It is not my style and I don't think I'm good at this but can I get a wee bit ranty about the COVID situation at the Capitol?
NO ONE is:
a. Enforcing standards for quarantining after exposures.
b. They need to wait for negative test results before doing things like, oh, voting.
Cap Hill COVID.
c. Members are saying the Attending Physician is fine with them going on the floor before getting results. And NOT quarantining if they've already had COVID.
d. It seems clear *most* everyone is finding a reason that *they* don't have to quarantine.
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Cap Hill COVID.
Example: Granger was on the House floor extensively when she was COVID positive. (Just had not gotten results yet.)
She arrived early for her attendance vote, chatted, sat near others. Was there significant time.
NEW: Biden statement *slamming* Trump, Meadows and Pence for coronavirus statements and response this weekend to latest outbreak at the WH.
Thread...
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BIDEN: "White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows stunningly admitted this morning that the administration has given up on even trying to control this pandemic, that they've given up on their basic duty to protect the American people. This wasn't a slip by Meadows ..."
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BIDEN MORE:
"... [Meadow's statement] was a candid acknowledgement of what President Trump's strategy has clearly been from the beginning of this crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that by ignoring it, the virus would simply go away. It hasn't, and it won't."
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Even for this time of divide, Biden and Trump are remarkably different people and politicians.
But let me first start with the lesser-known fact, what they have in common.
(Thread)
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Biden and Trump both:
- Were born in the 1940s, kids in the years rt after WWII.
- Went to private school for HS. (Biden got an on-campus job to help pay)
- Were of age but did not serve in Vietnam. (Biden got student deferrals, Trump a medical deferral for a "bone spur")
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