Trump meets with Florida sheriffs who had attended conference with COVID-positive colleague

[riversedge]

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Source: USAToday--Fort Myers News-Press


Updated 12:17pm ET August 1, 2020

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Florida sheriffs who had attended a conference this week with a COVID-19-infected colleague met Friday afternoon with President Donald Trump.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood reported his positive test just hours before more than a dozen other sheriffs stood with Trump on the Tampa International Airport tarmac.

Chitwood had attended the Florida Sheriff's Association conference earlier this week in Bonita Springs. Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and law enforcement officers from around the state were also at the conference.

On Friday night, the Florida Department of Corrections reported that Secretary Mark Inch, who attended the conference, and Deputy Secretary Ricky Dixon had tested positive..........

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/07/31/coronavirus-trump-meets-with-sheriffs-infected-colleague/5560860002/

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Rapid testing was done (for some) at this #trumprally, --a political event, which was what it was (meaning tax dollars spent) .
Yet, regular folks wait days for their results. Unfair hardly cuts it.

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[Baitball Blogger]

1. Huge risks. Huge risks.

[Chemisse]

2. It looks like they were pretty distant and outside with fresh air as well.

I don't think this one will do it. The closer indoor contacts in the White House are a lot more risky.

[riversedge]

3. yes, I agree, but more recent reseach has said that the #coronavirus is aeresol--and given that

it is Florida--it is a monster and is everywhere. #wearadamnMask and protect yourself and your loved ones--and others around you.

[klook]

10. You say "risky."

I say “promising.”

Thoughts and prayers for Dear Leader and his inner circle.

[forgotmylogin]

12. I agree. If moderate groups are a must, meeting outside at distance with masks is safest.

The riskier situation is an enclosed indoor space with less circulation where someone carrying virus is inside for a period of time exhaling without a mask. Wearing a mask indoors keeps asymptomatic carriers from releasing as much virus into the air that will remain airborne and be potentially inhaled by someone else. Your mask may protect from stray virus but not as well as it will keep that of an unwittingly-infected person's viral load from escaping into the air.

[Roy Rolling]

4. Made me laugh

It looks like a TV commercial for Trump brand adult diapers.

[Roy Rolling]

5. Emoluments

[Orrex]

6. Maybe he'll die. That would be the best thing ever.

I was hoping for something spectacular, like having Trump taken out by a meteor strike, or by falling into a volcano, or by getting eaten by an escaped genetically engineered super-reptile, but nice fatal dose of southern-fried COVID would do very nicely.

[FM123]

7. Or get struck down by lightning during one of his talks in the Rose Garden. Live on TV.

[Orrex]

8. Yes! Or as he's winding up for a swing on one of his countless golf vacations

So many possibilities.

It would also be good to see him crushed by a huge block of frozen piss falling from a jet passing far overhead.

[FM123]

9. Of course! On the golf course!

[ChazInAz]

16. My fantasy:

Involves rabid squirrels on the Mar A Lago golf course.

[kaotikross]

11. I had to make this after seeing the photo

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[hoss53]

13. tRump vaccine

tRump has been a virus to our country for his entire adult life. Our vaccine to this particular virus is simple. VOTE

[BumRushDaShow]

14. When I saw the name "Mike Chitwood" I was like, is that the guy from here in the Philly burbs?

And surprisingly enough, I was thinking of this guy, who is the father of that Florida Sheriff.

(Mike Chitwood, Sr. - https://www.delcotimes.com/mike-chitwood-talks-about-55-years-in-law-enforcement/article_6e9001ec-088d-11ea-98fc-03148d582f5c.html)



(Mike Chitwood, Jr. (who was actually born in Philly) - https://www.volusiasheriff.org/about/sheriff.stml)

[TNNurse]

15. Not a mask in sight.

[Javaman]

17. I got the feeling a months ago that the..

Orange asshole is asymptotic and a super spreader.

That would fit right within his psychotic methodology

[Illumination]

18. The "gift" that just keeps on giving...especially to those who are maskless & don't believe!

[lettucebe]

19. You'd think the US President's need for protection would require ANYONE meeting him to be masked

Wouldn't that just make sense? Even if the president himself refuses to wear a mask, I'd still think anyone near him in any setting should be required to wear a mask to protect the president. Why is this not a thing?

[thecrow]

20. To be sure... They were tested before they "met" him

and he probably gets convalescent plasma at breakfast.
Everything is staged with him.

[AC_Mem]

22. Testing

We have an urgent care right down the street that is offering the 10 minute test. I had to pay the $30.00 copay, but it was a quick blood test (same as taking a blood sugar test) and I had my answer in 15 minutes. It is available, you just have to find out where and be willing to pay for it.

Annette/Orlando (thankfully I was negative)

[applegrove]

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