Billionaire Trump donors contract Covid-19 after downplaying risks

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two of Donald Trump’s billionaire donors have contracted Covid-19 months after downplaying the risk of the disease to their employees.

Richard and Liz Uihlein, conservative megadonors who own the Uline packaging company based in Wisconsin and are two of the Republican party’s most significant financial backers, told employees on Wednesday that they had contracted the disease after being “around people with Covid”.

Liz Uihlein, 75, said in the message to employees: “After these long months, I thought we’d never get it. Well, Trump got it,” she said.

The news was first reported by Patch.com, a local news website, and was confirmed by the Guardian.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-trump-donors-contract-covid-172753540.html

[UpInArms]

1. 75 years old ....

Odds are not good for that demographic

Smh

[abqtommy]

2. Ai toju so!*

* to Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson in the book Variable Star.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Ignorance is so Blissful for some,

but,in the Uihlein Household,the belief is other people get infected and only poor folk.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. I still ceremoniously enjoy tossing Uline's new catalogs into recycle.....

every year and long after my retirement from business........

[John Ludi]

5. Good

the handcart I use from them sucks...no wheel brake. Expensive, heavy...and it rolls right away from me if I don't find some rut in the ground to put a wheel in.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. If they die they die

They helped spread garbage about Covid that has killed hundreds of thousands of people needlessly. I care zero if they die.

[sfstaxprep]

7. Couldn't Agree More! nt

[Vivienne235729]

8. I did not know that about Uline. Good to know....I will never order from them.

[Spazito]

9. As the recipient of their largesse said...

"It is what it is" and 'it only kills the old' (paraphrase as I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote, lol).