Isn’t it funny how the press takes every opportunity to knock Republicans over COVID-19 even if they have to make it up, but when they have an incident when a Democrat has a super spreader event with no masks and a spike in the number of cases occur, they suddenly become mute?
Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign for sexually harassing women when his policy of sending COVID patients to nursing homes actually killed people, even if the number of deaths is in dispute.
Barack Obama held his 60th birthday party in the exclusive Martha’s Vineyard community. Just after it ended, there was a sudden spike in the number of COVID cases. But, you will not hear a word of it from the lapdog press. People roamed the party without masks or any social distancing.
Annie Karni, a White House correspondent for the NYT appeared on CNN and said there was no risk of CONID infections because the crowd was sophisticated and vaccinated.
This continues the long streak the Times has of being wrong on every subject.
It is a streak that began when they claimed that Noah was a conspiracy theorist and that his boat would never have to be used and continued when the Enron financial advisor, Paul Krugman, urged his readers to invest all of their money in betting on Hillary in 2016.
Sixty-three people were diagnosed with COVID in one week, the highest number since April. Hundreds of people attended the former President’s 60th birthday party at the Obama mansion in Martha’s Vineyard.
But it’s okay to do that as long as your invitees have been vaccinated and are sophisticated, otherwise more people would be getting the disease.
Photos of the party showed many of the guests without masks, mingling, drinking, and dancing in close quarters.
The Tisbury boards of health spokesperson Maura Valley told the Daily Mail it was “a little too early” to know whether the boost in cases was a direct result of Obama’s birthday party, but cases continue to rise following the event.
Prior to the party, Obama and his staff tried to claim the event would be “scaled back” with just close family and friends as a result of the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, but it was still a big party, with 300-400 people attending.
The Daily Mail also reported that six staffers tested positive at the Harbor view Hotel, where some of the celebrities attending the party stayed.
