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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has tested positive for COVID-19, DHS confirmed on Tuesday – just days after he attended an event with President Biden. A DHS spokesperson told Fox that contract tracing was underway after Mayorkas tested positive Tuesday morning. "Secretary Mayorkas is experiencing only mild congestion; he is fully vaccinated and will isolate and work at home per CDC protocols and medical advice," a DHS spokesperson said. The diagnosis comes after Mayorkas attended the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol alongside President Biden on Saturday. While it was not clear what sort of...

Viewers have slammed the Emmys after hundreds of celebrities packed into the awards show without masks or social distancing, despite ongoing warnings in LA about the spread of Covid-19. Even Seth Rogen, who presented the first award, seemed taken aback, saying the guests were packed inside a 'hermetically-sealed tent' and 'lied about it being outside.' While the Emmys was technically considered as an 'outdoor event,' the ceremony took place inside an enclosed tent.

As part of our continuing effort to keep readers properly informed I thought that we might offer you a primer on how to know for sure how to define a “superspreader” event. Here we go Trump Rose Garden ceremony Verdict: SUPERSPREADERJan 6 protests Verdict: SUPERSPREADERSturgis Verdict: SUPERSPREADERTrump election party Verdict: SUPERSPREADERCollege football games Verdict: SUPERSPREADERobama birthday party Verdict: NOT A SUPERSPREADERVerdict: NOT A SUPERSPREADERGavin Newsom party at the French Laundry Verdict: NOT A SUPERSPREADERAny Black Lives Matter protest Verdict: NOT A SUPERSPREADER(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...

Biden's granddaughter Naomi cut a stylish figure in a metallic dress with a plunging neckline while attending a luxurious wedding in Como, Italy, with her boyfriend Peter Neal over the weekend. The 26-year old Columbia Law student, who is the daughter of Hunter Biden and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, was seen sipping champagne and sharing a sweet kiss with Peter on Saturday at Tarek Shakarchi and Tulya Efe's black-tie nuptials at Villa Olmo. Naomi looked chic in her tiered midi dress, which featured a deep V-neck and long sleeves. She added a pop of color to her shimmery gunmetal frock...

Mask-pushing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was apparently caught addressing an outdoor crowd of mask-less Democratic big wigs in COVID-19-riddled Napa Valley over the weekend, according to video and tweets. A clip of the close-quartered fund-raiser was posted on Facebook by Democratic Party donor and winemaker Kathryn Walt Hall — and promptly blasted out on Twitter. The footage appeared to show dozens of unmasked people seated elbow to elbow at long luncheon tables as Pelosi gave a speech and masked waiters ambled between the listeners. “All the servants fully masked,” tweeted journalist Glenn Greenwald. “The almost-entirely old, white, rich crowd of...

Vice President Kamala Harris chuckled at and cut off a reporter to say that Afghanistan is the administration's top priority. Harris, who is currently traveling through South Asia, was asked about the situation in Afghanistan, where the United States and other Western countries have been rapidly working to get their own citizens as well as Afghan refugees out of the country since the Taliban took over. “Hold on. Hold on. Slow down, everybody," she said when approached with questions after disembarking from her voyage. "Hahaha. Um, I want to talk about two things. First, Afghanistan — we couldn’t have a...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) was seen without her mask over the weekend at a Democrat Party fundraiser event full of unmasked attendees. The event was hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Napa, California, where Pelosi was seen delivering remarks unmasked. The event was exclusively for old white liberals at a super spreader event while their ethnic, masked staff wait on them hand and foot. How minorities continue to be the turkeys that vote for Christmas baffles me. The video wasn’t intended to be released for public use but our team received the video this morning! Video...

A New York Times star columnist has lashed Barack Obama for axing people who helped him to the top from his lavish 60th birthday guest list in favor of A-list stars. Maureen Dowd branded Obama 'Barack Antoinette' - a reference to the out-of-touch renaissance queen - and likened him to Jay Gatsby, the shallow people-pleaser from F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby in her scathing piece, published Saturday. She highlighted how the former president cut his ex-chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and former campaign strategist David Axelrod from the original 600-person guest list, despite both helping him secure his...

A total of 63 people on Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for Covid- 19 since former President Barack Obama's 60th birthday extravaganza last Saturday, more than any week since April. -snip- Hundreds of people attended Obama's birthday bash Saturday, flying in from around the country and congregating under tents where partiers danced, ate and drank the night away on his estate in Edgartown. He gathered with friends Thursday at the Barn Bowl & Bistro, joined a larger kick-off celebration Friday at the luxury Winnetu Oceanside Resort. Obama followed up his party with a brunch Sunday at Beach Road restaurant, dining...

Erykah Badu is singing the blues after unintentionally sparking Obama drama on social media. The soulful Grammy Award winner took to Twitter seeking the former first family’s forgiveness for being a "terrible guest" by posting pictures and videos of Barack Obama’s massive 60th birthday party in Martha’s Vineyard on Aug. 7. "Mr. And Mrs. Obama, Please forgive me 4 being the ‘terrible guest’ at such a sacred event for your family," Badu, 50, real name Erica Wright, tweeted Thursday. The "Window Seat" singer’s unauthorized social media posts showed the birthday boy with wife Michelle, 57, dancing mask-free among the hundreds...

(CNN)There is no indication two weeks after Lollapalooza that the music festival contributed to a spike in Covid-19 infections, a Chicago health official said Thursday, despite attracting an estimated 385,000 attendees.... Among vaccinated attendees, there were 127 diagnosed with Covid-19, Arwady said. That's just 0.04%, or four in 10,000 vaccinated attendees. "Among unvaccinated attendees we did, as expected, see a higher rate of Covid cases, but it was still low," she said. There were 76 unvaccinated attendees who reported testing positive, Arwady said -- 0.16% or 16 in 10,000 unvaccinated attendees. "And as of yesterday we had no hospitalizations or...

Rising coronavirus cases on Martha’s Vineyard have some businesses taking extra precautions ahead of a busy stretch of late-summer festivals. Covid-19 cases have shot back up on Martha’s Vineyard, with health agents reporting 48 new positive tests during the first week in August, including three case clusters Earlier this week, as word of Saturday’s shindig circulated on the island, many expressed surprise — not because director Steven Spielberg and singer Usher were rumored to be attending, but because COVID-19 cases are on the increase in Massachusetts. Even among fans of the former president, of which there are many on Martha’s...

An outbreak at a migrant processing center in Tacoma, Washington, has infected at least 150 people, the Seattle Times reported Tuesday. COVID-19 has infected at least 150 individuals, including seven guards and a federal health care worker, since the outbreak at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center in Tacoma in early June, the Seattle Times reported, based on a lawyer’s account of events. The lawyer, Aaron Korthuis of Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, additionally claimed that the agency has released 570 migrants deemed high-risk of contracting COVID-19 from the facility, according to the Seattle Times. Due to the pandemic,...

Obama's party sophisticated, so not super spreader. Bikers Sturgeon gathering not sophisticated. Super spreader.

The Sturgis (SD) Motorcycle Rally is underway in ends next Sunday, and the Wuhan fearmongers are hard at work demonizing the event.If you aren’t familiar with the event, every year at this time, some 450,000 motorcyclists, plus or minus, descend upon the town of Sturgis, SD (population 6,700) for a week of consciousness-raising, scholarly conferences, and the presentation of academic papers. Of course, there are also adult beverages, substances legal and illegal, and celebrations of the biker culture…I’m looking forward to Sturgis joining “Juneteenth” on the Pantheon of holidays.There is some mild depravity, like the Bikini Bike Wash, but nothing...

Former President Barack Obama reportedly continued to celebrate his 60th birthday Sunday with a brunch gathering of his friends at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard, marking the third straight day of pandemic partying for the Obamas. The Sunday brunch took place at a waterfront restaurant, with photographs showing Barack and Michelle Obama seated amid a crowd of friends, none of whom could be seen wearing masks as they socialized in close proximity, according to a report from the Daily Mail.

Talk about the upper crust life, huh? Former President Barack Obama has his bougie birthday party over the weekend. There were tons of guests. It was a superspreader event if we’re going by the liberal media’s rules. COVID is back in the news, and the media is beyond aroused by it. They’re getting off on rising cases, deaths, and hospitalizations. They’re also using this as their PSA bullhorn to tell people to get vaccinated. Should we get the shot? Yes, I think they should. Should they be forced? No. There are a ton of people who don’t like vaccine mandates...

Remember last summer? When Dr. Anthony Fauci and public health experts told us that nationwide protests and riots were required because systemic racism was a more significant public health threat than COVID-19? However, if you protested lockdown orders because it was killing your small business or you attended a Trump rally, you were killing grandma? So much science.To this day, the media tells us that the protests and riots with thousands of people in the streets were not a source of transmission for COVID-19. Then everyone freaked out over the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota. Governor Kristi Noem...

For the past 18 months, fewer people have been louder than America’s celebrities when it comes to insisting that “the little people” wear masks. Showing once again that celebrities believe themselves to be above those rules, it appears that for many, if not most, of the attendees at Obama’s 60th birthday bash, there wasn’t a mask to be seen. Tom Hanks has no respect for people wearing masks. His exact words are, “If you can’t wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance, I’ve got no respect for you, man.” George Clooney drops F-bombs at people who don’t...

As word got out that 700+ COVID super shedders were adjusting party hats in preparation for the "44-at-60" ass-kissing-fest on Martha's Vineyard, to quiet critics, Obama announced he was "scaling back" the Obamapalooza to include just "close family and friends." For regular folks like you and me, the words "close family and friends," usually means Grandma, the kids, and a boxed Duncan Hines birthday cake. But not for Shelley and Barry. As seaplanes full of victims of institutional and structural racism descended on Martha's Vineyard, "scaled back," became the most disingenuous parsing of words since "It depends on what the...