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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 12:30 PM Mar 2020

Multiple Trump golf club disco party attendees infected with coronavirus

Published 44 mins ago on March 24, 2020
By Travis Gettys

Two weeks ago, as fears of COVID-19 began to permeate the public consciousness, guests contracted coronavirus at a disco party hosted at Trump National Golf Club in California.

Susan Brooks celebrated her 70th birthday March 8 at the Rancho Palos Verdes golf club, where she was joined by family, friends and local political figures — and she learned a week later that one of the guests had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, reported the Los Angeles Times.

She soon tested positive, and so have three other guests.

Brooks, formerly the city’s mayor, referred questions to her daughter Meredith Brooks, who said they asked guests to stay away if they felt ill, as public health officials had advised at the time.

“Weddings were going on that weekend,” the younger Brooks told the newspaper. “Parties were going on that weekend. Life was going on as normal — it was the last normal weekend we had, but it was a normal weekend.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/multiple-trump-golf-club-disco-party-attendees-infected-with-coronavirus/

So, if anyone passes away the management of that place should be charged with manslaughter, just because of the stupidity ........... .............and as for the people that thought is was media pollution......................


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Multiple Trump golf club disco party attendees infected with coronavirus (Original Post) turbinetree Mar 2020 OP
His properties seem to hot spots underpants Mar 2020 #1
It was that week. We had been being cautious but that week I was looking at a full house LizBeth Mar 2020 #2
It's self-centered navel-gazing bullshit to say "life was going on as normal" that weekend. RockRaven Mar 2020 #3
I guess Mango Mussolini forgot to warn them.. Permanut Mar 2020 #4

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
2. It was that week. We had been being cautious but that week I was looking at a full house
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 12:40 PM
Mar 2020

dreading the people and bodily fluids. That was when our governor canceled events and I was so relieved I was not going to have to deal with all those people. That was the week we were discussing social distancing.

RockRaven

(14,967 posts)
3. It's self-centered navel-gazing bullshit to say "life was going on as normal" that weekend.
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 12:48 PM
Mar 2020

I can tell you from personal experience in Northern CA, and reports from family members in Southern CA, that that weekend may have been the last weekend before various lockdown restrictions started, but that particular weekend was NOT normal.

People were really emptying out supermarkets that weekend -- but had been shopping abnormally/stocking up for 2-3 weeks by that time (multiple cashiers are various stores I went to made mention of the same timeframe of abnormal activity). Drugstore and supermarket shelves had been bare of hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes for nearly a month by that point.

The reality is that these selfish pricks wanted to have their party, so they had their party. And everything else they have to say about that decision is self-justifying rationalization. They can stuff it.

Permanut

(5,609 posts)
4. I guess Mango Mussolini forgot to warn them..
Tue Mar 24, 2020, 01:05 PM
Mar 2020

He already knew it was going to be a pandemic. How do I know that? Why, our fearless leader said so.

“I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic,” he said in mid-March.

[link:https://news.yahoo.com/ap-fact-check-trump-says-050722798.html|

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