Guests at Trump National Golf Club disco party get coronavirus

[babylonsister]

Guests at Trump National Golf Club disco party get coronavirus
By Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times
2 hrs ago


LOS ANGELES — On a Sunday evening two weeks and an eternity ago, Susan Brooks rang in her seventh decade, disco style, in the upstairs ballroom at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes.

There were local politicos, hors d’oeuvres, dancing and a lingering, if not overriding, worry of the novel coronavirus, which on March 8 had yet to paralyze daily life in Southern California.

There was also, it turns out, the virus itself. Brooks learned a week later a party-goer had tested positive for COVID-19, the infection caused by the coronavirus. She soon tested positive herself, along with three other guests.

The party, which was first reported by the South Bay-based Easy Reader News, has sparked a minor firestorm in Rancho Palos Verdes, where Brooks is a fixture in local politics and was once the city’s mayor.

It underscores that in a pandemic, certain motions of daily life no more extraordinary and no less cherished than a birthday party can turn perilous, seeding a crowd with a sickness that blooms as the party breaks up, carrying it home, to work — everywhere.

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[MineralMan]

1. We will see similar things from the megachurches that are

insisting on holding mass services, despite the virus.

[rzemanfl]

3. The word "mass" in this context may not be the best word choice.

Just sayin'.

[MineralMan]

4. My choice of words was deliberate, since

Roman Catholic Churches have suspended their services to protect their parishioners. Not so the megachurches.

[rzemanfl]

7. The Roman Catholic Church is old money. The mega churches are parvenus. n/t

[MineralMan]

9. Speaking of parvenus, I give you Donald J. Trump.

I hope you'll accept my gift and store it somewhere safely.

[rzemanfl]

11. The cat litter goes in a small covered can in the garage until trash pickup day.

That'll be safe storage until tomorrow night, after that the gift will go in a nice, safe incinerator. Speaking religiously, it will be good practice for him.

[HotTeaBag]

18. Parvenus.

Had to look that one up - thank you for expanding my vocabulary.

Basically explains Instagram.

[gibraltar72]

16. Betting my local Ass of God is a petri dish.

[Cousin Dupree]

2. Karma.

[SoCalNative]

5. Tots and pears

and tiny violins

[central scrutinizer]

6. Rupert Murdoch called of his birthday party

Because of the virus while his network was pooh-poohing the Democratic hoax

[Crunchy Frog]

8. There was a birthday party in Connecticut that was even worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-westport-connecticut-party-zero.html

[MineralMan]

10. Yikes.

You should make that an Original Post to start a new thread. Shocking!

[genxlib]

12. From earlier today

Perhaps lost in the wee hours of the morning.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213163091

[MineralMan]

15. Ah, thank you.

I missed that.

[CaptYossarian]

13. "Hah-hah-hah-hah...Stayin' alive, Stayin' a-COUGH."

"Wow, I'm really burning up. I guess I won't survive."

Karma for all those virus deniers.

[Squinch]

14. Good.

[Roland99]

17. Sounds like the event in KY where McConnell and Rand were for Brett Kavanaughty

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. So when is Donny going to get it?