WH reporter & wife test + because of the President's gross disregard for basic health precautions

[MelissaB]

@shearm is an indefatigable White House reporter and great friend and colleague, now he and his wife are sick because of the President’s gross disregard for basic health precautions in his own White House. What an awful, preventable mess...

Link to tweet

Reporter who tested positive:

Michael D. Shear
@shearm
White House Correspondent for The New York Times, CNN Political analyst, and co-author of “BORDER WARS: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration”

[liberalla]

1. So unnecessary - so preventable... and so predictable !!!

Who didn't see this coming?

[unblock]

2. I don't think infecting the White House press corps plays well in the fascist strategy

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Actually, from Trump's point of view

it's probably a good thing. Let all those pesky reporters get too sick to come to work and they won't be asking an annoying questions.

[Blue Owl]

4. Trump's strutting around like a loose cannon infecting everyone in his path

With NO QUESTIONING, NO RESTRAINT, and NO CONSEQUENCES!

No consequences yet, at least...

[brush]

5. It's absolute insanity and it's time for Pence and the other repugs to...

envolk the 25th Amendment. Just the image of his arrogant, crazy ass on the balcony last night defiantly taking off his mask to pose for photos then to walk into the WH maskless while shedding...its just too much. We're officially living in a trumpian dystopia now.

[greenjar_01]

6. People are going to start dying from this cluster

I mean, specifically from this super-spreader event of the SCOTUS nom.

It's horrifying.

[crickets]

7. I'm afraid you're right given the number of people exposed.

We aren't even hearing about all of those who've come down with the virus, only the most prominent ones. There is no way every one of them will recover; there are too many to hope for a rosy outcome. It's awful.