"6 campaign staffers setting up for President Trump’s Tulsa rally test positive for COVID-19"

[Oompa Loompa]

6 campaign staffers setting up for President Trump’s Tulsa rally test positive for COVID-19

President Donald Trump's campaign says six staff members helping set up for his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have tested positive for coronavirus.

The campaign's communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement that “quarantine procedures” were immediately initiated and no staff member who tested positive would attend the event. He said no one who had immediate contact with those staffers would attend, either...

 

[Brightmoon]

But but but according to trump , it’s a hoax !

 

[Hammster]

But but but according to trump , it’s a hoax !

Really?

 

[Brightmoon]

Yes, really .trump said it was a hoax for a long time until the death rate climbed into the 10,000s .

 

[Hammster]

Yes, really .trump said it was a hoax for a long time until the death rate climbed into the 10,000s .

He said that about his staffers? You’ll need to quote sources.

 

[Brightmoon]

He said that repeatedly about the pandemic. I feel sorry for his staffers since they’re being encouraged not to wear masks and this is very contagious

 

[Hammster]

He said that repeatedly about the pandemic. I feel sorry for his staffers since they’re being encouraged not to wear masks and this is very contagious

Are we talking about the pandemic or the rally?

 

[Yttrium]

Yes, really .trump said it was a hoax for a long time until the death rate climbed into the 10,000s .

Trump referred to it as the Democrats' new hoax. He wasn't referring to the virus itself as a hoax, just the Democrats' portrayal of it.

Trump calls coronavirus Democrats' 'new hoax'

I don't want to sound like I'm defending Trump here, though, since he was still heavily downplaying the virus, and comparing it to the flu.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

6 campaign staffers setting up for President Trump’s Tulsa rally test positive for COVID-19

Nobody in there right frame of mind, would be around Trump or Pence. Since Trump isn't taking COVID-19 serious. I feel sorry about people being forced to work into this nightmare.