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BumRushDaShow

(129,543 posts) Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:09 PM Jun 2020

Two more Trump staffers test positive for coronavirus after Tulsa rally

Source: CNN

(CNN)Two staffers who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus, Trump's campaign said Monday. "After another round of testing for campaign staff in Tulsa, two additional members of the advance team tested positive for the coronavirus. These staff members attended the rally but were wearing masks during the entire event. Upon the positive tests, the campaign immediately activated established quarantine and contact tracing protocols," Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told CNN in a statement.

The two positive tests, first reported by CNBC, bring the total number of Trump advance team staffers in Tulsa who tested positive for coronavirus to eight. Hours before Trump's Saturday rally, the campaign said that six staffers working on the rally tested positive for coronavirus.

Murtaugh said in a statement then that "per safety protocols, campaign staff are tested for COVID-19 before events. Six members of the advance team tested positive out of hundreds of tests performed, and quarantine procedures were immediately implemented." "No COVID-positive staffers or anyone in immediate contact will be at today's rally or near attendees and elected officials," he said.

Attendees at Trump's rally were not required to wear a mask or practice social distancing, despite the Trump administration's top public health officials stressing the importance of both measures in preventing the spread of coronavirus. Several administration officials at the rally did not wear masks, though campaign manager Brad Parscale was seen in one. After Trump finished speaking in Tulsa, a person familiar with matter told CNN that two Secret Service agents had also tested positive for coronavirus.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/two-staffers-coronavirus-trump-rally/index.html

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Two more Trump staffers test positive for coronavirus after Tulsa rally (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2020 OP

Good thing those advance people went first to suck up all the Covid in the hall . . . Journeyman Jun 2020 #1

So these two spread it around to everyone ace3csusm Jun 2020 #2

They spread it around to all the other staffers. SoFlaBro Jun 2020 #3

You are a 100% correct and the circle continues ... ace3csusm Jun 2020 #4

It pains me greatly to realize Hock_Mir_Keyn_Chinek Jun 2020 #5

You're Not Alone sfstaxprep Jun 2020 #7

Hypocrites. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2020 #6

They got sick of winning IronLionZion Jun 2020 #8

"t two Secret Service agents had also tested positive for coronavirus." riversedge Jun 2020 #9

Hopefully close enough to lick their toothbrushes. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #10

For someone who wants to decrease testing, he seems to test a lot around himself. keithbvadu2 Jun 2020 #11

Journeyman

(15,041 posts)

1. Good thing those advance people went first to suck up all the Covid in the hall . . .

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:12 PM

Jun 2020

Otherwise, President Drink Bleach might have been infected.

(We'll know for certain in the next week or so.)

ace3csusm

(969 posts)

2. So these two spread it around to everyone

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:36 PM

Jun 2020

They where already infected they just didnt test positive or didnt test at all...

SoFlaBro

(1,954 posts)

3. They spread it around to all the other staffers.

Reply to ace3csusm (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:39 PM

Jun 2020

Then they went home to spread it around D.C. a little more.

ace3csusm

(969 posts)

4. You are a 100% correct and the circle continues ...

Reply to SoFlaBro (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:45 PM

Jun 2020

Maybe they really dont want to flatten the line...its like watching a the Titanic sink over and over again eventually we have to say let sink.

Hock_Mir_Keyn_Chinek

(51 posts)

5. It pains me greatly to realize

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:45 PM

Jun 2020

that THEY have caused me to wish that each and every one of them get it, and that each and every one of them infect someone they care about, and that a whole bunch of them die, or suffer long-term debilitating after effects. I would have been horrified to hear myself utter such wishes earlier in my life. Now, I hope they all just go to blazes. The staff, the crew, the followers, and of course, Dear Leader himself.

sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)

7. You're Not Alone

Reply to Hock_Mir_Keyn_Chinek (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:49 PM

Jun 2020

I actually wish for bad things to happen to them. They couldn't care less about me, and that's exactly how I feel about their health.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)

6. Hypocrites.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:48 PM

Jun 2020

Note the claim to have "activated established quarantine and contact tracing protocols" in response to positive tests in staff and "per safety protocols, campaign staff are tested for COVID-19 before events".

But their own attendees were not required to wear masks or be tested and tRump has called the virus a hoax and balked on funding full, organized testing or contact tracing for the general public.

KY..............