US - Some politicians possibly not following COVID-19 protocols - smarter than the rest of us?

[Mary Wilson]

By ZO? JACKSON , STAR TRIBUNE
October 03, 2020 - 9:31 AM

Minnesota’s three Republican congressmen flew home on a Delta flight from Washington, D.C., Friday night, despite airline restrictions on passengers recently exposed to COVID-19-positive people such as President Donald Trump.

U.S. Reps. Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer and Jim Hagedorn all tested negative for COVID-19 on Friday after traveling with Trump on Air Force One to and from a Duluth rally on Wednesday.

Delta policy states that the airline will not allow anyone knowingly exposed to COVID-19 in the past 14 days to travel. Health experts advise a 14-day quarantine after close exposure to someone with COVID-19 even if an initial test proves negative.

She said the flight was less than 40% full and that no one left the plane before it took off to protest the three officials’ presence.

https://m.startribune.com/3-minn-gop-house-members-fly-delta-home-after-covid-19-exposure/572619782/

 

[sharon sanders]

I will add the famous August 31 event where Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, got her hair done inside a salon in San Francisco where that activity was lawfully prohibited due to COVID-19. Also, she did not wear a mask at the time.

I am not providing a link because I can not find one unbiased report.

Please google it.

 

[sharon sanders]

Deborah Birx - in contradiction to her medical advice as a lead member of the White House pandemic team....

Very troubling because this represents how most people feel that the elite establish rules for everyone else but they are smarter and better able to assess their risk than the rest of us - so they are entitled to make exceptions for themselves.

They think they are smarter than everyone else.


Birx travels, family visits highlight pandemic safety perils


By AAMER MADHANI and BRIAN SLODYSKO

WASHINGTON (AP) — As COVID-19 cases skyrocketed before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, warned Americans to “be vigilant” and limit celebrations to “your immediate household.”

For many Americans that guidance has been difficult to abide, including for Birx herself.

The day after Thanksgiving, she traveled to one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware. She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households. Birx, her husband Paige Reffe, a daughter, son-in-law and two young grandchildren were present.

more..

https://apnews.com/article/travel-pa...b70746bdc9bc61

 

[sharon sanders]

This is all a slap in the face to regular people. I am high risk so I am basically restricted to my house. Sometimes I have a driveway conversation with someone at a distance of about 12 feet. For Thanksgiving I ate outside at a separate table 10 feet away and brought my own food and utensils. It was still a fun time.

If people can not walk their talk then they should shut up.

 

[Shiloh]

Politicians eat own words after dining out, taking trips
By JULIET WILLIAMSDecember 2, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Their messaging has been clear: wear a mask, stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly: stay home!

But their actions aren’t living up to the rhetoric, creating a real political problem for some of the most vocal leaders in California’s fight to contain the coronavirus.

First came Gov. Gavin Newsom, who won plaudits for issuing the first statewide stay-at-home order in the U.S. back in March. He broke the state rules when he and his wife were caught dining with 10 others at the posh French Laundry restaurant in Napa in early November with lobbyists and others from numerous different households, sitting close together, mask-less.

San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, was at the same $350-a-plate restaurant a day later, dining with a San Francisco socialite and six others. Breed has also won accolades for imposing some of the strictest rules in California, keeping coronavirus rates relatively low. Her spokespeople haven’t responded to queries about how many households were there — state rules cap those at three. Her spokesman rubbed salt in the wound by saying she has been trying to support local restaurants. The French Laundry is 60 miles (97 kilometers) out of town.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo on Tuesday fessed up to an outdoor Thanksgiving dinner at his parents’ home with people from five different households after tweeting that everyone should just stay home this Thanksgiving. And a Los Angeles County supervisor headed to dinner outside a restaurant hours after she voted against a measure that would have kept outdoor dining open, calling it “a most dangerous situation.”

“We’re all really feeling the strain of this, but there is really that element of hypocrisy. So many who are struggling right now, and then you see them going to these very fancy social affairs and mixing with folks outside their immediate bubble,” said Melinda Jackson, a political science professor at San Jose State University.

Other Democrats have also been caught flouting their own guidance. Austin, Texas, Mayor Steve Adler was forced to apologize Wednesday after a newspaper reported that he was in Mexico with family in November as he urged people to stay home amid worsening coronavirus caseloads, at one point recording a video during the trip in which he told residents back home that now was “not the time to relax.” The mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, asked residents to “forgive decisions that are borne of my heart and not my head” after traveling to Mississippi for Thanksgiving while he told others to stay home...

 

[Mary Wilson]

WH virus coordinator Deborah Birx says she will retire


By AAMER MADHANI and BRIAN SLODYSKO today

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, said Tuesday she plans to retire, but is willing to first help President-elect Joe Biden’s team with its coronavirus response as needed.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-bide...AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow