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Oct 3, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Seeing people pointing out that Kellyanne was talking to this or that person at what looks like the spread event on Saturday. Folks are missing the logic here. It looks like she and other likely **contracted** covid there. If that’s true, she’s not contagious.
2/ Covid is just making first contact with her body at that point. There’s likely one or two people there who gave it to everybody. We might not ever know what that was. Now this of course assuming that the Barrett nomination event is the spreader event and we don’t know that.
3/ But there’s growing circumstantial evidence that it was. And that’s how to think about it if that’s the case. Other point. We have a lot of evidence that covid doesn’t spread well outdoors. There were receptions inside the White House tied to event. We’ve seen a few ...
4/ pictures of those receptions. Zero masks.

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