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demmiblue

(36,841 posts)
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:34 AM Oct 2020

McEnany tests positive for COVID-19

Source: The Hill

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for COVID-19, she said Monday, making her the latest person in President Trump's orbit to contract the virus.

“After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday, I tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning while experiencing no symptoms. No reporters, producers or members of the press are listed as close contacts by the White House Medical Unit,” she said in a statement.

“As an essential worker, I have worked diligently to provide needed information to the American people at this time,” she continued. “With my recent positive test, I will begin the quarantine process and will continue working on behalf of the American people remotely.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/519632-mcenany-tests-positive-for-covid-19





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McEnany tests positive for COVID-19 (Original Post) demmiblue Oct 2020 OP
"Thoughts and prayers" left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 #1
May I join you? lunatica Oct 2020 #65
I need to keep my thought in my thought bubble Botany Oct 2020 #2
Liars Miguelito Loveless Oct 2020 #3
Yeah, right? Since when is pathological lying an "essential" occupation? AZ8theist Oct 2020 #56
Just about every time I have seen her lately, she's babylonsister Oct 2020 #4
I don't think anyone could have predicted this! Javaman Oct 2020 #5
Pence & Barr were @ the Judge Coney Island Super Spreader Swaray too. Botany Oct 2020 #8
Perhaps the "soire'e" Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #17
LOL that is how I spelled soiree Botany Oct 2020 #21
Ms McEnany, YOU ARE NOT AN ESSENTIAL WORKER, as a matter of fact you are just like Escurumbele Oct 2020 #6
+1000 on her not being an essential worker! What a POS to even claim that. nt iluvtennis Oct 2020 #15
Put a big plastic tent over the WH and fumigate it with bleach, for a month Baclava Oct 2020 #7
+ agree. nt iluvtennis Oct 2020 #18
Find a blonde mannequin and a tape recorder to recite the imbecilic talking points Yeehah Oct 2020 #9
This. durablend Oct 2020 #13
I know where they can find a mannequin that looks just like her-the ad says "gently used". Midnight Writer Oct 2020 #63
I am beginning to think that we are dealing with something very contagious still_one Oct 2020 #10
Couldn't happen to a more deserving winger bitch! LOL machoneman Oct 2020 #11
Yaayyy, MAGAninny! Now you can brag about your personal experience... lagomorph777 Oct 2020 #12
McEnemy of the People. It's her & her boss, not the press. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #19
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. Ha ha. Ha. Karma13612 Oct 2020 #14
It is what it is, Puddin' n/t sarge43 Oct 2020 #16
Uh oh geomon666 Oct 2020 #20
You are so NOT an essential worker! skypilot Oct 2020 #22
If you can be replaced by a memo with no loss of effectiveness... Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2020 #39
And she's been recklessly spreading it, going maskless. ananda Oct 2020 #23
She has a daughter who is less than a year old. hamsterjill Oct 2020 #47
Thinking the same. Miigwech Oct 2020 #53
very few people are more deserving samsingh Oct 2020 #24
How convenient this is for her.....she gets to avoid questions about the fiasco over the weekend. Chakaconcarne Oct 2020 #25
This makes me worry. Sucha NastyWoman Oct 2020 #26
Anthing is possible but... skypilot Oct 2020 #30
You don't need to go around without masks all the time to get infected. LisaL Oct 2020 #36
I said anything is possible. skypilot Oct 2020 #40
Less likely for Biden to be positive wnylib Oct 2020 #69
Yes. LisaL Oct 2020 #37
Then this tells me.... FarPoint Oct 2020 #27
Post removed Post removed Oct 2020 #28
Where's Rudy? hamsterjill Oct 2020 #29
He just told Politico there was no reason to delay a second debate nitpicker Oct 2020 #33
Oh no! You were the 3rd person to say his name BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #45
LOL hamsterjill Oct 2020 #48
Well at least Barr finally reluctantly claimed that he was going to "self quarantine" BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #54
Does anyone still wonder why we lead the world in cases and in deaths? world wide wally Oct 2020 #31
the karma is beginning llashram Oct 2020 #32
So compulsively parroting lies for the shitgibbon does not convey antibodies. ResistantAmerican17 Oct 2020 #34
Thoughts and hey, it's garbage day. rickford66 Oct 2020 #35
She'll be fine, probably. BlueStater Oct 2020 #38
The virus decides Larissa Oct 2020 #41
That is the latest GOP talking point when pushed BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #46
Don't say the quiet stuff out loud folks. Schadenfreude is never a good look. SKKY Oct 2020 #42
more accurate headline: "Coronavirus tests positive for MAGA-ninny" lastlib Oct 2020 #43
It turns out their strategy of staying positive is working incredibly well Major Nikon Oct 2020 #44
The White House is the hive gab13by13 Oct 2020 #49
Per Forrest Gump bronxiteforever Oct 2020 #50
So that makes how many infected in that Orbit of Untruth speakers now - 13? onetexan Oct 2020 #51
Say, Kayleigh hermetic Oct 2020 #52
Wow, I just found out she had breast cancer. BlueStater Oct 2020 #55
Considering she has the same ACTUAL job that Hope Hicks does, it's no surprise sandensea Oct 2020 #57
"We will not see diseases like the Coronavirus come here." Make7 Oct 2020 #58
Is Bill Barr next? nt SunSeeker Oct 2020 #59
Barr and McConnell. Once they both wnylib Oct 2020 #70
And I will forever believe there is a God. nt SunSeeker Oct 2020 #71
...and negative for brain activity NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #60
May humility emerge where there is none /nt bucolic_frolic Oct 2020 #61
Thank you. mahina Oct 2020 #62
No, really? I'm shocked, shocked than in the middle of the Black Plague a rat's flea bit you Hekate Oct 2020 #64
Is "Lying Barbie" now "Covid Barbie"? OverBurn Oct 2020 #66
"As an essential worker, ...", I have only 1 thing to say about that ... aggiesal Oct 2020 #67
While neither I nor SNL are God, given that KAC and now KM have this... moriah Oct 2020 #68
It is what it is. roamer65 Oct 2020 #72

Botany

(70,498 posts)
2. I need to keep my thought in my thought bubble
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:36 AM
Oct 2020


In 2013 she said this about President Obama, "He is still in that hut in Kenya."


Botany

(70,498 posts)
8. Pence & Barr were @ the Judge Coney Island Super Spreader Swaray too.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:41 AM
Oct 2020

Any other GOP senators @ that shindig?

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,999 posts)
17. Perhaps the "soire'e"
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:45 AM
Oct 2020

Out of an abundance of caution, DU doesn't allow accented characters in Reply titles.


soirée


Botany

(70,498 posts)
21. LOL that is how I spelled soiree
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:50 AM
Oct 2020

How stupid people spell soiree.
You are not invited to the soiree because you are a moron for spelling it swaray.

from urban dictionary

Escurumbele

(3,389 posts)
6. Ms McEnany, YOU ARE NOT AN ESSENTIAL WORKER, as a matter of fact you are just like
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:40 AM
Oct 2020

the other liars who occupied that same spot, any person with no principles can do what you do, you are not essential, and yes you have worked diligently to lie and misinform, so please, take your quarantine and meditate about your role in this administration, how much hate you have allowed to come from your mouth by repeating the lies of the man you work for.

Meditate hard about what you have become, a tool for a corrupt administration, and a sad case. Think about the work you put throughout your life to become a lawyer to now be reduced to a simple lying tool, please understand the shame of it all and hopefully you will come out of this a better person. I wish you well, physically and spiritually. Life and the universe understand very well you need spiritual cleansing.

Yeehah

(4,585 posts)
9. Find a blonde mannequin and a tape recorder to recite the imbecilic talking points
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:42 AM
Oct 2020

and nobody will notice she's gone.

Karma13612

(4,552 posts)
14. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. Ha ha. Ha.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:44 AM
Oct 2020

I don’t normally celebrate another’s ill fate, but she is just plain bad.
Lies have consequences.
Bad choices have consequences.

Will be interesting to see what Karma thinks about all this.


hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
47. She has a daughter who is less than a year old.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:44 PM
Oct 2020

Between ACB and KMcN, they sure are putting a lot of children at risk.

ACB had her children at the super spreader event last Saturday.

Kellyanne Conway’s daughter tweeted that she (the daughter) is positive.

I want the children to be healthy. This is ridiculous neglect on the part of the parents.

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,748 posts)
26. This makes me worry.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:55 AM
Oct 2020

If she can take this long to finally test positive, is there a chance Biden and his entourage still might get a positive result?

skypilot

(8,853 posts)
30. Anthing is possible but...
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:04 PM
Oct 2020

...Biden and his entourage don't go around without masks all the time, so there's that.

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
36. You don't need to go around without masks all the time to get infected.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:13 PM
Oct 2020

Biden didn't have a mask on during a debate.

skypilot

(8,853 posts)
40. I said anything is possible.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:16 PM
Oct 2020

For the most part Biden is doing what most responsible folks are doing and wearing his mask.

wnylib

(21,433 posts)
69. Less likely for Biden to be positive
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 02:37 PM
Oct 2020

Compared to Trump's inner circl.e who have multiple close up exposures with each other, always without protection. It's possible that Biden was exposed at the debate, but they were 12 feet apart in a large room.

Regarding Biden, I worry more about exposure through other people, e.g. Dem Senators on committees with Republicans. Kamala Harris, for example, is on the Senate Judiciary Committee where two R members are positive after the WH superspreader event. I am hoping she is staying away.

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
37. Yes.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:14 PM
Oct 2020

Those exposed are recommended to wait 5-7 days to even take the covid test, because covid might not show up on the test before. It hasn't yet been seven days since the debate.
And the incubation period for covid is up to 14 days.

FarPoint

(12,344 posts)
27. Then this tells me....
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:56 AM
Oct 2020

Maybe Biden is not yet " clear" with covid-19 negative results...If he was infected by the Trumpsters on Tuesdays Debate set...then, I want negatives up thru Friday...

Response to demmiblue (Original post)

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
29. Where's Rudy?
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:02 PM
Oct 2020

I’ve not seen nor heard anything from or about him since Trump was found to be positive. Have I missed something?

BumRushDaShow

(128,874 posts)
45. Oh no! You were the 3rd person to say his name
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:41 PM
Oct 2020

and nitpicker captured the moment!!



Now he is out and about.

BumRushDaShow

(128,874 posts)
54. Well at least Barr finally reluctantly claimed that he was going to "self quarantine"
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 01:06 PM
Oct 2020

The Ghoul on the other hand, well, looks like he plans to run amuck.

(his girlfriend better look out but it may be too late!)

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
38. She'll be fine, probably.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:14 PM
Oct 2020

She‘s only 32, so her survival chances are pretty good.

Of course, had she just worn a piece of cloth over her fucking face and kept her distance a bit, she could have avoided that small chance of death entirely. Hope it was worth it.

Larissa

(790 posts)
41. The virus decides
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:16 PM
Oct 2020

Do the folks in the White House not realize that testing doesn't prevent infection?

In May of this year, Dr. Fauci made an observation about Covid-19. The ongoing firestorm of contagion in the White House brought it to mind:

"The novel coronavirus has a *phenomenal* ability to spread like wildfire. One thing this virus has that's really different from so many other viruses . . . its ability and efficiency in spreading from person to person. This is a virus that spreads as easily as any virus that I've ever known apart from, maybe, measles."

BumRushDaShow

(128,874 posts)
46. That is the latest GOP talking point when pushed
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:44 PM
Oct 2020

They belive that they can "test themselves out of the virus".

I.e., if they test "negative", then they are free and clear to continue to offer themselves up as viral hosts by not doing a damn thing to mitigate it.

SKKY

(11,804 posts)
42. Don't say the quiet stuff out loud folks. Schadenfreude is never a good look.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:17 PM
Oct 2020

I know. I get it. But let's take the high road here.

lastlib

(23,216 posts)
43. more accurate headline: "Coronavirus tests positive for MAGA-ninny"
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:33 PM
Oct 2020

That poor virus--it's catching all kinds of republikans. It just MIGHT be dead by November.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
55. Wow, I just found out she had breast cancer.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 01:08 PM
Oct 2020

And she STILL chose not to take this seriously? What the fuck is wrong with these people?

sandensea

(21,624 posts)
57. Considering she has the same ACTUAL job that Hope Hicks does, it's no surprise
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 01:15 PM
Oct 2020

i.e. that of giving presidential lip service.

Make7

(8,543 posts)
58. "We will not see diseases like the Coronavirus come here."
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 01:20 PM
Oct 2020

"This President will always put America first. He will always protect American citizens. We will not see diseases like the Coronavirus come here."

wnylib

(21,433 posts)
70. Barr and McConnell. Once they both
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 02:59 PM
Oct 2020

have it, I will feel a sense of contentment, rightly or wrongly.

moriah

(8,311 posts)
68. While neither I nor SNL are God, given that KAC and now KM have this...
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 02:28 PM
Oct 2020

.... this SNL clip might be appropriate.



Wishing both ladies nothing worse than the worst flu of their lives, and that they learn some empathy and compassion.
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