NEWS: Biden spent time on Air Force One on Friday with an aide who tested positive today for Covid-1

[demmiblue]

NEWS: Biden spent time on Air Force One on Friday with an aide who tested positive today for Covid-19, @PressSec says. President is negative so far.

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New: @POTUS was in proximity to a “mid-level staffer” on Friday on AF1 who today tested positive for #covid.

“This morning, after being notified of the staffer’s positive test, the President received a PCR test & tested negative. He will be tested again on Wednesday,” Psaki said

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[BlackSkimmer]

1. So I guess even his own staff can't get tested?

What the actual hell?

[Mr.Bill]

3. The staff member tested positive today.

He may have tested negative on Friday. I would be willing to bet Biden was wearing a mask when he was on the plane.

[BlackSkimmer]

4. I've seen him take his mask off even when close to others, so I'm not sure I'd bet on that.

I’ve seen him hugging people, even children who can’t be vaxxed. Shame that’s a problem, but it’s just a fact of life right now.

[Mr.Bill]

6. True, but some of that is because of playing to a camera.

Hopefully they wear masks when the public in not looking.

[Ms. Toad]

10. People who lead by example do not play to the camera by taking off their masks for the camera. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

12. No one is perfect.

I just saw video of Chuck Schumer walking down a hallway surrounded by press who were asking him questions and he was holding his mask in his hands. When he stopped speaking he looked like he was starting to put it on.

Something else I have noticed is a lot of people in congress and the White House are wearing cloth masks. With the new variant being so transmittable, N95s are needed. When Jen Psaki walked up to he podium, she was wearing what appeared to be a black cloth mask. When she removed it I think a saw what looked like an N95 white mask behind it.

[Ms. Toad]

22. Speaking does not provide magical protection from spreading COVID.

I teach every day wearing a mask. It's called putting safety first.

[Hortensis]

13. It says he tested negative, as required, before boarding Friday.

Apparently standard practice.

[Mr.Bill]

16. Yeah, I don't think anyone gets near the President

or the VP without getting tested.

[Hortensis]

21. Seems like pretty basic stuff. :)

[Ms. Toad]

23. That practice didn't protect Trump -

and it won't protect Biden or Harris.

[Mr.Bill]

24. Trump was a loose cannon. I doubt he listened to anything

anyone told him to do. He was well known to demand people remove their masks when speaking to him and not wear one himself.

[Ms. Toad]

27. COVID doesn't care whether you are a loose cannon or not.

It cares whether you are exposed to COVID in sufficient quantity to become infectected. Testing is not sufficient to prevent COVID - loose cannon or not. It requires mask wearing, a good ventilation system, etc.

Biden and Harris should be leading by example - the same criticism I had of Trump, albeit to a lesser degree. I have seen both too many times in indoor spaces not wearing masks. I will be very surprised if it turns out Biden was wearing a mask on AF1.

[tblue37]

5. It says the staff member tested negative before boarding the plane.

[Hortensis]

15. Right. :)

[Mr.Bill]

18. Thanks n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I know he's vaxxed and boosted, but I hope they were wearing masks

on the plane.

[Cha]

8. Yeah that sounds like an excellent

hope!

[Cha]

7. Stay Negative Mr President!

[Ms. Toad]

9. Silent as to whether he was wearing a mask.

My guess is not.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Omicron is a different beast

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This is the most contagious thing scientists have ever encountered.

I just tested positive today. I got my booster about 6 weeks ago. I had Covid last year too. I wear a mask, and mostly just stay home. Best as I can tell I got it from somebody at the grocery store. Omicron is a game changer.

And so far it’s no fun. Worse than whatever version I had in the Fall of 2020. But reports are chances of severe Covid are very low for vaccinated people.

[iemanja]

17. Sorry to hear that

I hope your symptoms are mild.

[drray23]

19. Good luck. I tested positive yesterday...

I too am fully vaccinated and boosted. So far my wife has tested negative. I’m camping out in one end of the house, she on the other end. Mild symptoms but it’s a drag having to isolate 10 days..

[Ms. Toad]

26. I'm camping out in the living room (15-ceilings).

My spouse and daughter pass through but don't hang out there.

[Hortensis]

20. Sorry to hear it, Johnny2X. Very low and thank goodness

since the CDC says breakthrough infections are "likely to occur." Sigh.

[Ms. Toad]

25. So far I'm negative (twice) . . .

but I've got some kind of creepy crud since yesterday morning that feels slightly different from a cold - especially since my temperature just hit 100 (not normal with a cold).

So a November cancer diagnosis (including surgery on 12/14 and 12/29) and COVID stole Christmas last year - and COVID appears poised to steal it this year.

I'll do another antigen test tomorrow, along with a PCR test. But my parents have already just decided to drive up, hand off food and presents on the doorstep on Thursday rather than risk it.

Here's my risk: Shopping in Costco Thursday, masked, for about 2 hours (about half of the shoppers were masked). I had my mask off for about 2 minutes in the cafe area (long enough to snarf a hot dog), and for about 10 minutes on Friday in a 2-story space at least 10' from anyone else similary unmasked on Friday. At the Friday event I did sit (with my mask on) within 5' of someone who was unmasked for 15-20 minutes, who learned halfway through the event on Friday, that she was exposed earlier in the week. (She was heading off to find a COVID test, but probably didn't find one until today.) The 1st year students at my school also decided to share COVID during finals (last day 12/11) by studying togehter in the cafeteria area unmasked (the only space where masks are allowed to be removed). But that's likely too long ago.

That's it since Thanksgiving (all vaccinated, all boosted, at the Thanksgiving events - vaccination was the ticket for admission).

[FloridaBlues]

14. Doctors will keep a very close eye on our President.