White House Expects More Staffers to Test Positive

[brooklynite]

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Source: Political Wire

Playbook: “The White House still anticipates more positive tests among the senior staff, which has been deemed essential personnel throughout the pandemic and forced to come into the office. A senior administration official tells us that staffing has been severely curtailed in the White House since this latest outbreak began, and surfaces are being cleaned more frequently.”



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[CottonBear]

1. Wear your fucking masks, you ignorant COVIDiats!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. What about soft surfaces like Draperies, etc?????

Betcha they cannot think that far ahead. Plenty of them at the WH.

[RKP5637]

4. It's just a simple sniffle, most people just go to work. That's what "The Stable Genius told us!" n

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

12. you mean bill clinton's drapes?

i had forgotten that, but it is mentioned in 'comey rules'.

[RKP5637]

3. OMG, how did this happen! None knew this could happen!

[Merlot]

5. "... and surfaces are being cleaned more frequently." which totally ignores

the airborne nature of the virus.

Cleaning surfaces looks good, and makes people feel like they are in control of something they are not in control of.

[RockCreek]

6. And the support people for staffers

And their families
And the donors.
And their help and families.
And other contacts.
And ....
Look at Biogen in Mass at the beginning, or one fairly small wedding in Maine in August to see how the spread multiplies.

[thesquanderer]

7. Knowing this WH, "expects more" means they already know there ARE more. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

8. THIS

That was like their "heads-up" message.

[soothsayer]

9. Yup

[lagomorph777]

17. +1

[Baitball Blogger]

10. How I'm reading that:

Some have already tested positive, but are not ready to reveal it, unless they start showing symptoms and have to go to a hospital for "precautionary reasons."

[onetexan]

11. yup, i'm translating it to mean there's alot more, so might as well just get in front of it and use

the word "expect" a a catch-all. Shameful.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Your scenario has been the NIGHTMARE of this whole pandemic

The overemphasis on "symptoms", despite the fact that many people have little or no symptoms AT ALL early on and if they do, the symptoms can be all over the map, with every combination and permutation possible. And having a symptom (or cherry-picked set of them) often determines whether you can even be eligible to even get a test.

And then you have those who believe that whenver they consider themselves "symptom-less", that means they just got a "get-out-of-quarantining/masking-up/socially-distancing" card, and are free to go right back to the same behavior they exhibited when they first got infected.

[Baitball Blogger]

18. I'm betting that Barr is under this category.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. I agree 100%, along with the "G" name I will not mention

[greenjar_01]

13. Possibly the most pathetic effort to get out in front of the unfolding catastrophe

Reckless, stupid, unfit to lead.

The rot starts at the top.

I feel bad for career staff being forced to work with the total shitbags of this administration.

[MineralMan]

14. Duh...

[lagomorph777]

16. I expect more GOP Senators and congress reps to test positive.

In fact, i'm positive they will.

[applegrove]

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