I am kind of shocked by this, because I feel like even if I was around people with COVID, I would not get it, because I am following procedures to protect myself.
It always surprises me to find out that people are not doing this, as it doesn’t cost anything. I never hang around within 6 feet of anybody. Everybody at work wears masks all the time, we limit our meeting sizes, but I go further and simply make sure I never am talking close to anybody, and don’t hang around talking for more than a few minutes if I can help it; and when I can’t, I disinfect my hands and the area I sit before I sit down, and I do it again when I leave for the next person. I wash my hands when I have to touch things, although I am not afraid of touch actually.
I would assume that protecting the president would be more serious than protecting me.
I would love to find out how Hope got it. But it sounds like she might have been sick before the debate; because if she just met someone at the debate and got it, I doubt she would have been contagious enough to infect the president, and of course the report says she isolated on the return flight, so she had symptoms.
But as a close advisor, I am shocked they were not testing her every day, and it amazes me that she could have been infectious before the test detected anything.
I am also shocked that people who should know better are so careless. I fully understand the pushback on mandatory mask wearing ect. But we really should be looking at the risk versus the reward. Some of us are not complying to make a point but that point kind of gets lost if and when you get sick. We don’t need dead patriots, we desperately need live ones.