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Washington parties on, as Covid threatens to crash the festivities
NBC News ^ | April 30, 2022 | Shannon Pettypiece

Posted on 04/30/2022 5:59:25 AM PDT by deport

WASHINGTON — Despite a recent rise in Covid cases, including that of Vice President Kamala Harris this week, Washington’s highest-profile figures swung into the weekend partying like it’s 2019. Almost.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner was scheduled to be held for the first time in three years Saturday night in a hotel ballroom packed with more than 2,000 attendees, including members of Congress, top government officials, Hollywood celebrities and much of the Washington press corps.

President Joe Biden will attend a portion of the event, something his predecessor refused to do over his four-year term. Attendees are required to show proof of vaccination and a negative Covid test before entering the dinner, but there will be no mask requirement or social distancing.

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Covid be damned, we gonna party
1 posted on 04/30/2022 5:59:25 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

They keep trying, but no one believes them anymore.
Shove it, media.


2 posted on 04/30/2022 6:01:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: deport

More like an Irish wake methinks.


3 posted on 04/30/2022 6:01:43 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: deport

Marxist ‘RAT super spreader event. Perfect.


4 posted on 04/30/2022 6:03:12 AM PDT by twister881
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To: deport

Perfect time for members of the DEM senate to catch it. They MUST be in chambers for any vote.


5 posted on 04/30/2022 6:03:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: deport

You mean Trump didn’t attend the Liars Club Banquet?

That may be the only thing they aren’t lying about!


6 posted on 04/30/2022 6:08:08 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: deport

The dinner was scheduled to be the apex of a weekend of glitzy Washington events that include cocktail parties at high-end restaurants, brunches in stately mansions and late-night dancing to DJs at the Kennedy Center.

Glad to know the elites in the Capital are having their fun while the citizens of Panem figure out how to pay for food and fuel.


7 posted on 04/30/2022 6:08:28 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: deport

Hopefully they get something worse than covid 19-84.


8 posted on 04/30/2022 6:09:38 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: deport

Could be the prologue of one more Tom Clancey novel


9 posted on 04/30/2022 6:09:40 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Flick Lives

Dancing to DJs? Can’t they afford a band?


10 posted on 04/30/2022 6:15:12 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: deport

That’s because they know it’s not really a threat, and that they can get the Ivermectin and HCQ and other appropriate medical treatment denied to the rest of us.


11 posted on 04/30/2022 6:19:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: deport
Despite a recent rise in Covid cases false positives as a result of many people being tested for Covid because of symptoms from seasonal allergies caused by a very high pollen count...
12 posted on 04/30/2022 6:40:34 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Hopefully the RINOs will catch it right along with the Demoncrats. 🙂


13 posted on 04/30/2022 7:18:51 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: deport
...but there will be no mask requirement or social distancing.

Inside? Superspreader event.

14 posted on 04/30/2022 8:11:29 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: deport

Funny how the district of cartels beat Covid for the most part

until right before 2022 elections ?

Ooops, did we do that ?, well sorry but we will fix it with Covid protocol 2.0 including national no I.d. mail in ballots.


15 posted on 04/30/2022 10:09:18 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

The propaganda has gone 3D.

Maybe even 11 dimensions.


16 posted on 04/30/2022 10:10:38 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: deport

Stop it with the “COVID hysteria” media. Those of us with a brain have seen this evolve into a flu/cold and have dropped the mask BS (if you still wear a cloth mask against a virus you are a special kind of moron).


17 posted on 04/30/2022 10:11:55 AM PDT by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: deport

Edgar Allen Poe, The Masque of the Red Death.....


18 posted on 04/30/2022 10:33:00 AM PDT by ganeemead
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To: deport

Well everyone gets their big fat tax-break write offs ... millions of write offs for a damn few dollars that go for ‘scholarships’...

The ‘elites’ partying on our dime... and crapping on us while they’re doing it.

What jerks.


19 posted on 04/30/2022 10:57:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (Gumballs and illegals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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