Wednesday, March 25, 2020

No one is immune, folks

Several guests who attended a disco-themed birthday party at President Trump’s Los Angeles golf course this month have since contracted the coronavirus.

The March 8 party was held in an upstairs ballroom at the Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes. Roughly 70 people were invited to the event — a 70th birthday party of the town’s former mayor, Susan Brooks — including several local officials.

Since then, Brooks, as well as the current mayor, John Cruikshank, have both tested positive for the coronavirus. Los Angeles County supervisor Janice Hahn, who also attended the party, said she heard 17 people who were there reported falling ill, although she didn’t know how many have been tested for the virus.

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The party came more than a week before Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) ordered California residents to stay home, and Trump Los Angeles has since closed. But the coronavirus still weighed on some guests’ minds at the time.

Hahn, the county supervisor, said she was cognizant of the virus at the party.

“I was very aware of trying not to touch people. I wasn’t even fist-bumping or toe-tapping,” Hahn said. “I was bowing and saying namaste.”

  WaPo
Almost as brilliant as Trump's ambassador to South Africa who thought going to a party outside in Florida would be okay because of the warm weather.
Guests crowded onto the dance floor and shared a microphone for speeches. People were “hugging and kissing and some even trying to insinuate to me that this was being overblown and it was media pollution,” Hahn said.

A week later, Brooks learned she’d tested positive for the virus.

In a brief interview, her daughter, Meredith Brooks, said that she hopes the situation can be a reminder of how quickly the virus spreads “in a party where nobody had any symptoms, and nobody knew they were ill.”
And still, Florida's governor won't call for shelter-in-place.  But he HAS asked for a federal major disaster declaration for the state.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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