Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents told to self-quarantine after Trump's Tulsa rally

[RandySF]

Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents who were on site for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa last week were ordered to self-quarantine after two of their colleagues tested positive for the novel coronavirus, part of the fallout from Trump’s insistence on holding the mass gathering over the objections of public health officials.

The Secret Service instructed employees who worked the Tulsa event to stay at home for 14 days when they returned from the weekend trip, according to two people familiar with the agency’s decision.

The order came in the wake of the discovery — hours before the president’s Saturday evening rally — that at least six advance staffers who helped organize the trip had tested positive for the virus, including two Secret Service employees. Another two advance staffers tested positive after Trump returned to Washington on Sunday.

On Tuesday, the Secret Service field office in Tulsa arranged for a special testing session at a hospital to determine if local agents had contracted the virus while assisting with the rally, according to two other people with knowledge of the testing. As part of the arrangement, doctors administered the test to both agents and some local officials in parked cars outside the hospital.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dozens-of-secret-service-officers-and-agents-told-to-self-quarantine-after-trumps-tulsa-rally/2020/06/24/22c08b36-b55f-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[brush]

2. Thanks, trump. Wherever he goes chaos, disaster and death follow.

[Demovictory9]

10. he's going to mingle in new jersey at his golf club..no mask

[brush]

11. What a silly, concieted, selfish a-hole. Acting like he's too macho to wear a mask, when...

the real reason is if he wears one it's going to rub off his orange make-up.

If the dummy had projected real leadership from the get-go, everyone in the nation would've followed his lead. Everyone would be wearing masks and tens of thousands of lives would've been saved.

We can get rid of the destructive, dangerous clown fast enough.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. No way is it worth dying for that

worthless bastard.

[Grasswire2]

4. how much $$$$$$$$$$ do these campaign events cost taxpayers?

AStronomical.

And then Trump also refuses to pay cities for the fees and security.

WE can't afford him.

[crickets]

5. .

[oasis]

6. Paid days off, gimme that tv remote.

[Towlie]

7. But shouldn't they not have to quarantine because they're not civilians?

Trump will not follow New Jersey coronavirus quarantine order, ‘he’s not a civilian,’ White House says

The White House said that President Donald Trump will not change his plan to travel to New Jersey this weekend despite a new order by the governor requiring visitors who have been in states with high numbers of coronavirus cases to quarantine for 14 days.

“The president of the United States is not a civilian,” said a White House spokesman when asked about Trump’s compliance with the quarantine order given his travel Tuesday to Arizona, which has seen a rise in the rate of its Covid-19 cases.

The COVID-19 virus only affects civilians! Who knew?

(cross-posted from a less successful thread)

[2naSalit]

8. Though they are not civilians...

They are also protected by their employment agreement, whatever that may be, but I would imagine that OPM* has directed them to do so.

*Office of Personnel Management.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Best of luck to these officers. tRump is not even worth a bad cold.

I hope in the end, some brilliant soul calculates the human and financial cost of this publicity stunt.

Millions of dollars of tax money wasted, a bunch of people will have been infected and a few will likely die - all put on so tRump could have a couple of hours of feel-good and make money off selling worthless campaign junk.


KY................