The White House Goes Viral, Again, Con't

The ongoing White House COVID-19 outbreak (third in three months now, or more correctly one big giant outbreak over the last 90 days) has now spread to a number of Trump WH staff, including chief of staff Mark Meadows, who apparently tested positive this week and kept quiet for 48 hours after the election.

Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff who abided by President Trump’s efforts to play down the coronavirus throughout the summer, has contracted the virus himself, a senior administration official said on Friday night.

Mr. Meadows tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, the official said, and he told a small group of advisers. A Trump campaign adviser, Nick Trainer, has also learned he has the virus, a person briefed on his diagnosis said.

And four other White House officials tested positive for the virus, a person familiar with the diagnoses told The New York Times. Bloomberg News also reported on the additional cases.

One White House official, who asked for anonymity because the official was not allowed to speak publicly about internal discussions, said people were told to keep quiet about the various cases. That follows how Mr. Meadows reacted when there was an outbreak in Vice President Mike Pence’s office a few weeks ago. At the time, Mr. Meadows sought to keep those cases from becoming public.

His diagnosis came as the pandemic rampaged across the United States, which has averaged more than 100,000 new cases per day over the past week and hit another record on Friday, with more than 132,700 cases in a single day.

As of Saturday morning, more than 9,830,800 people in the United States had been infected with the coronavirus, and more than 236,500 had died.

Folks, I'm going to be honest with you. I'm terrified.

We're on track for 3,000,000 plus new cases of COVID-19 for the month of November, if not more.  The pandemic is now fully out of control, and the one percent of the entire country that will get this disease are just the ones getting tested, when far more will actually catch and spread it.

December will be worse, almost certainly.

A national lockdown over the holidays is necessary, but it won't happen, and state and local lockdowns will be blocked by Republicans anyway especially now.

By the time Biden takes office, we could possibly double the cases we have now.

More than 18 million.

It would be catastrophic.

And Trump and the GOP will make sure this country burns and hundreds of thousands die just to spite the people who didn't vote for them.