It seems White House holiday parties aren’t good for your health. Who would have known?

WaPo this morning carried an article in which the Massachusetts GOP leader expressed regret for attending one of the White House Hannukah parties. It seems he caught Covid and was hospitalized twice; the second time, he came very close to being put on a ventilator. And his wife, son, daughter in-law and mother in-law all later tested positive, although there’s no mention of the severity of their bouts with Covid, if any.

Even worse, Trump didn’t even bother to show up for the party, although he did for the second Hannukah party that day, where he made a brief appearance to state – get ready for this – that the election was riddled with fraud.

And do you remember that State Dept. announcement of a big 900-person holiday party? Well, only about 70 people responded they would come, and even fewer came. And I regret to say that Big Mike himself didn’t attend. His reason? The article says “The State Department did not respond to questions about why Pompeo canceled the speech and whether it was due to his own health concerns about holding a large indoor event.”

That sums up this administration’s approach to the pandemic: 1) Deny it exists; 2) Do their best to make things worse; and 3) Never once apologize for getting anything wrong. And BTW the death toll through yesterday was 343,000. No connection with the above, I’m sure.

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