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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPPE factory nixes 45 visit due to concern for worker, product safety
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-visit-to-pennsylvania-factory-that-produces-ppe-materials-was-scuttled-after-plant-officials-expressed-concerns-about-health-risks/2020/05/11/10aa97ec-917a-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html#click=https://t.co/2MgNOT6F0j"President Trump was pushing to get out in the public eye in recent weeks and tout his leadership during the pandemic, and White House staff thought they had hit on the ideal event: a presidential visit to thank the Pennsylvania factory workers who had recently taken herculean steps to ramp up U.S. supplies of protective equipment.
Workers had received national attention after dozens of them lived for 28 days inside their factory so they could ensure they were virus-free and their production was not contaminated or disrupted by illness.
White House officials pressed to hold an event at the Braskem factory, initially scheduled for last Friday. But after extensive back and forth, factory officials ultimately asked to postpone, worried that a visit from Trump could jeopardize both the safety of the workers and the plants ability to produce special material for masks and other medical gear, according to two people familiar with the decision and documents reviewed by The Post.
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Trump has refused to wear a mask in public, and Pence has only occasionally done so. On Thursday, the vice presidents face was uncovered as he delivered boxes of gloves and masks to a rehabilitation center and nursing home in Alexandria and spoke within a few feet of the centers staff. Pence was accompanied by his press secretary, Katie Miller, who also did not have a mask.
The following day, the news broke that she had tested positive for the coronavirus."...(more)
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(13,175 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)crickets
(25,988 posts)There's absolutely no reason at all to allow trump and his entourage to contaminate a factory that has worked so hard to keep its workers healthy and to keep its facility clean.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Cha
(297,877 posts)the Nasty Assface.
Ha.. this is almost too good to be true.. the PPE factory doesn't want the trumpvirus to visit.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Cha
(297,877 posts)made it necessary to add nasty to Assface, that I've been calling him for awhile, due to his.. well.. the way he looks when he talks. Booom.
You're Welcome..
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)They knew there was no way Lysol Von Syphilis was going to wear a PPE mask during that photo op.
Warpy
(111,404 posts)when he was standing over a wheelbarrow full of partially completed masks, blabbering and fingering the blanks.
They probably had to discard the whole load.
soldierant
(6,940 posts)by his Press Secretary, Katie Miller"
WHERE WAS MOTHER?
iluvtennis
(19,888 posts)ffr
(22,675 posts)We need to make amends to our government and we need a supermajority this Fall to make it so.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Thats what happened.
By the way the boxes pence pretended to deliver were empty ( saw it on Rachel)
Skittles
(153,243 posts)treat him like someone who flaunts the rules
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,665 posts)He was told the boxes were empty but he wanted the photo op.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017581196
muriel_volestrangler
(101,399 posts)But what makes this extra special amazing is that President Shit-For-Brains, desperate to Leni Riefenstahl his ass out of this mess, cant even do that because of his own idiotic bravado of refusing to wear a mask. The last god damned thing any company that has quarantined their staff for months to safely produce sterile equipment will do is allow this dipshit and his team of choads to flounce off Pox Force One, refuse to wear masks and gloves, and then drool all over everything in sight.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/05/11/todays-laugh-cry/