Posted on 04/05/2020 3:26:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON There was a knock on our NBC News workspace door at the White House. I first assumed it was a colleague or a press aide coming by with an update. Instead, it was a White House official I'd never seen before with a forehead thermometer in his hand.
He had come to take my temperature before I could go into the White House briefing. The first reading he took was high; I'd been sitting by a heater at my desk for the past hour, but still my heart started to race. Several panic-inducing seconds later, I passed and was given a round, orange sticker to wear indicating I was allowed into the briefing room.
It was the third time my temperature was taken that day, the earlier two in a makeshift white tent set up outside the gate to the White House grounds.
It was all just part of the strange new reality of covering the White House amid a pandemic that officials have predicted could kill 100,000 to 240,000 Americans.
A few minutes later, I headed to the briefing room. Back in the days before the daily briefings ended over a year ago, the events were standing-room-only and the space would start to fill up an hour before it was scheduled to begin. People lacking designated seats clogged the aisles. Getting to my assigned seat was like trying to squeeze to the front row of a rock concert. I'd often go out early just to avoid the crush.
But today I waited until the very last moment.
I wanted to spend as little time as possible outside NBC's enclosed workspace. And there would be no fighting for space, because the White House Correspondents' Association has limited the number of reporters to follow social distancing guidelines.
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my heart started to race
Give me a damn break. Temperature screening should be much more widespread, and this poor little snowflake needs to get a grip.
I advocated a couple weeks ago for using infrared cameras to do mass screenings in airports. Theres no longer an immediate need, as no one is going to airports. But when air travel returns, such a thing might be desirable.
Just a thought....but couldn’t the fake press guys just write a 140-letter question....throwing them all into a hat, and let Trump or his assembled guests pull the questions out and respond to them....with the press 500 feet away in some private office area?
Seems if we were all on the same page of being hygienic and ‘safe’, that’d be the way to go.
Did the White House really ban the reporter from One America News?
Translation: "We in the Media are wholesome, healthy and good.
The rest of the White House has bad, stupid, sick Trump people".
Because Trump is Hitler, dontcha know.
My guess is when air travel resumes theres gonna be a bunch of new tech. It wouldnt surprise me if after coming in from abroad one would have to pass a 15 minute quick test. No virus gets in.
No the White House Correspondents Association banned her. But supposedly Trump is letting her attend anyway.
This screening also protects members of the press.
“The first reading he took was high; I’d been sitting by a heater at my desk for the past hour, but still my heart started to race. Several panic-inducing seconds later, I passed...”
IOW - “I’m very scared! Be scared, everyone! Be very scared!”
She should be given a Purple Heart, or at least hailed as a National Hero.
Shannon Pettypiece
Why do we even need these creeps at the Whiite House anyways?
Actually I think it got handled appropriately at the Press Secretary level, no need for Trump to get involved. The board of the Correspondents Association is a bunch of Leftist media hacks. The Press Secretary should just upend the whole mess and give guaranteed spots to FNC, OAN, the Washington Times, the NY Post, maybe WND, etc.
She’s got the appropriate name for a lib journalist anyway. Lol
This is the “norm” in South Korea. When I flew in to the country a FLIR camera checked every passengers temperature as they came in to the customs hall. This is the norm in Asian airports. I would go to my hotel and the bell man would check my temperature in the lobby each time I entered the hotel. I would go to work and I could not get on the military base without having my temperature checked. 36.5 C ... (97.7 F) each time, no sweat.
No
The correspondent association tried to....
....but Stephanie Grisham let her in as a guest
“Why do we even need these creeps at the Whiite House anyways?”
We don’t. As someone else posted, let them submit their questions in writing early. Or they could text questions in real time. It’s Trump’s fault that these turn in to free-for-alls.
I’m disgusted to see them sit there and argue and defy the President Of The United States, and interrupt him when he’s talking. Especially that fat ass black chick who’s been beat with an ugly stick. She stands there and interrupts. The gall!
Trump heeds to shut it down, or revise the format so the briefings are respectful.
Pettypiece? What an appropriate name for a journ-o-list.
This only weeds out symptomatic people. Not good enough. Trump should not be in the same room with any of them. I’m worried about Trump. Don’t care about these jerks.
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