This Incompetent Administration's Response to Coronavirus

[bobabode]

'Secret Service agents preparing for Pence Arizona trip contracted coronavirus'
WP

'Vice President Pence’s trip to Arizona this week had to be postponed by a day after several Secret Service agents who helped organize the visit either tested positive for the coronavirus or were showing symptoms of being infected.

Pence was scheduled to go to Phoenix on Tuesday but went on Wednesday instead so that healthy agents could be deployed for his visit, according to two senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private details of the trip.

Arizona has seen a spike in cases in recent weeks, and Pence scaled back the trip before the delay because of the growing amount of infections in the state.

Pence’s staff was concerned last weekend about their ability to hold planned public events in Tucson and Yuma due to the outbreak, one administration official said, and decided on Saturday to visit only Phoenix for a much smaller meeting — a public health briefing with Gov. Doug Ducey (R) and local health care leaders.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...26f_story.html

Secret Service agents used up like paper towels at a bbq, for political rallies. smh.

[RickeyM]

I wonder if those Secret Service agents are getting hazard pay since tRump/pEnce insist on dragging them into high danger situations?

[donquixote99]

They should. 'Helping to organize' such a visit involves visiting all the locations the principle will go, and interacting with lots of people to investigate security measures and give them instructions. Lots of these people will be maskless Republicans.

[Chicks]

UK confirms US will be on 'red-list' of banned travel destinations over high rate of infections
Transport minister says US has ‘got very high numbers of infections’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9599241.html

Thanks, Donny!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Chicks

UK confirms US will be on 'red-list' of banned travel destinations over high rate of infections
Transport minister says US has ‘got very high numbers of infections’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9599241.html

Thanks, Donny!

Trumplestiltskin got the rest of the world to build his 'wall' around the US. We are now persona non grata to most of the world. Europe used to be an American tourist playground before we lost our frigging minds.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Trumplestiltskin got the rest of the world to build his 'wall' around the US. We are now persona non grata to most of the world. Europe used to be an American tourist playground before we lost our frigging minds.

i.e. the tourist dollars are staying in the US. Nice.

I've been fishing on the Kenai river in Alaska, visited the grand canyon, surfed the beaches in Hawaii and bicycled the trails of the Moab in Utah. Now I enjoy riding my zero turn mower on the knobs of Kentucky.

I hear europe has some nice paintings and they haven't torn down the statues yet - but I can see that crap in a James Bond movie, so I'm good.

[bobabode]

"After a woman in Rockland County, N.Y., admitted to throwing her daughter a party while showing coronavirus symptoms, contact tracers sprung into action.

They phoned dozens of guests, hoping to get the partygoers tested and isolated and stop an emerging coronavirus cluster in its tracks. But many of the attendees hung up, handed the calls to their parents or flat-out lied, saying they never made it to the event on June 17. Others never picked up at all.

So this week, county health officials tried a much more drastic approach. They issued subpoenas to eight of the partygoers, ordering them to speak up to the disease detectives or face a fine of up to $2,000 a day — and it worked." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...arty-subpoena/

We need some Covid camps this summer. Gather up all the knotheads and put them in a tent city. I suggest the somewhere in the Great Sonoran desert in Arizona or Patton's old army base in the Mojave.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by bobabode

"After a woman in Rockland County, N.Y., admitted to throwing her daughter a party while showing coronavirus symptoms, contact tracers sprung into action.


They phoned dozens of guests, hoping to get the partygoers tested and isolated and stop an emerging coronavirus cluster in its tracks. But many of the attendees hung up, handed the calls to their parents or flat-out lied, saying they never made it to the event on June 17. Others never picked up at all.

So this week, county health officials tried a much more drastic approach. They issued subpoenas to eight of the partygoers, ordering them to speak up to the disease detectives or face a fine of up to $2,000 a day — and it worked." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...arty-subpoena/

We need some Covid camps this summer. Gather up all the knotheads and put them in a tent city. I suggest the somewhere in the Great Sonoran desert in Arizona or Patton's old army base in the Mojave.

Bbbbbbbut, FREEDOM!

[Pio1980]

How many here are ready and willing to go all "Soylent greed" for the economy, speak up!

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by bobabode

"After a woman in Rockland County, N.Y., admitted to throwing her daughter a party while showing coronavirus symptoms, contact tracers sprung into action.

They phoned dozens of guests, hoping to get the partygoers tested and isolated and stop an emerging coronavirus cluster in its tracks. But many of the attendees hung up, handed the calls to their parents or flat-out lied, saying they never made it to the event on June 17. Others never picked up at all.

So this week, county health officials tried a much more drastic approach. They issued subpoenas to eight of the partygoers, ordering them to speak up to the disease detectives or face a fine of up to $2,000 a day — and it worked." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...arty-subpoena/

We need some Covid camps this summer. Gather up all the knotheads and put them in a tent city. I suggest the somewhere in the Great Sonoran desert in Arizona or Patton's old army base in the Mojave.

This is actually the sort of thing many on the right have been arguing the left wants - FEMA camps.

I always thought it was conspiracy theory nonsense, but your post suggests otherwise, assuming anyone actually agrees with you.

BTW, the tracing stuff is nonsense on several planes. You can't just force people to get tests, and the virus just isn't that big of a deal. It never was. The response (like putting people on ventilators) only exacerbated it.

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