Pence had CEOs remove masks before meeting with him

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

hours after his press secretary tested positive for COVID-19.

The Trump administration is not only ignoring CDC and medical experts’ guidelines it is actively working to make Americans less safe.

On Friday Vice President Mike Pence flew aboard Air Force Two to Des Moines, Iowa, to meet with food industry CEOs. His flight was delayed after his press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for coronavirus. Several staffers were forced to exit the plane before it took off. Also board were Iowa Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

Pence held a roundtable discussion at the headquarters of the Hy-Vee supermarket chain. ... Five industry executives, seated at the table, all wearing masks, were approached by a staffer who asked them to remove their masks before the Vice President would come to the table.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/pence-had-ceos-remove-masks-before-meeting-with-him-hours-after-his-press-secretary-tested-positive-for-covid-19/?

[Squinch]

1. Why don't they say no???

[leftieNanner]

13. My exact reaction!! nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. They should absolutely all have said no.

[riversedge]

2. This has to be some kind of sick joke Right? I looked to see if it was the Onion.

[riversedge]

3. OmG. the CEO's just take off their masks -looks like no questions asked!! I wonder if they knew

Pence had been exposed??

BTW--why didn't Pence get off the plane ? like the others did back in DC. damn.

[tblue37]

14. No, because he had just found out! nt

[calimary]

26. What'd he do? Haul out his usual excuse - "well this is the first I've heard of it..."?

That's long been Pence's default answer to anything uncomfortable about his boss, to whom he clings like a starving wannabe lover, hoping for a crumb to fall from His Lordship's table.

[Mike Nelson]

4. I think...

... he's as bad as his boss.

[Rebl2]

21. Absolutely!

Have thought that from day one. Why would such a supposedly Christian man agree to be his VP.

[liberalla]

5. and now he's self isolating!

[raging moderate]

8. And his aide had no mask in the video.

And she went right up to each one and breathed in his face.

[LeftInTX]

11. Pence isn't self isolating...

Unless you have a link proving it, everything is hunky doory with Trump and Pence

[liberalla]

15. I read it in two threads here

here and here

But now I read that he's changed his mind... (below)

[LeftInTX]

17. Typical for this WH

[Rebl2]

22. Maybe trump

threatened him that if he self quarantined, he would drop him as his VP in upcoming election.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. Well, if he isn't self-isolating he's potentially exposing

lots and lots more people.

With any luck at all many of them . . . wait, I shouldn't go there.

Never mind.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Last update I saw says he has "changed his mind" and will not self isolate after all.

[liberalla]

19. TY for that update!

[stillcool]

6. all about the optics..

perception = reality

[LeftInTX]

7. Why?

That's so dumb and stupid

[Celerity]

10. dominance play, and framing for his christofascist, white nationalist, anti-science base of goons

[DURHAM D]

9. So are those 5 executives now self-isolating ? nt

[spanone]

16. Too bad the industry executives didn't tell the staffer to 'fuck off'.

Could be fatal

[Rebl2]

23. Exactly!

That or they could have refused to take their masks off. Why do people not stand up to these idiots.

[smirkymonkey]

18. What a selfish asshole!

I hope they will be self-isolating after this and not spreading it to their employees. Jesus effing Christ.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

20. Hope he infected all those pigs.