We’re told by the media that it’s a platinum act of courage and a true example of adherence to science if you do everything that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells you to do to limit the spread of the coronavirus. But if that’s the case, why are even liberals, the ones who supposedly have a lock on this stuff, becoming infected?
There are more than 7 million confirmed cases of infection in the United States, and you can’t tell me that not a single one of them always did their best to wear a mask and stay the advised 6 feet apart from people outside their homes. There’s no doubt that plenty of them did.
But after President Trump announced early Friday that both he and his wife had tested positive, Democrats and liberals in the media are putting on all the airs of wise men who, if only he had listened to them, this would have never happened.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said Friday on MSNBC that Trump’s behavior was “something that, again, with going into crowds, unmasked and all the rest, was sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen.”
Now would be a good time for CNN or MSNBC to put up one of those cheeky graphics on screen to say something like, “Pelosi claims without evidence that Trump invited coronavirus infection.”
There’s no way to know for sure when Trump got infected or how. We do know, however, that cases have been confirmed in the very people who declare with sanctimonious authority that they’re doing everything to keep themselves safe.
Out of the 10 states with the highest number of cases, half of them are run by Democratic governors who have put the severest restrictions in place out of anywhere in the U.S. (At the top of the list is California, where limited indoor dining at restaurants was allowed just this week.)
Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, contracted the coronavirus.
Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam tested positive just last week.
Several House Democrats have also received confirmed positive test results, including Reps. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Nydia Velazquez of New York, and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.
Does Pelosi want to comment on their behavior — perhaps their “brazen invitation for something like this to happen” because they didn’t lock themselves in a dark room waiting for a vaccine?
We didn’t get this climbing total of 7 million-plus confirmed cases because all of those people committed sin. It’s because viruses spread, even when you take precautions against them.
