October 3, 2020: COVID Comes to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

 

10/3/20: The coronavirus continues not to go away. And mask-wearing looks smarter by the hour.

 

Don’t wear one and risk an expensive trip to the hospital or a less expensive, one-way trip to the morgue. 

Trump, left, has COVID. So does Kellyanne, right.

President Trump has learned the hard way that denying science doesn’t mean science isn’t true. Saturday finds him in the sick ward at Walter Reed Medical Center, while the First Lady recovers at the White House. Other members of Team Trump who are COVID-positive include: White House Babe Hope Hicks, Trump Whisperer Kellyanne Conway (whose teenage daughter is “furious” with mom for exposing their family), former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and GOP senators Thom Tillis, Mike Lee, and Ron Johnson. Christie has checked into the hospital.

 

Also infected at various White House/Trump campaign events: University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins, RNC chair Rona McDaniel, Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, and Nicholas Luna, “body man” to Mr. Trump. Emails have gone out, ordering all White House staff to wear masks in all common areas.

 

Previously, masks were mocked. 

 

Expect more positive results in coming days. Also expect idiotic comments to multiply. One Republican hinted darkly that a plot was afoot...because only top Republicans around the president were getting sick.

 

Yet, top Democrats were safe!!!!

 

This is what happens when the man in the White House sets an anti-mask tone, whereas leading Democrats don them proudly.

 

Medical experts have been reminding us since March that masks and social distancing are key to stopping the spread of disease. If Team Trump ignored sound advice, they have no one to blame but themselves if the president dies. (See: 10/26/20 and 11/7/20 for even more positive results.)

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: Governor Christie tests positive for COVID on October 3, after spending time at the White House, where President Trump and several aides have tested positive. He ends up in the ICU unit for seven days and admits he was wrong not to wear a mask. In a book written in 2021, Christie reveals that he was worried for his survival. A priest arrived at one point and rubbed oils on his forehead in the sign of the cross, and prayed over him. 

At that point, Trump was hospitalized himself. He gave Christie a call. The president, Christie would later write, had one main concern: “Are you gonna say you got it from me?” he asked. 

During an interview in December 2021, Christie said it was “undeniable” he contracted the virus from the president. After learning that White House Chief of Staff now says Trump first tested positive on September 26, Gov. Christie said it was “inexcusable” that he and others prepping the president were not warned.

“I would have worn a mask if I knew that,” Christie said. “We knew everybody in that room, except for the president, was getting tested every day. We didn’t know what the president’s testing regimen was.

“So if Mark Meadows knew that somebody that I was sitting across from for four days had popped the positive test, [he] should have told us.

“He didn’t tell us,” Christie said. “I went into the hospital in the intensive care unit. He didn’t call and tell me. So I think that’s inexcusable.”