Hope Hicks has Covid and flew with Trump to the debate.

[drray23]

and then into marine 1. I wonder if she also was one of the idiots in Trump entourage in the debate room. The Trump clique refused to wear masks. Maybe the whole tribe including Trump got infected. We can always hope.

[JI7]

1. The entire Trump side wasn't wearing masks. And refused even provided .

[drray23]

3. exactly. maybe we get lucky..

[Squinch]

2. I'm worried about Joe now.

[LisaL]

7. They should have divided the room with plexiglass.

It was only a matter of time since Trump's posse refuses to wear masks while in public settings.

[JI7]

8. He never got near them I assume but I did not think they needed

any audience for the debate. Especially with the Trump side refusing to wear masks.

[drray23]

13. but they were in the same air conditioned room.

its a bit worrisome. covid has been shown to propagate more in rooms than of course outside.

[JI7]

21. Right, the debate organizers really need to do something

[LisaL]

26. Well debates might be over.

Trump should be in quarantine. And how are you going to have a town hall without people?

[JI7]

29. They can have people distanced from each other. But im talking about audience

in first type of debate. The audience was not needed. And entire Trump Trash came out without masks and refused to wear them.

[Jarqui]

10. Exactly

Joe's group could have been around Hicks and Trump people who didn't have a mask.

And if Trump had it during the debate, Joe spent 90 minutes with someone when speaking is worse than breathing.

[JI7]

30. I don't think they were around each other but there other person mentioned air conditioners

and that's how it could spread .

[Jarqui]

32. Like a church, being in the same room,

as large as it was, with folks who were not wearing masks for two hours (15 mins before & after the debate).puts everyone there at some risk.

But the Trump campaign definitely has the higher risk if the report is correct: that Hicks flew to the debate on Air Force One
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-election-news-09-29-20/h_96a0c85cef83d7dd5a1c96a2f6158261
with the President and his advisors

[Thomas Hurt]

4. My ambivalence rages, my compassin wanes and yet I just don't think we could be so lucky...

[Marius25]

5. I'm amazed Trump hasn't gotten it yet.

It seems like everyone has gotten it around him except him.

[Mariana]

15. Hardly anyone who gets near him has had it. nt.

[fleabiscuit]

33. Welcome to the DU. Your post didn't age well. :-) nt

[Bev54]

6. The whole family was there

were they all on the plane together, please say YES!

[In It to Win It]

9. It gets everybody else but not him 😤

[pandr32]

11. Fingers crossed

[still_one]

12. Glad that Joe and Jill didn't get close to those scum

[dalton99a]

14. Cleveland Clinic: "Everyone permitted inside the debate hall tested negative"

Wearing a face mask is especially important at an indoor public event like this one because we know the coronavirus is more likely to spread indoors where there's limited airflow. The debate was held at the Health Education Campus in Columbus, Ohio, a facility established by both Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic. Additionally, the Cleveland Clinic is serving as the health security advisor to the Commission on Presidential Debates this year, establishing safety guidelines and recommendations for the debates.

During the debate, the venue set up space between seats to help attendees maintain social distancing. It also implemented disinfecting procedures and set up a rapid testing and temperature screening station onsite, NBC News reports. And, according to the Cleveland Clinic's guidelines, everyone in the room should have been wearing a mask.

“As health advisor to the Commission on Presidential Debates, we made several recommendations to maintain a safe environment including temperature checks, health screenings, and masking," Cleveland Clinic told SELF in a statement. "Most importantly, everyone permitted inside the debate hall tested negative for COVID-19.”

So, in addition to ignoring basic public health safety recommendations, the Trump family also eschewed the venue's guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID-19 by not wearing their masks during the debate. That's not exactly a comforting example to set in the middle of a pandemic that's already killed 200,000 people in this country.

https://www.self.com/story/trump-family-debate-masks

[LisaL]

17. That's the thing with the virus.

You don't start testing positive immediately after infection. It takes a while for virus to replicate enough to be picked up by testing.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Then, hopefully, she didn't have enough virus to seriously infect anyone?

[LisaL]

24. I don't think that's accurate either.

Asymptomatic people can spread virus. Some people have tested negative repeatedly even though they were infected and had symptoms.

[Baitball Blogger]

27. Jesus. Hope Hicks.

Well, if he gets it, it would be from someone he holds dear.

[drray23]

18. not reassuring enough.

it takes days for somebody with covid to test positive. if she tested positive today, she had it tuesday.

[marlakay]

16. Another article says aides wear masks if near him

But if she was alone with him for any reason or he touched something she did?

[LisaL]

19. I find it hard to believe they wear masks.

Even during the debate his posse had no masks on.

[marlakay]

20. I bet they wear masks in front of reporters sometimes

His aides not family. But your right they would take off. Trump himself might be afraid though just pretending the no mask for his base.

[Lucinda]

23. My first thought was Jill Biden's safety. And now Joe.

No doubt Hicks was close enough to the Trump family to put everyone in the room at risk...and Melania was the only one of the bunch that I saw wearing a mask...

[crimycarny]

25. Joe usually wears a mask when not speaking

Remember the hug Jill Biden gave Joe at the end of the debate? She was wearing a mask. That tells me Joe probably was too except when he was on camera. As far as air conditioning, as long as the venue has good ventilation the risk of virus spread is low.

So I’m sure Joe will be ok. I hope Trump is not. I don’t want him to die of COVID as I want him to be humiliated with losing the Presidency, but I do want him to become miserably ill.

[ecstatic]

28. This might be what's needed to get back on track

tRump's recklessness is killing people.

Perhaps his demise would provide a desperately needed reset.

[BlueLucy]

31. Scaramucci on Cuomo said Hope Hicks does Trump's hair at times.