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Reporter Who Had Been in Close Proximity to Trump One Day Before Tests Positive for COVID

Sometimes it feels inevitable, and even shocking that it hasn’t happened yet. Trump’s recklessness regarding what he calls “the China virus” and what society calls the coronavirus and COVID, is the type of behavior that would lead one to expect to be both exposed and infected with the virus. It feels like it is just a matter of time. Especially now.

There are now reports that an unidentified reporter who had been with Trump on his trip to Tampa Florida, including close proximity to Trump, and travel on Air Force One, has tested positive for COVID one day after the trip, sending the White House scurrying.

From Rawstory:

Zeke Miller of the Associated Press told the White House Correspondents Association about the unidentified reporter’s diagnosis in a letter.

“We’ve already reached out to those who were in the pools with this individual, and the White House Medical Unit is conducting additional contact tracing and providing follow-on tests for those in the pools and potentially exposed,” Miller’s message read.

Trump wasn’t the only one put in danger:

The reporter tested positive one day after standing in close proximity to other members of the media at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair. Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, State Sen. Wilton Simpson, Pinellas County Commissioner Kathleen Peters and State Rep. Danny Perez were also present in the room.

Fortunately for Trump, unlike many Trump supporters, most people in the media, especially pool reporters who have to be around so many people, are good about wearing masks and likely wouldn’t have spread it to Trump. If we could only get that kind of uniformity in mask-wearing from the Trump supporters, we might all feel a little more comfortable.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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