Reporter at Trump's Tulsa rally tests positive for COVID-19

[highplainsdem]

Source: AP

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A journalist who attended President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa last week said Friday he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Oklahoma Watch reporter Paul Monies said he was notified Friday of his positive diagnosis.

“I’m pretty surprised,” Monies wrote on Twitter. “I have zero symptoms (so far) and I feel fine. In fact, I ran 5 miles this morning.”

Monies said he was inside the rally for about 6 hours on Saturday at the BOK Center and that he wore a mask and mostly practiced social distancing, except for when he went to the concourse to get a snack. He said he was never close to the president.

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Unfortunately for that journalist, and possibly other journalists who were there, you can't really social distance indoors when a large group of people who aren't wearing masks are yelling. Way too many droplets in the air. And unless Paul Monies was wearing a N95 mask, his mask wouldn't have offered that much protection from the mask-shunning idiots.

[mucifer]

1. you probably need a face shield, too in that petrie dish and why did he get a snack?

Bad move. Just don't eat for 6 hours.

[captain queeg]

2. Sometimes when I feel like puking some saltines settles my stomach

6 hours of that tripe I’d definitely feel like puking

[Igel]

3. If he has no symptoms, and hasn't had any,

how does he know he caught it at the rally and wasn't already infected (and spreading) before attending the rally?

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. My thought exactly

[LisaL]

5. As the article says, he doesn't know for sure where he got it.