The White House doesn’t even have a working pandemic response at the White House.
to hold a photo opportunity Friday with eight World War II veterans who are each 95 years old or older, aka the most vulnerable people imaginable.
PPE-wise, Pence didn’t wear a mask during his interactions in front of the nursing home, and Trump never wears a mask—he didn’t even wear one to—so we’re dealing with basically an entire Typhoid Mary branch of government at this point. The White House’s excuse for not following social distancing rules is that the president and VP, unlike everyone else in the country, have unlimited access to rapid-result COVID-19 testing, so that they are both being tested daily, as are the people who come into contact with them. But many coronavirus tests, and you can be a coronavirus carrier for several days before symptoms appear, if they appear at all.
The people who are supposed to be running a national coronavirus response plan, in sum, have not even implemented a successful virus-control program at the White House.
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