Mike Pence says holding rallies amid a deadly pandemic is just freedom of speech, baby!
assembled for its first press briefing in two months. Predictably,, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided a litany of grave but generally useful information.“What we’re dealing with right now is community spread in the context of a substantial proportion of the people that are getting infected do not know they’re infected, they’re not symptomatic, they’re asymptomatic individuals,” Fauci said.
He added that “A risk for you is not just isolated to you” and that “The only way we’re going to end it is by ending it together.”’s contribution was a mealy-mouthed medley of steady optimismmisleading claims and flat out denials about the extent to which federal and local officials have dropped the ball on managing covid-19's spread.
It was bad enough that Pence continued to insist that the increasing number in confirmed covid-19 cases is a direct correlation with an increase in testing—with spinning anything and everything about covid-19 into a positive. His denial that there is a connection between states likes Florida and Texas re-opening too soon and rising covid-19 cases, however, was a
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