The amazing thing is that it took this long.
There had been a lot of near misses:
Bolsonaro's entourage back in the spring:
cnn.com/2020/05/13/ame…
His valet in May: cnn.com/2020/05/07/pol…
Katie Miller, around the same time: politico.com/news/2020/05/0…
Campaign staff who worked his Tulsa rally in June:
apnews.com/article/23796a…
His National Security Advisor, in July:
cnn.com/2020/07/27/pol…
Those are just the ones we know about. And I'm sure I've missed some.
Despite this many close calls, he and his team still weren't masking, still weren't distancing, still weren't taking the risk seriously.
This was preventable. Trump and his team chose not to prevent it.
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