COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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Trump’s press secretary calls mass testing ‘nonsensical’ — even though she gets tested weekly
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May 7, 2020
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Cody Fenwick, AlterNet
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President Donald Trump has no plan for stopping COVID-19 from ravaging the country, so he expects the rest of us to simply continue on with our lives — no matter the cost.
But there is a plan in place for him to avoid the virus. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and those around them are frequently being tested for the coronavirus to keep White House leadership safe, even while testing for regular Americans remains inadequate.
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Among those who are tested regularly in the president’s inner circle is White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, according to the New York Times:
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At the White House, Mr. Trump’s new press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, reinforced the impression that administration officials were getting preferential treatment when she delivered her first news briefing on Friday — without a mask. She is among the group of senior officials tested weekly, as all assistants and deputy assistants to the president are, an official said on Friday. Aides who are lower in rank are tested based on how often they are in proximity to Mr. Trump.
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That’s why it was particularly galling on Wednesday during the daily press briefing that she dismissed a suggestion about mass testing the public:
Q Kayleigh, we were just talking about masks. You said, at Honeywell, that the President was told by the folks at Honeywell, as was the team, that they didn’t need to wear masks. The reason he was told that was the people who would be interacting with him had all been tested and had been shown to be negative before that took place, I guess. So the President had those circumstances. Obviously, he’s the President. But why shouldn’t all Americans who go back to work be able to get a test before they do to feel comfortable in their own work environment to be interacting with other individuals?
MS. MCENANY: Yeah, well, let’s dismiss a myth about tests right now. If we tested every single American in this country at this moment, we’d have to retest them an hour later, and then an hour later after that. Because at any moment, you could theoretically contract this virus. So the notion that everyone needs to be tested is just simply nonsensical.
In fact, it was her answer that was “nonsensical.” If every person in the country were tested, we would be much better off (even if “theoretically” you can contract the virus at any moment). That’s because anyone who was asymptomatic but tested positive could go into isolation; many of those people right now are likely working in essential (or even nonessential) industries and are continuing to spread the virus. If we knew who needed to be isolated and who didn’t, we would be on a much easier path toward normalcy.
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Of course, nobody thinks we’ll have the capacity to test everyone in a single day. But the fact that the White House doesn’t realize why it would be good if we could shows a dire lack of understanding about the nature of the crisis.
We won’t get even close to a sufficiently robust testing regime without stronger federal guidance. And it seems the leadership of the country is more worried about using tests to keep themselves safe while encouraging the public to believe that testing for the common folks would be a mistake.
maybe he got the rona or thinks you might have it.
I see y'all numbers been going up lately over there. Its one of the latest hotspots. Its like its weird and makes it suspicious cuz I wouldn't expect UK to be increasing like that especially against the other euro nations. I mean its a damn island. they still letting foreigners in? Its got more cases than Russia and Germany and way less tests. Imagine if the tests were doubled. Its crazy. Russia damn near gunning for top 5 now themselves. They getting like 10k cases a day. And China? They supposedly had 2 today and yet they dont report the number of tests they done. They sent all their infected out of the country and were like, yall aint coming back in here.
T-K-G
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shyt I'd have to agree with him
Countries already got outta pocket tryna steal masks and supplies from one another, we got states making deals with other countries behind the feds back because there's a lack of trust
The first country that develops a real vaccine is gonna be a target bc the first big economy to bounce back is gonna have such a huge leg up on everyone else, no one wants to be in last place during a depression.
No different from the nuclear bomb race, scientists getting kidnapped, data being stolen. shyt could get dark pretty fast
Trojan 24
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DaRealness
I think very deeply
I was so ready
They cancelled Glastonbury. No way they were gonna let NHC go on.
I don't know what to believe at this point. Some people get marked down as having the rona when that's not even the case apparently. A lot of people are starting to get suspicious especially as they're lifting some of the restrictions on Monday. As for China, I care nothing about that place at all and what happens there except for the black immigrants.
Give the Brehito a couple days to recover from Cinco de Mayo
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yeah its all craziness. who knows whats really going on.
