Reinforcing the longstanding media narrative that Sen. Kamala Harris of California has not been taking the pandemic seriously by engaging in nonessential travel across state lines, her communications director has contracted the deadly coronavirus.
Of course, there is no such “longstanding media narrative” because Harris is a Democrat, and they’re presumed to be the ones who know everything about how to protect themselves and others from infection. And yet the Biden campaign confirmed Thursday that Liz Allen, Harris’s communications director, and a non-staff flight crew member tested positive for the virus.
The campaign claims that Harris wasn’t in close contact with either person (why wouldn’t the person tasked with managing Harris’s messaging ever be in close contact with her?) so she won’t quarantine, but she has canceled in-person events until Monday.
Harris, putting herself and others at risk by flouting the clear Centers for Disease Contol and Prevention guideline that says, “Staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others from COVID-19,” was supposed to fly to North Carolina on Thursday.
Prayers up for Liz Allen and the flight crew member, and hopefully Harris remains healthy. But I want to know whether her Democratic colleagues and liberals in the media are ready to blame her for the spread that we’re so desperately trying to stop.
It was perfectly acceptable to do that when President Trump, a few White House staffers, and Senate Republicans got it. They, we were told, were literally inviting the virus to infect themselves.
The truth is that people get the virus. They can wear masks, they can stand six feet apart, and they can wash their hands until they bleed. People still get the virus.
Republicans get it. Democrats get it. It happens.
