With COVID-19 closing in on Joe Biden, the White House is furiously defending its social distancing protocol and bracing for the possibility the president may get it himself.
A slew of high ranking Cabinet members, communications staff, Democratic senators, Biden’s sister, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris have all tested positive for coronavirus in recent days.
Pelosi got it just two days after Biden embraced and kissed her on the cheek at a White House ceremony — an encounter officials insist does not count as close contact with a COVID carrier because it didn’t last 15 minutes.
An unmasked Biden and unmasked Harris both appeared at an elaborate event on Friday celebrating Ketanji Brown Jackson’s elevation to the Supreme Court.
Harris’s communications director tested positive for COVID this week and she was in close contact with him, but it didn’t prevent her from attending the ceremony. And Harris did not wear a mask after having close contact with her COVID-stricken aide.
If all this had happened under Donald Trump’s watch, he would have been pilloried for spreading COVID and being irresponsible.
“It is possible he (Biden) will test positive for COVID at some point,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield acknowledged.
White House officials say they are taking extra precaution to protect Biden, but it doesn’t look like it.
If Biden were to contract COVID, it would be a huge setback to the president’s efforts to keep the disease under control and stay in charge.
The question now is what will happen if Biden does test positive? The odds are he’ll just get mild symptoms but what will the political damage be?
Will he need to be hospitalized? The president is 79 years old with a history of health problems that could make him vulnerable to a serious bout with the disease.
If he is hospitalized or even goes into quarantine for five days, will Harris take over as acting president? The media will demand to know who gave COVID to Biden, but chances are we won’t know.
Would getting COVID put Biden in a position of weakness at a critical time in the world? Biden is already dealing with a crisis in Ukraine and political problems at home like rising gas prices that have sent his approval numbers tumbling to record lows.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who has battled COVID twice, spent much of the daily briefing on Thursday and Friday defending the White House’s actions and dismissing the possibility that Biden could test positive because of his close proximity to Pelosi and others.
Psaki claimed Biden was not considered a “close contact” with Pelosi because the kiss didn’t meet CDC standards for a close contact — a claim which seems ludicrous at face value.
“The way a close contact is defined, it’s not arbitrary, it’s not something made up by the White House, it’s CDC guidelines, and how they define it is being within six feet for a cumulative total of 15 minutes over a 24-hour period. They were not.”
Biden nevertheless was tested late this week and came out negative, and he’s expected to get regular tests over the next few days and weeks.
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Damn, Joe—you go, Boy. Don’t forget to sniff her hair.
Hey, Jill—come check this out.
Justice delayed is Justice denied,,,,so COVID delayed is Reality denied and herd immunity denied for months and years. Nature has a way of getting even with those who ignore her laws of survival of the fittest versus survival of the witless. These reality denying Democrats are about to be naturally culled out of office like exposed sheep in an election hurricane, powered by the winds of revelation of the stupidity of their attempts to control a free people brave enough to ignore their lies and live free or die brave. It is the brave who will survive this next election because THE PEOPLE refuse to be cowered by the cowards of the Country whose false promises of political Party protection have now come back upon their own persons. If the COVID doesn’t get Joe, perhaps it is some spirochetes passed to him from a Hunter offered girlfriend on a lonely trip to China, that Joe got more than his 10% of, now are eating away at his brain, that will get him in the end and he will go out the same well-earned way another crime family leader like Al Capone did. More likely Putin or XI have already planted some COVID into Nancy’s hair like our CIA tried to take out Castro by lacing his cigars with poison.
“The question now is what will happen if Biden does test positive? The odds are he’ll just get mild symptoms but what will the political damage be?”
We the People probably will never be told if “Let’s Go Brandon” does test positive.
“Psaki claimed Biden was not considered a “close contact” with Pelosi because the kiss didn’t meet CDC standards for a close contact — a claim which seems ludicrous at face value.”
The entire Democrat Party cult and its supporting disciples are ludicrous, dishonest and deranged.
EVEN if he does, will anything change??
Well, this is a free and democratic republic they are living in and enjoying. It’s too bad the rest of the populace does not qualify. Just remember, or they should, that they will reap what they sow.