If you tuned into today’s White House press briefing, you were greeted by a site you hadn’t seen in a while:
Masks are back in the briefing room pic.twitter.com/mlLHP0113W
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) July 29, 2021
Well, they’re mostly back. There are exceptions, of course.
One of those exceptions is apparently Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre:
"Masks are back in the briefing room." https://t.co/BT56HOiZeN pic.twitter.com/pVRU4R2nLe
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) July 29, 2021
Why isn’t @PressSec wearing a mask?
— Irwin R. Schyster (@I_R_Schyster) July 29, 2021
Why isn't the Press Secretary wearing one? Is she vaccinated and you are not?
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) July 29, 2021
The Press Secretary is not wearing a mask, leading to the conclusion that she is the only one vaccinated in the room. https://t.co/BT56HOiZeN
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) July 29, 2021
What other conclusion can we draw?
Why aren't you vaccinated? https://t.co/A1iRuaIbcr
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 29, 2021
If we were a journalist masking up in there, we’d be pretty annoyed that Karine Jean-Pierre is just standing up there without a mask when the CDC says we should all be masking indoors regardless of vaccination status. If they’re unvaccinated, Jean-Pierre could literally kill them with her COVID19 viral load.
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Not one of the WH briefing reporters is going to ask her why they have to wear masks but she doesn't.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 29, 2021
What is she going to say? "I'm vaccinated"
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 29, 2021
Lock her up! pic.twitter.com/uHhPFxDLP3
— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) July 29, 2021
Where’s Nancy Pelosi when you need her?
we are back to public officials wearing masks when they walk up at pressers (when there's basically no chance of them spreading or catching covid), taking the mask off to talk (the time they can spread/catch it), then putting it back on & walking off when it doesn't matter again.
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 29, 2021
i'm most excited for the return of pressers with multiple speakers where everyone wears a mask, takes it off to talk, puts it on the podium, talks maskless, picks it up off the podium, puts it on, next person walks up, puts the mask down where another person's mask just was, etc.
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 29, 2021
Save some of that excitement for watching media firefighters continue failing to do their jobs.
The WH Press Secretary just gave an entire briefing unmasked to a room full of masked journalists and not one of them thought to ask why she wasn't wearing one. Pure crazy pills.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 29, 2021
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Update:
Karine Jean-Pierre’s lie-filled explanation for why we should trust Joe Biden and the CDC also contains a non-answer that ‘should alarm everyone’ https://t.co/b99lf7qjew
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 29, 2021