Posted on 04/27/2022 10:51:46 AM PDT by KingofZion
More than 2,000 journalists, celebrities and politicians, including President Biden, are set to descend on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner this weekend in what is shaping up to be a major test of whether large gatherings can be safely held at this stage of the pandemic.
Organizers say they are committed to holding an event that significantly reduces the risk of coronavirus infections, pointing to vaccine and testing requirements that were strengthened after a dinner hosted by Washington’s Gridiron Club this month was linked to at least 80 infections that sickened Cabinet members, reporters and other guests.
Yet some White House officials and experts worry that those measures are insufficient and that this weekend’s events may become another high-profile superspreader event, said three administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue.
*** The correspondents’ dinner arrives after weeks of debate over whether such events are still too risky as fast-spreading subvariants of omicron, like BA. 2, circle the globe — or if risking coronavirus is just one more hazard of normal life in 2022, given the expanding number of treatments to keep the virus from progressing to severe disease in most people.
The Gridiron Club outbreak “shows what living with covid-19 looks like,” Leana Wen, a Washington Post contributor, wrote this month, saying that cases are inevitable and cheering that party’s return. “Nearly all of us will contract covid-19. Let’s prepare for when we do and resume living our lives in the meantime.”
But at least some individuals are choosing to bow out. Anthony S. Fauci, the president’s top medical adviser, has canceled his plans to attend the dinner, citing his personal risks...
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Let’s coin the term COVID Drag
and many of our kids STILL gotta wear masks in school?
and 40%+ are polling for Xoi Bei Din?
National Divorce is the Answer
No Civil War - just Civil Separation
Choose Freedom - Choose Peace
I hope someone got threatened with pepper spray.
It’s a Karen Konvention and all the Karens are backing out!
They have to have this correspondents dinner, so they can tell their abortion jokes. I sure hope they have a keynote “comedienne” again who tells abortion jokes, so they can prove what a sophisticated edgy liberal group they are.
sarcasm.
No one cares if DC gets Covid.
Maybe they’ll invite Kathy Griffen? I’m sure she has some great Biden jokes /sarc
Ding ding you are correct, no one outside of DC cares about dc
This is serious - here is an event where all the self-proclaimed movers and shakers in DC will be gathering and they could all be dead within days, and the danger is that they might not go.
They can get that whore Sarah Silverman.
“Nearly all of us will contract [a cold]. Let’s prepare for when we do and resume living our lives in the meantime.”
If they’ve been va cinated, then they have nothing to worry about, right?
Anthony S. Fauci, the president’s top medical adviser, has canceled his plans to attend the dinner, citing his personal risks.
What personal risk? Worried that someone might get the chance to punch him square in the face. That would make for awesome pay-per-view.
Fauci not going proves only one thing, HE IS A TYRANT AND A COWARD.
I find it interesting that it would appear that only leftists believe in those useless face virtue signalling toys. Oh well, if they REALLY wanted to follow the science...they’d not be leftists.
I got off a cruise 2 weeks ago that went to 3 different islands with staff from probably 50+ foreign countries.
Not one reported case of anything.
I’m no longer concerned.
“No Civil War - just Civil Separation”
Nope, we want the land.
Embrace the healing power of the guillotine.
the coochiella thing shoulda killed more people than cancer... right???
and yet, we all survived thru Winter of Suffering and Death
I chuckled heartily and maliciously!
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