That's it man. Game over. We're all gonna fucking die

[CatWoman]

Trump says he couldn't have exposed WWII vets to COVID-19 because the wind was blowing the wrong way

President Trump commemorated the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday with eight World War II veterans, the youngest of whom was 96 and the oldest of whom was 100, CBS News reports. The president, however, did not wear a mask around the veterans despite the CDC's warning that anyone over the age of 65 is at a higher risk for severe illness if they catch COVID-19.

Trump, notably, could have been exposed to the virus by one of his personal valets, who tested positive for COVID-19 this week and potentially wasn't wearing a mask when he interacted with the president. Asked if Trump gave "any consideration to wearing a mask" with the veterans "given that his valet just tested positive," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Friday that Trump is "regularly tested." She added that the veterans "made the choice" to attend the ceremony "because they've chosen to put their nation first. They wanted to be with their commander-in-chief on this momentous day. And it was there choice to come here."

Antibody tests of the sort Trump is regularly taking are famously unreliable, and there is also the chance that if someone is just starting to get sick, their blood antibody levels might not yet be at a height detectable by a test.

Trump additionally addressed criticism about attending the event without a mask, CNN reports, with the president telling the press "I was very far away from [the veterans] … Plus the wind was blowing so hard in such a direction that if the plague ever reached them, I'd be very surprised."

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-couldnt-exposed-wwii-194100287.html

[Patterson]

1. Who is the idiot who spelled "their" as "there" at the end of the 3rd paragraph?

[CatWoman]

5. can't speak to that

but I feel like we are all looped into one of those Looney Tunes episodes featuring Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.

[StevieM]

12. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

Or at least she was quoted that way.

I suppose it is possible that Yahoo News made the mistake in writing out her comments. But I am betting that it was her error.

[Jarqui]

2. When this guy goes, they're going to publish a big, thick book of stupid ...

Pence and his infected press secretary at a nursing home without masks yesterday might be more lethal though ..

[hlthe2b]

3. Whoever wrote that article is really ill informed. They are using rapid antigen tests, not antibody.

Thus the reason for daily testing.

That said, I certainly agree this is unconscionable and I can only hope like hell those 90 plus yo veterans are not harmed from Trump's ignorance, irresponsibility, and arrogance.

[CloudWatcher]

4. 78,599

Current US death count is 78,599 (*), no word yet on how many of them were "very surprised" to have been killed by the virus. But I suspect it was the vast majority of them. We have a strong culture of "it couldn't ever happen to me."

[magicarpet]

6. It is all just a media event designed to make him look approachable, compassionate, and caring.

The re-election team will incessantly play the media until November 2020, in order to get this Fascist beast re-elected to his second term of pilfering, plundering and debauchery of the US Treasury.

[hatrack]

7. I read the first sentence, second paragraph as "contaminated the 75th anniversary" . . .

Which fits.

[cayugafalls]

8. Your title reminded me of the movie Aliens...what dump did was stupid.

What else should we expect from the Stupen-fuhrer...

[CatWoman]

9. that's what I was thinking of when I first read the story

and we don't even have a Bishop!!!!!

[eleny]

10. Toxicity is his specialty

[uponit7771]

11. Straight up expected to see New Yorker or Onion ... seriously

[area51]

13. Trump: "Plus the wind was blowing so hard...."

Something's really blowing, but it's not the wind.

[Beringia]

14. He is the plague so it already reached them and us