Pence Criticized For Showing Up At Alexandria Nursing Home Without A Mask

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I'm looking at the big "STOP" poster taped to the front door. What do you suppose it says?

Woodbine is pretty close to me. Some of my relatives have spent time at Woodbine.

I was working at home. I didn't hear anything about this while it was happening.

MAY 8, 2:45 PM

Vice President Pence Criticized For Showing Up To Alexandria Nursing Home Without A Mask

Victoria Chamberlin



Vice President Mike Pence unloads boxes of PPE from FEMA at Woodbine Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, May 7, 2020.

Susan Walsh / AP Photo

Vice President Mike Pence has been the butt of endless Twitter jabs and some scathing late-night show commentary after he showed up to an Alexandria nursing home on Thursday for a photo-op without a mask.

Pence was delivering boxes of personal protective equipment to the Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, one of many deliveries the Federal Emergency Management Agency will send out to nursing homes across the country. Pence was not social distancing from his companions on the trip, and no one in the group was wearing a mask.

The photo-op took place on the same day that a personal valet of President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus. On Friday, news broke that Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, is positive for COVID-19.

This is the second time in about a week that the vice president has taken heat for not wearing a mask during a public outing. In a visit to the Mayo Clinic last week, Pence flouted hospital rules by choosing not to wear a mask, which he later said was a “mistake.”

The Virginia Democrats put their criticism of the nursing home visit succinctly:

So Mike Pence shows up to a Virginia nursing home
1. without a mask
2. while not social distancing
3. after a Trump valet tests positive for coronavirus
4. for an unnecesssary photo-up.

Link to tweet

{snip}

As Pence and nursing home staff wheeled the last boxes to the door, a few empty boxes were left in the van and the vice president joked, “Should I carry the empty ones just for the camera?”

{snip}

This post has been updated with news about Pence’s press secretary testing positive for COV ID-19.

[Cousin Dupree]

1. The arrogance and ignorance is simply amazing.

[JI7]

2. How fucking gross is he that he does it because he was ordered to by Trump

[CentralMass]

3. They really are as stupid as they appear

[whathehell]

4. He did this AGAIN?

After admitting he was wrong to do it at the Mayo Clinic?

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Well, think about it.........

You can't "paper-train" a puppy overnight - especially if it's a lap-dog!

[MFGsunny]

6. Pants and his wife whom he calls "m.o.t.h.e.r" remind us that ...

... that due to their unforgivably dangerous and charlatan behavior, the use of MERELY those six letters in the name spelled out above constitutes only HALF a word!!!!

Yeah, Pants is another MF45-in-waiting-insult in my book!

#TRUTH

[PurgedVoter]

7. And in one case at least the boxes he was moving were empty.

At least he has a vague idea what someone with a soul would look like.

[WinstonSmith4740]

10. Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel caught a ration of shit over that.

Supposedly, the video was edited to leave out the part that showed Pence was "joking" about doing that. Ever notice whenever these guys get cornered by their own, irrefutable words, they were always joking?

[GarColga]

8. One odd thing I noticed

in the video of this, is that when Pence is pushing the cart he is lifting the rear wheels off the ground and pushing it like it's a wheelbarrow. Has this guy ever done any actual work?

[SWBTATTReg]

9. At a nursing home? THe disrespect shown to our seniors is disgusting and irresponsible.

And to boot, he's not even watching his own shop, so there is a possibility that he may have carried the virus into the nursing home facility via direct or indirect contact. Just how many people around Pence and rump are infected?