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| Democratic National Convention surprise guest turns out to be COVID-19 as multiple attendees test positive |
| 2024-08-26 |
| [NY Post] Karma is a bitch Karmala? Maybe there was a surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention after all. Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country. "When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC and come home with COVID-19. Womp womp," Christopher Wiggins, a reporter at The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine, posted on X. Several others also shared their diagnosis on social media. See Monkeypox "Indeed. I arrived at the DNC healthy and hopeful and left very sick and disillusioned," human rights lawyer Yasmine Taeb wrote on X. "Oh man! I brought home so much sweet swag from the DNC! Coffee mugs, stickers, t-shirts, poster, buttons, bags, pins, and....COVID! SWEET!" "On Democracy Pod" host Fred Wellman exclaimed. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #9 Or its a bullshit election campaign ploy to condition the stage for a record number of mail-in ballots. Now, Crissy Wiggins could be using it as cover for Monkey Pox. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-08-26 15:51 |
| #8 Still better than Beyoncé.. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2024-08-26 14:16 |
| #7 More likely they got it from the airplane flights to and from Chicago. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-08-26 11:40 |
| #6 ^ or even make it to the polls. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-08-26 10:47 |
| #5 Separately, reportedly this month’s version of Covid is short but nasty. I wonder how many of this year’s DNC participants will risk returning in the future? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-08-26 10:37 |
| #4 About monkeypox: although the infection is ugly and distressing (not to mention revealing about behaviours that in too much of the world are safer left unannounced), would it — like Dr. Edward Jenner discovered about milkmaids and cowpox — confer immunity to the much nastier smallpox? Interestingly, according to the FDA they approved a joint smallpox/monkeypox vaccine in 2019 — for at-risk adults only — in response to the first reported monkeypox outbreak in the US, which occurred in 2003 and was the first reported outbreak outside of Africa. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-08-26 10:20 |
| #3 ^Longer asymptomatic incubation period. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 06:53 |
| #2 I woulda thot monkey pox. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2024-08-26 06:14 |
| #1 Too bad it only harms humans. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 05:26 |