{"id":3587,"date":"2020-10-08T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2020-10-08T21:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:57:44","slug":"trump-and-his-staffs-refusal-to-wear-a-face-mask-is-a-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"Trump and his staff\u2019s refusal to wear a face mask is a catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“On Monday, we learned White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. McEnany \u2014 and others in the White House cluster<\/a> \u2014 failed to follow public health guidelines and quarantine, though she had been exposed to colleagues confirmed to have Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also briefed reporters twice \u2014 on Friday and Sunday \u2014 without wearing a mask, putting them at risk of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McEnany joins a list of at least 20 people <\/a>in the White House cluster \u2014 including two of McEnany\u2019s aides, White House staff, journalists, Congress members, and others \u2014 who\u2019ve tested positiveafter Trump<\/a> and first lady Melania Trump announced they tested positive<\/a> on Friday. White House aide Hope Hicks, who had traveled with the president earlier in the week, also tested positive and was reportedly experiencing symptoms Wednesday.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“the president and his staff\u2019s failureto consistently wear a face mask while in close contact with colleagues and reporters in the White House and in public settings \u2014 the guidance<\/a> of his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u2014 put them at higher risk for infection and of spreading the virus to others, since asymptomatic people can transmit the virus.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/10\/2\/21498414\/trump-coronavirus-mask-white-house-kayleigh-mcenany<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“On Monday, we learned White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. McEnany \u2014 and others in the White House cluster \u2014 failed to follow public health guidelines and quarantine, though she had been exposed to colleagues confirmed to have Covid-19.<\/p>\n

She also briefed reporters twice \u2014 on Friday and Sunday \u2014 without wearing a mask, putting them at risk of the virus.<\/p>\n

McEnany joins a list of at least 20 people in the White House cluster \u2014 including two of McEnany\u2019s aides, White House staff, journalists, Congress members, and others \u2014 who\u2019ve tested positive after Trump and first lady Melania Trump announced they tested positive on Friday. White House aide Hope Hicks, who had traveled with the president earlier in the week, also tested positive and was reportedly experiencing symptoms Wednesday.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the president and his staff\u2019s failure to consistently wear a face mask while in close contact with colleagues and reporters in the White House and in public settings \u2014 the guidance of his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u2014 put them at higher risk for infection and of spreading the virus to others, since asymptomatic people can transmit the virus.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,221,596,170],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-masks","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}