

[soothsayer]

4. Ha, excellent

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. When a baseball fan goes to a game he assumes the risk of being hit

by a foul ball. This is a classic example of the legal doctrine of assumption of risk. But where there is a slight possibility during any game that this could happen to one person, it's a long reach to the likelihood that everyone in the 19,000 seat stadium will be exposed to the virus, that hundreds if not thousands will probably catch it, and some of them will certainly die. This is not part of life, but you could say it's part of death by GOP.

And the baseball teams don't try to hide the fact that fans could get hit (most stadiums have a net behind home plate for that reason). Trump and his cronies, on the other hand, are telling people that the virus is going away and there's really nothing to worry about - basically deceiving them into assuming the risk of attending the rally (and signing the waiver), which means they're not assuming the risk at all because you have to know and understand what the risk is.

[louis-t]

5. It's the 'my worshipers should be willing to sacrifice themselves'

doctrine.

[tanyev]

6. The person who gets hit by a foul ball doesn't take down all the people around him.